The rowing champion, 48, who met the American financier, 35, at Cambridge University in 2018, confirmed the couple are set to wed in an announcement in The Times.
Lone Fonss Schroder, CEO of Concordium, on the Disruptive Potential of Self-Sovereign Digital Identity
Enterprise adoption of blockchain technology has, so far, proven to be relatively patchy. Despite the best efforts of software firms such as ConsenSys to entice companies into using public platforms like Ethereum, most have tended towards closed or permissioned networks like IBM’s (NYSE: IBM). While these offer some benefits, they miss the full security potential of a truly decentralized network. According to a 2019 study from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, this partially explains why companies aren’t seeing the expected benefits.
However, the team behind Concordium believes it has pinpointed one of the most significant barriers to enterprise blockchain adoption – compliance. The lack of ability to identify counterparties to a transaction, along with legacy challenges such as slow throughput, could prevent organizations from using public blockchains. Conc
Nine Leadership Lessons 2020 Gave Us
Our experts reflect on the ways leaders can support their teams in times of uncertainty and change.
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As we approach these final days of 2020, a year that has tested our society like few others in recent memory, it’s safe to say that many people are looking forward to putting this year behind them. However, 2020 has also shed light on so many systemic issues facing individuals and companies across the globe that we would be remiss if we didn’t reflect on the lessons that we can take into the future.
With that in mind, we reached out to
Secretary-General Appoints Hiro Mizuno of Japan Special Envoy on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Hiro Mizuno of Japan as Special Envoy on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments. He is a financial executive and former Executive Management Director and CIO of the Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan.
With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting societies and economies at their core, the Special Envoy will support the Secretary-General s advocacy and engagement in global public-private dialogue to encourage action in new and unprecedented ways to shift public and private investments towards the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. As highlighted through the Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 Initiative, it is vital to increase the pool of sustainable finance, with particular attention to removing bottlenecks to blended finance and other innovative fin