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SNGLR.NFT goes Metaverse – Our first Gallery Exhibition is Online
After 1.5 years of collecting the finest and best NFT art around the world - we finally did it: Our online metaverse art gallery is live. Take a walk and get inspired 🙂 [...]
Art Basel NFT Event with SNGLR.NFT
WE HELD A CASUAL, RELAXED AND OPEN-MINDED APERO FOR “VERY INSPIRING PEOPLE (VIP)” HELD AT KASERNE BASEL DURING THE ART BASEL WEEK. THE EVENT WAS CO CREATED VIA AN ECOSYSTEM OF AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS IN THE [...]
Interview in Fintechnews.ch: Fintech Influencer Switzerland Interview Series
I had the pleasure and honour to be interviews by one of the key protagonists of the Swiss Fintech Ecosystem, Christian König, with his news site fintechnews.ch Here is the link to the original [...]
The GBBC meets for the first time with the Crypto Valley in Zurich, Switzerland
The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) is the largest industry association for the blockchain technology and digital assets community. Launched in Davos in 2017, GBBC is a Swiss-based non-profit, with more than 500 institutional members, [...]
Ph.D. honoris causa Award Ceremony for Vitalik Butarin @ University of Basel, Switzerland
The Swiss town of Basel hosts the oldest university in Switzerland, the University of Basel, or short "unibas". At this premier academic institute, the WWZ is an economics and business powerhouse, with the likes of [...]
Financial services: could digital pave the way for a new, client-centric model?
by Daniel Diemers & Fred Gregaard Digital didn’t have a lasting impact on most financial services the first time around in the late 1990s, but now it’s definitely here to stay. The challenge for the [...]
Redrawing the lines: FinTech’s growing influence (global fintech study 2017)
Our new Global FinTech survey is out. Results from many respondents around the world show that 82% of global banks, insurers and asset managers plan to increase their partnerships with FinTech companies in the [...]
Digital Shift: In Blockchain we trust
Digital Shift is an innovative discussion forum for digital Transformation and digital ecosystem accelerator based in Zurich, Meeting regularily and discussing latest trends and topics in this area with a select group of invitees. https://digital-shift.org/vertrauen/ (in german) In [...]
Fit For Growth: silver bullet for strategic cost management
Our new book "Fit For Growth" is out! Check it out. As a sequel to our fundamental approach to strategy - as descriped in Capabilities-driven Strategy (CDS) and Strategy That Works - "Fit For Growth" [...]
Taking Wealth Management Digital
In recent years, private banking and wealth management (PBWM) executives have been so busy staying abreast of new regulatory issues that most have understandably had little time to explore the latest developments in technology and [...]
Financial services: could digital pave the way for a new, client-centric model?
by Daniel Diemers & Fred Gregaard Digital didn’t have a lasting impact on most financial services the first time around in the late 1990s, but now it’s definitely here to stay. The challenge for the [...]
Connected Cars – how to move from A to B in the future (and maybe do some banking in between)
It was a wonderful indian summer day in Boston, Massachusetts back in 1999, sailing boats were battling it out on Charleston River, joggers lined the river banks, and many a Red Sox fan was silently dreaming and hoping that [...]
PSD2 – a strategic regulation and standard for open banking is rolling at the horizon
A new regulatory wave is coming. and we're not talking about that little 2-feet kiddy swell, that let's you wonder if it's even worth getting wet - PSD2 is coming with a roar, an impressive [...]
How InsurTech is reinventing insurance
Our 2016 global Fintech report has just been released with a particular focus on InsurTech. Yes, yet another -Tech, after RegTech, etc. but it was about time FinTech reaches the Insurance industry. While all and [...]
“Sink or Swim” – PwC Strategy&’s latest Global Wealth Management Study
PwC Strategy&’s report, ‘Sink or swim: why wealth management can’t afford to miss the digital wave’, finds the sector is one of the least tech-literate of the financial services industry, and what’s currently [...]
Blurred Lines: How FinTech is Shaping Financial Services
We've asked 544 respondents, principally Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Heads of Innovation, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and top-tier managers involved in digital and technological transformation across 46 countries... ...and this is what they said: Read [...]
DeNovo: Real-Time FinTech Industry Analysis Platform
Finally, detailed, accurate and curated real-time industry #fintech Analysis is available - new Video out that shows the cool features of PwC Strategy&'s new global digital strategy & Fintech platform #DeNovo I've seen it life and [...]
Strategy that Works (by Paul Leinwand and Ces Mainardi)
If you like strategy books and (hopefully) read CDS Capabilities-Driven Strategy from the same authors, you will definitely like this one. Did you know: 50% of executives have no confidence in their own strategy. (and [...]
GCC Private Banks Respond to Young, Female Clientele
by Bloomberg Businessweek Middle East Dominic Dudley With more women and 'Generation Ys' becoming clients, private banks are having to respond to new demands Once a year, Azeemeh Zaheer, a vice president of Kuwaiti-owned Gatehouse [...]
Basel III: A silver lining for Middle East banks
by Dr. Daniel Diemers, Dr. Peter Gassmann, and Jihad K. Khalil (Strategy& Viewpoint, December 2014) Basel III forces regional banks to take a hard look at their capital allocation and deploy their capital more strategically [...]
Bitcoin future in UAE uncertain due to lack of regulation
Published in The National, UAE (link) Author: Linday Carroll October 25, 2014 DUBAI // Efforts to promote the use of Bitcoin in the UAE have stalled amid uncertainty over how it is regulated here and [...]
Flashback on X-2014: Exclusive Interview with Dr.Science/Atlantis & Pat Boon/CFA
diemers.net proudly presents an exclusive interview with Dr. Science of Atlantis and Pat Boon of the CFA How do you rate this year´s scene party in the Netherlands? A fat slab of sizzling Spare Ribs [...]
‘Sir Lukes’ thinking outside the box? (Financial Times – Letters)
Link: Financial Times September 24, 2010 3:25 am ‘Sir Lukes’ thinking outside the box? From Dr Daniel Diemers. Sir, The unexpected and tragic death of Martin Lukes (Business Life, September 23) is [...]
Growing more detailed: Private banking in the GCC is diversifying
September 8, 2014 by Daniel Diemers and Walid Boustany Article published in: The Executive Magazine, Lebanon (Link) This article is part of an Executive special report on wealth management and private banking. Read more stories as [...]
Global Wealth Management Study 2014-2015
The most recent in a growing body of wealth insights by Booz & Company looks at the prospects for the global wealth management industry in 2014/15. According to the study, assets under management have seen [...]
smart sensors & big data
The arpanet, or in more contemporary words, internet slash world wide web has always been about security. This was the case in the 80´ies, and it is more than ever so today. Many do still [...]
Relaunch of diemers.net
Hello and Welcome traveller. It was sometime in the early nineties, when HTML became popular and i decided to dust off my old programming skills in old school languages such as Fortran, Assembler, Basic, Pascal, [...]
Cyborg individualization: the human being of the 21st century (1999)
Cyborg individualization: the human being of the 21st century The human being as a cyborg in the 21st century is a "prosthetized being" that looks better and can do more than its counterpart that emerged [...]