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Galloping across the digital bridge: Rural Asia’s Fire Horse transformation
  • 12 Mar 2026

A digital revolution in rural Asia is rapidly accelerating and creating durable growth opportunities across essential services, platforms and infrastructure.

How data centers (and energy) are impacting AI risk
  • 12 Mar 2026

Effective AI governance incorporates material elements of data center risk and resilience, ensuring sites can withstand operating costs, energy constraints and downtime exposures.

Apex Group Unveils New Research on AI Adoption Across Private Credit
  • 12 Mar 2026

Apex Group has published AI-powered private credit, a new research report examining how artificial intelligence's being adopted across private credit operations

From Memes to Themes: Addressing Emergent Risk
  • 12 Mar 2026

The meme stock craze was a reminder that risk isn’t a static concept. It evolves with global events, technology, and policy changes. Traditional risk metrics are useful, but they often fail to capt...

Managing The Quantum Threat to Blockchains
  • 12 Mar 2026

No longer just theoretical, quantum computers pose important questions for blockchains. In our report, Citi: Quantum Threat - The Trillion-Dollar Security Race Is On, we highlight how rapid advance...

The investment opportunity in technology
  • 12 Mar 2026

Technology stands as a key driver of growth, productivity and innovation. We highlight semiconductors and energy names as standout areas for investors within the broader tech landscape.

Why the Software Sell-off Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
  • 12 Mar 2026

March 12, 2026 Why the Software Sell-off Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story The rise of AI has sown doubt within public equity markets about the software industry’...

Geopolitical shocks: Key Middle East ESG implications for responsible investors
  • 12 Mar 2026

The current escalation in the Middle East has once again highlighted how geopolitical shocks can translate into material ESG risks that stretch well beyond short-term market volatility.

What Middle East Conflict Could Mean for the Global Economy
  • 11 Mar 2026

The size and duration of the oil-price shock are key variables in determining the ultimate impact.  The war in Iran is the latest in a long series of shocks with the potential to disrupt economies...