A large percentage of CEOs believe that their current cybersecurity budget should increase to 40% of their total annual business budget. Recent global research of the EY Global Information Security Survey 2021 (https://www.ey.com/en_gl/ cybersecurity/cybersecurity-how-do-you-rise-above-the-waves-of-a-perfect-storm by Kris Lovejoy) showed that the forced shift of companies to teleworking in order not to reduce or interrupt their productivity …
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Evergrande Group: Will Destroy China?
Evergrande Real Estate Group or Evergrande Group, a real estate giant with 200,000 employees and 3.8m jobs indirectly dependent on its operations and with debts more than $300 billion, forced Fitch to downgrade the company to the CC investment grade it shows high probability default. Moody’s did the same the day before. The company is …
What Business Borrowing with ESG Criteria Means?
The pressure to put green development and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria at the heart of corporate decision-making has led to the creation of two new types of loans, Green Loans and Sustainability Linked Loans. The basic principles of both types of loans were created by the EU Loan Market Association. More specifically: In …
Climate Change the Greatest Threat to the Global Supply Chain from Global Pandemics – Business Strategies
In recent years, humanity has witnessed extreme climatic and environmental phenomena such as huge fires, terrible heat waves, long droughts, severe floods and heavy snowfalls and frosts, the appearance of which create fragmentation and fragmentation. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced countries around the world to adopt unprecedented situations of restricting the movement of people and …
Which Businesses Industries Will Win a Leading Role and Which Do Not During the Transition to Green Growth
The transition to the Green Economy will provoke chain reactions not only in the way energy is produced, stored, and channeled but also in the way that any type of activity will now be taxed. The EU is leading the way, followed by the US. China, realizing that if it does not implement the green …
Cities Around the World Choose Corporate PPAs Contracts
To support the development of a RES project requires a critical mass which can and should absorb the energy produced by it. This critical mass must be grouped and entered the green bilateral contracts (corporate PPAs) that are constantly gaining ground in the European and international electricity market. This critical mass is large and small …
Gardening Leave: Business Assistance in Modern Forms of Employment
Employment law in most EU member-countries adequately addresses the regulation of modern forms of employment, which became even more apparent during the pandemic. One of these provisions of the Employment legislation is the so-called “Gardening Leave”. Gardening leave describes the process when an employee leaving a job – having resigned or otherwise had their employment …
The Customer in the Business Focus
The successful fulfillment of the main corporate goal, which is the constantly successful distribution of products and services to the company’s customers, is reflected in the enhanced turnover of the company. At the core of this success is the continuous assurance and upgrading of an excellent customer experience. I am referring to the creation of …
Cybersecurity Tips For Businesses
A big shock to the Boards of Directors and CEOs of many companies is that they view the cybersecurity sector as exclusive to the CIO and the company’s technical department. Many companies have shaped their corporate technology into multiple levels of legacy systems that alone cannot meet the requirements of today and on them are …
Fintech Sector: Which Company will Lead?
The rapid development of technological innovation has created Big Bang situations in services of payment providers so that businesses are constantly in a race to technologically meet customer expectations. Fintech term appeared when the distinct boundaries between technology-media and telecommunications (TMT) and existing financial institutions ceased to exist. In the Fintech category are all those …
