CORPORATE DARWINISM and GIG economy

Nothing empowers a skilled worker like the option to walk out and take a better offer CORPORATE DARWINISM The obsolescence I have in mind was anticipated by Silicon Valley’s favourite economist, Ronald Coase. Back in 1937, a young Coase wrote “The Nature of the Firm”, calling attention to something strange: while corporations competed within a…

The Real Cost of an MBA and US ranking

The Real Cost of an MBA To figure out the true price of a business degree, you have to factor in the opportunity cost. After working for eight years in accounting and finance, most of it at PwC, Tully Brown knew it was time to deepen his business skills. So he did what a lot…

Bank digital credit risk management

Bank digital credit risk management To withstand new regulatory pressures, investor expectations, and innovative competitors, banks need to reset their value focus and digitize their credit risk processes. External and internal pressures are requiring banks to reevaluate the cost efficiency and sustainability of their risk-management models and processes. Some of the pressure comes, directly or…

High CEO Pay = Lower Stock Returns

High CEO Pay = Lower Stock Returns For any issue regarding your Board, Compensation Committee, or “C”suite ask to MALTAway “Companies that awarded their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) higher equity incentives had below-median returns.” This is how MSCI started a report on CEO compensation. The idea of awarding CEOs equity in the companies they oversee was…

BREXIT wrap up and actions

BREXIT wrap up and actions After a heated political campaign, voters in the United Kingdom decided by a slim margin, on June 23, to exit the European Union, leading to a change in government. Now that a new prime minister has taken over, the next big question looms: How will the UK and EU negotiate…

BITCOIN thoughtful considerations and feedback

It’s Not About the Technology, It’s About the Money The Bitcoin world is full of people who know nothing about economics or cryptography; they only know that they could have made millions if they had not sold at the bottom. These people tell themselves that they are redeemable, that Bitcoin is just the MySpace of…

CEO’s Guide to Navigating Brexit

CEO’s Guide to Navigating Brexit MALTAway advise you for Corporate and Assets Governance from a unique perspective offered in Malta inside EU and Commonwealth as well The Leave campaign’s victory, with a margin of 3.8 percentage points, has likely ushered in a protracted phase of uncertainty for the UK, EU, and global economies. A systemic shock…

New Crypto tech: risks, opportunities, solutions

New Crypto tech: risks, opportunities, solutions with Colored Coin By Anton Golub, Likke Corp The financial system architecture has grown organically over the last decades – individual steps of settlement of financial transactions have been computerized, but the workflow remained unchanged as if processing of transactions is still done manually. That implies the delivery and settlement…

Median Compensation figures in US

Median Compensation figures in US A study from credit-repair companyCreditRepair.com looked at the median income of Americans over the past 60 years. Findings revealed that the highest median income is held by 35- to 44-year-olds, followed by 45- to 54-year-olds. But the study also found that age isn’t the only thing that affects how much…

A trust, collaboration, sharing MACHINE: the Impact of the Blockchain Goes Beyond Financial Services

The Impact of the Blockchain Goes Beyond Financial Services, a trust, collaboration, sharing MACHINE MALTAway is your way to Corporate & Assets Governance, World Class, MALTA, Worldwide The technology most likely to change the next decade of business is not the social web, big data, the cloud, robotics, or even artificial intelligence. It’s the blockchain,…