This is the first in a series of interviews with senior management and product heads at Tintra plc. The first edition is with CEO and Chief Visionary Richard Shearer where he sets out his insight into the mission and vision behind Tintra What is the mission…

We are proud to announce that the Tintra Foundation has raised an incredible $450,000 for UNICEF after auctioning a once-in-a-lifetime expedition at the UNICEF x LuisaViaRoma Winter Gala Ball in St Barth with @JohanErnst Nilson. The Tintra Foundation has raised an incredible $450,000 for UNICEF…

Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement in late 2021 that Facebook, Inc. was to be renamed ‘Meta’ triggered a seismic shift in the public’s perception of the metaverse. Previously, the term ‘metaverse’ had largely been the preserve of academics, theorists, media artists and tech-savvy industry insiders, who, with…

Discussions of the pandemic are starting to feel increasingly passé – but this sense that the worst is behind us, or that the issue is no longer worth discussing, doesn’t account for the ongoing global impacts of the pandemic, particularly on emerging markets (“EMs”). Or,…

The evolution of Web3 marks the beginning of a financial revolution across Southeast Asia, and its potential is boundless. In 1944, the Bretton Woods Agreement, an American-led system designed to govern monetary relations between participatory states, established the principles for international financial relations and provided…

The financial orthodoxy is predicated on the inequalities created by what is essentially neocolonial, Western-centric thinking. Simply based on geography, people and organisations are designated as ‘low-risk’ (typically this means ‘from somewhere similar and/or deferential to the U.S.’) or ‘high-risk’ (the opposite).This system is obviously…

Dr Vanessa Neumann, recently appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director for fast-growing Regulatory Technology company, Tintra PLC, discusses the challenge of bias and prejudice within the Western Financial System and why she thinks advanced technology and AI is key to overcoming red tape. Dr Neumann, you…

There is never a bad year to be wealthy  Last year, the World Bank announced that COVID-19 had “plunged the global economy into the worst recession since World War II”. Yet for the world’s 2,755 billionaires, the pandemic has resulted in one of the best…

MUSIC MATTERS Have you ever worked in an open-plan office only to be driven slowly mad by a colleague chatting or slurping their coffee? This is where music can help – it provides non-invasive and pleasurable feelings, and can help you ignore those irritating distractions.…

The first month of 2021 was certainly eventful!  The markets started on a strong footing after the Democrats won the Georgia runoff elections which triggered optimism of their ability to pass larger fiscal stimulus through congress to support the US economy.  The beginning of vaccine…

2020 was a year like few others that came before. Whilst there are acres of column inches on what the economic convulsions might mean to 202 and beyond, much of it is guesswork with little precedence from which to draw conclusions. Our writers take the…

After four years of damaging division that reached much further than the Gulf, the recent agreement which whilst still being ‘I’ dotted and ‘t’ crossed broadly has one winner, Qatar. One face-saver, Saudi Arabia. And one loser, the UAE, which finds itself in the cold.…