Essays

For a long time, competition in the market has passed from the technological to the social and cultural plane, and it seems that this is the most awkward stage of development for financial technologies. A decade ago, FinTech solutions brought with them additional value for people, simplifying processes and providing new opportunities for making payments and tracking funds. (more…)

Legal services consultancy Altman Weil pointed out in a recent survey that law firms are not immune to the same quest for customer knowledge that all businesses must address. Namely, are firms delivering what customers actually want? (more…)

Today, there is almost no anonymity online. Many people strive for the opposite, in fact — total publicity as it concerns their professional goals, copyrighted materials, and intellectual property. In our contemporary world with new value systems, it just doesn’t make sense to hide your intellectual property. The very fact of stopping a new idea from implementation doesn’t make sense. Perhaps, it could even be considered a crime in the future. However, we aren’t speaking to the abolition of the copyright or its infringement. (more…)