Retail recovery: online is the answer

15 October 2020: 2020 has not been kind to the retail sector, but there are opportunities for those that embrace online platforms.

Recovery: the future of the UAE lies in diversification

8 October 2020: The United Arab Emirates, like the rest of the world, is re-imagining its economy post-COVID. What might the UAE economy look like once we turn a corner? Increasingly diverse is the answer.

Cyprus: a post-Brexit stepping stone for fund managers?

7 October 2020: The Cyprus funds industry has been described as Europe’s newest investment fund hotspot. Andreas Yiasemides, partner head of fund services at PwC Cyprus, outlines the opportunities the region can bring potential investors and fund managers.

A tech overhaul for hospitality

7 October 2020: Hospitality has been hit particularly hard for survival – new technology has been the only way to build back business.

Hutchison Ports navigates new market dynamics

30 September 2020: Ruth Tsim, Group CFO of Hutchison Ports – which has a presence across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas – talks to Insights about COVID, technology, the environment, freight flows and the movement of the vaccine by sea.

Keeping trade flowing post-Brexit: prosperity is co-dependent

25 September 2020: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is quite clear that the movement of cargo by air relies on open economies. However, it is also facing up to Brexit and conjuring with some huge questions.

Air freight, trade, COVID and the vaccine – plan plan plan

25 September 2020: For a century, global trade has been enabled by air transport. In 2020, COVID has made it tough for airlines to deliver on their promise to shippers. Nevertheless, they have done so.

Foreign direct investment is high on Cyprus’s rebuild agenda

25 September 2020: All countries are counting the cost of pandemic and trying to understand the role trade will play in recovery. For some, foreign direct investment is the answer. Cyprus is a case in point.

Cyprus faces up to pandemic and Brexit

25 September 2020: Stavros Pantzaris, Partner and Chairman of the Board at EY Cyprus, says that Cyprus’s economy is battling through the impacts of pandemic and is squaring up to Brexit.

Port of Rotterdam: “every Brexit is a hard Brexit”

22 September 2020: It was no good making assumptions. The Port of Rotterdam had to prepare for no UK/EU trade agreement early and now, with just a few weeks to go, it has already built a community of consensus, through stakeholder buy-in, to its new procedures.

Why Cyprus is Europe’s new investment fund hotspot

17 September 2020: Alkis Hajittofis, executive director and head of portfolio management Resolute Investment Management a leading Cyprus-based alternative Investment Fund Manager, shares his insights on benefits and opportunities within the Cyprus funds industry.

Recovery? Let’s build back differently

14 September 2020: ‘Building back better’ is all very noble but delivering ’better’ is hard to imagine. Ceri Humphrey is Finance Director at engineering and construction firm VolkerFitzpatrick and has very clear ideas what this could mean.

How should we account for the vulnerable?

11 September 2020: If this pandemic has taught us anything, it is that human beings are more vulnerable than we often think and that the human condition is relevant to business success or failure. So how do we account for the vulnerable?

Business spotlight: COVID brings productivity into sharp focus

20 August 2020: If we can restart the economy with the productivity gap in mind, we can recover stronger, according to Be the Business Director of Programmes Louise Sunderland.

Build Back Better: long-termism and invest in hydrogen

18 August 2020: John Horgan, former Deputy CEO for EMIA of global engineering firm AECOM, tells us what policy recommendations he would make based on his experience as a businessman and engineer.