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2025 Was the Reset Year for Finance. Are We Ready for 2026?

2025 Was Not About Growth. It Was About Correction. If 2024 was the year of stabilisation, then 2025 was the year the global financial system...

December Fashion and the Global Economics of Seasonal Consumption

December is not just a shopping period. It is an international economic pulse that nations plan for. When I look at December from a...

Black Friday And The Wardrobe You Never Wore: A Stylist’s Honest Take

The Illusion of Saving Every year, Black Friday arrives with the same promise that this time you will save money. And every year, I sit...

ESG at a Crossroads: A Finance Leader’s View on Navigating New Regulatory Pressures in the Middle East

How global ESG standards, IFRS sustainability disclosures, and UAE climate mandates are reshaping financial compliance and why SMEs must be part of the shift. As...

The AI Makeover of Finance – Three Years After ChatGPT

It’s November 2025, three years on since ChatGPT was released on the 30th of November 2022. Large Language Models (LLMs) are now part of...

Saudi banks expected to enter the Syrian market soon, Damascus’ finance minister reveals

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is moving toward launching a number of investment funds in multiple sectors within Syria, most notably the Elaf Fund, with an...

The AI Governance Gap: A Finance Leader’s Wake-Up Call

In August, I wrote that cybersecurity’s journey from an IT concern to a board-level issue was inevitable. A few months later, I find myself...

90% of Compliance Work Can Now Be Automated — Is RegTech Killing the Old Finance Playbook?

In the fast-moving financial world of 2025, one thing is clear: manual compliance is dead weight. With regulators tightening oversight and criminals evolving faster...

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Info Edge commits Rs 250 crore to new B8 Fund I to back growth-stage tech startups in India

Info Edge has approved a commitment of up to...

Scoop confirmed: AI platform MeltPlan raises $10 million to make construction boring

MeltPlan, a pre-construction AI platform, today said it has...

Indian agentic AI startup Gushwork raises $9 million to expand engineering teams

Gushwork, an agentic AI startup raised a $9 million...

Nvidia forecasts upbeat sales on AI chip demand, talks up long-term prospects 

SAN FRANCISCO: Chipmaker Nvidia forecast first-quarter revenue above market estimates...

IIT Madras alumnus-founded deeptech startup Tattvam AI raises $1.7 million in funding

Tattvam AI, a deeptech startup building AI systems to...