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Digital Disruption of Finance Services Will Change Banking as We Know It

Technology is changing the financial services sector and disrupting longstanding business models While digital services will become so thoroughly a part of banking and finance, from payments to philanthropy, offline approaches will still be needed to provide trustworthy partners for artificial intelligence and big-data algorithms Find more information about the World Economic Forum here:http://wef.ch/amnc15 Dalian, …

Asia’s Future Success Depends on Business Leadership and Multilateral Cooperation

Business plays an important leadership role in fostering cooperation in Asia Multilateral institutions provide mechanisms for participation of all countries Role for trade and industry federations to resolve cross-border tensions Over 1,700 participants from 90 countries are taking part in the World Economic Forum’s ninth Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People’s Republic …

Despite Economic Slowdown, China Strongly Committed to Green growth

China’s political leaders are strongly committed to green growth and are focusing on renewable energy technologies China’s renewable energy industry has seen rapid growth, which is set to continue The country is a “world leader” in green coal technologies Over 1,700 participants from 90 countries are taking part in the World Economic Forum’s ninth Annual …

World Economic Forum Honours 132 Companies as Global Growth Companies

World Economic Forum Honours 132 Companies as Global Growth Companies 132 of the world’s fastest-growing companies have been invited to join the Global Growth Companies community at the Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions. Companies are nominated on the strength of their potential to become global economic leaders and drawn from a broad spectrum of …

36 Innovative Companies Recognized as World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers

36 companies celebrated for pioneering technologies, which hold promise of transforming business and society Technology Pioneers are selected annually by a high-level selection committee. Since 2000, more than 550 companies have been selected as Technology Pioneers Read their profiles and download the report at http://www.weforum.org/techpioneers New York, USA, 27 August 2013 – The World Economic Forum announced today …