The European Blockchain Partnership Finds Europe Getting Serious About Distributed Ledger Technology
October 14th, 2018 – On April 10, 2018, 21 EU member states and Norway signed up to create the European Blockchain Partnership. Including the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and Ireland, they committed themselves to “cooperate in ...
Southeast Asia is Ripe For a Cashless Revolution
12th October, 2018 – Southeast Asia’s rapidly rising internet and smartphone penetration rates means that cashless solutions will make a significant impact on the region’s financial ecosystem. Thanks to new FinTech advancements, we’re now bett...
Using tech to unlock markets for Africa SMEs
14th October, 2018 – African spending is projected to reach $6.7 trillion by 2030, with some reports indicating a $2.1 trillion consumer spending projection by 2025. While it is exciting to share the continent’s potential, it still faces many hurd...
Accompanying European SMEs on their Open Innovation Journeys
9th October, 2018 – Within INSPIRE (standing for Integrated Support of oPen Innovation pRofessionalization initiative), a Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission under H2020, we have investigated in depth Open Innovation (0...
Bank of America (BoA) Sees Blockchain Market Growing to $7 Billion
5th October, 2018 – According to a recent report from analysts at Bank of America (BoA), the blockchain market could be getting a lot bigger. CNBC reported that BoA thinks that blockchain could take over two percent of corporate servers’ computing...
A workforce boom makes SMEs more important than ever in Africa
21th September, 2018 – Forty-nine countries have signed up so far this year to join the African Continental Free Trade Area, which is the latest contribution to a perennial debate: how to create more jobs on the African continent. The need to remove...
FNB receives 50 million US-dollars to accelerate SME development
8th September, 2018 – First National Bank (FNB) has received 50 million US-dollars from the DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft to deploy towards small and medium enterprise (SME) development in South Africa. DEG is a development...
Millions of Dollars Saved by SMEs and Individuals using Ripple in Emerging Economies
19th September, 2018 – As economies mature and as the majority of world population thaw to embrace new technologies, Ripple is placing themselves as a strategic position to facilitate the growing global remittance and inflows. Driving this explosive gro...
How technology is enabling SMEs
5th September, 2018 – From 2007 to 2014, trade by ASEAN nations grew by a value of nearly US$1 trillion to a total of US$2.5 trillion. A quarter (24 percent) of ASEAN’s total trade was within the region, followed by trade with China (14 percent), ...
Cloud Computing Market in Latin America: Increasing Number of SME’s Creates Inroads for Growth
10th September, 2018 – Rapid advances towards digital economy have encouraged enterprises in Latin America to embrace cloud computing solutions such as IaaS for enhanced functionality and ease of operations, thereby maneuvering growth in cloud compu...
