Digital Nomads On the Steppe
In three months, on June 8, the world will gather in Astana for the Astana International Forum. The forum aims to bring people together to “chart a new way forward” through “greater dialogue” and to define “clear and actionable solutions” to the “challenges threatening our way of life.” Quite ambitious! The Astana International Forum follows…
Every Great Leader Needs a Polynesia
This year’s Astana Finance Days has been another success, with a diversity of views and cornucopia of themes. Everything from Mining Geology, to Empowerment of Women and Monetising the Fourth Industrial Revolution (or whatever the post-pandemic economy will come to be called). Once again, it showed that Kazakhstan and the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC)…
The Dollar Mirage
Some years ago in Dubai, out to dinner, the barman explained how lucky I was because tomorrow all the drinks prices will be doubling. The place wasn’t cheap, or very good, so I asked why. “Simple” the barman said, they only had half as many customers as the year before, so to make the same…
AIFC meets the Hongqi
Two days ago one of the world’s leading regulators called me to talk about the rise of LawTech – the successor, in many ways, to two decades of FinTech. LawTech is technology designed to enhance access to justice and make the law something that serves citizens, not the other way around. Terrifying lawyers and law…
