Author: Professor Brian Scott-Quinn.You may not be aware of this but it is a fact that Volkswagen AG has been looking at scenarios in which it no longer has more than a niche place in the automative world! Why else would it have decided to put €1bn into a small car manufacturer with a commitment to increase this to €5bn - and even more so when this...

Peer to peer lending and borrowing (P2P), or more particularly, consumer P2P, is not dead, it has just been beaten up by bad actors, bandwagon jumpers and poor execution! In 2009 the notion for P2P was that "technology would take the strain" and it would beat banks at their own game. Unfortunately, that promise has not been delivered by many. Poor ...

 There are a number of obvious hurdles like regulation, prudential requirements, experienced workforce but gone are the days that "technology" is one of those hurdles.You used to see eye-watering sums of money spent on technology just to get to launch, only to discover six months later, the tech that you thought you needed, only does half the ...