We have had several posts by banking experts on what happened with SVB. I was reading and researching over the last few days and I picked up threads by @macroalf and, @ecommerceshares, @fabiusmercurius on Twitter, which are enlightening- these accou...
Amazon is aiming to take a larger share of the US online grocery market, estimated to be worth over USD 1.16 Trillion. To do this, they are optimizing their Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh formats. Despite placing growth plans on hold, CEO Andy Jassy ha...
As I heard the stories about the stock exchange and the (over)valuation of the Adani business, I was reminded of my first job after engineering. I was sent as a fresh-faced engineer to the Ahmedabad Stock Exchange (ASE) as part of the team that was s...
What has resulted from the research is a framework that founders may be used to evaluate l1/l2 blockchains to develop their fintech/insurtech solutions. The framework could be converted to a decision-making framework on a spreadsheet for those inclin...
How much will it cost to build the Metaverse (the next generation of the Internet or Web4, as I call it, for clarity)?Photographer: Hello I'm Nik | Source: UnsplashThis is a question that I was pondering when I chanced upon this Open letter from Alti...
Much has been written about what happened to FTX, and more will be written in the coming days and months. I decided to do some research and created a friendly slide show for you to go through. If the #ftx deal goes through, one company would own a si...
Storm clouds may be ahead for Buy-Now Pay-later companies in the MENA region: These are the business drivers to watch in 2023-24: 1) Cost of Funds going higher: In 2022, lending rates pegged to the USD have increased. This applies to BNPLs that do...
A few weeks back, I wrote about creating an online resource (in a comment below) to connect startups to co-founders in the MENA region. The idea is to create an online resource. The feedback was mixed- some of you wanted an online resource like this....
I read the book Poor Charlie's Almanack in 2020/21. It cost me more than a few dollars to get it shipped from the US to the UAE, and I remember wiping it clean using Clorox when I got it (don't judge me, it was in the middle of the pandemic!). I need...
When incumbent banks start neo banks, it can be tricky to make it work. Now complicate it further by launching a Neo bank in a new geography- one that is away from your home base. However, the US-headquartered JP Morgan Chase (called Chase in the UK)...
