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Online platforms set to continue shoring up the gambling industry
In many ways 2019 was not a vintage year for the gambling industry. In Britain, which has long been a strong gambling market, the gross gambling yield (GGY) – that’s the total income minus the total value of their payouts – for
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How Bingo Came in From The Cold
Think of bingo and it’s highly likely that the image that first springs to mind is of a smoky, old fashioned hall packed with women of a certain age whose attention is focused on a caller announcing the numbers as
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UNOG on Perception Change Project (PCP): What Does the PCP Do for SDGs?
Negative news dominating the headlines leads people to believe that the state of the World is worsening. This is a misconception. Positive developments related to global challenges are happening every day — so why aren’t these stories being told? The
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Ian Fletcher, Director IBM IBV: The Trust Economy – What’s My Data Worth?
How Do Organisations Ensure We Get a Fair Return? The driving force behind “stakeholder capitalism” – the theme of this year’s World Economic Forum meeting at Davos – is the conviction that businesses should balance the needs of all their
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Evan Harvey, Nasdaq: SDG Awareness and Action – A Report From the Global Exchange Community
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems by the year 2030, but progress has been slower than necessary and scattershot in impact. Certain SDGs tend to attract awareness and action from companies if
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Q&A with the Executive Secretary of the UNCDF: Judith Karl
How would you sum up in three single words what characterises your team at UNCDF? Innovative Nimble Trusted What are you trying to accomplish? We aim to make finance work for the poor. In the current global financial ecosystem, finance
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Alisher Sultanov, Energy Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan: There Must Be Conservation and Cooling in Uzbekistan
Driving from the airport to Uzbekistan’s ancient city of Bukhara, visitors can see a series of new residential buildings on the side of the road, evidence of the building boom currently underway in Uzbekistan. If you look closely, you can
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Ana Palacio: Europe on a Geopolitical Fault Line
Two months ago, in his address to the United Nations General Assembly, UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his fear that a “Great Fracture” could split the international order into two “separate and competing worlds,” one dominated by the United States
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Tadau’s Susanna Lim: CEO’s Vision of a Zero-emissions Future, with the Means and Drive to Achieve It
Malaysia’s Tadau Energy envisions a World without pollution, zero emissions, so that future generations can inherit a healthier planet and clean air. Susanna Lim is the founder and — since 2015 — CEO of Tadau Energy Sdn Tsb (TESB). She
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PwC Bermuda: New Tech and Cybercrime Top List of Concerns in Reinsurance Survey
The inability to deploy new technologies and the readiness to confront structural change top the list of risks — the banana skins — facing the global reinsurance industry. This is according to a biannual risk report by PwC. Entitled Reinsurance
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