Applying for venture capital funding is a critical step for businesses looking to grow and expand. It can be both a daunting and exciting process, with the potential to bring in large amounts of capital that could be the key to a company’s success. However, there are several important considerations that every business should understand...
Do governments have the capacity to foster innovation? Truly, governments can and do play a critical role in encouraging innovation, by actively creating new markets, rather than just regulating them. Data from all over the world account for billions of public-sector dollars that have flowed toward downstream applied research, even providing early-stage financing for companies....
The first half of 2022 resulted in a major reversal of capital markets activity in Europe and globally, characterised by significant socio-economic and geopolitical developments. Inflationary pressures, exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, combined with monetary tightening and fears of recession, have led to an increase in the cost of capital and created a...
In recent years the government has introduced new instruments to bring the private wealth closer to the needs of Italian SMEs. Among these tools, the Budget Act 2017 has introduced the long-term individual saving plans (the so called Piani Individuali di Risparmio, PIR). Their objective is to channel family savings into long-term investment schemes to...
When the world economies move towards a change in macroeconomic and geo-political fundamentals and, in particular, when such changes lead to a generalized inflationary environment, with the rise in the prices of common utilities such as energy, businesses and citizens are the first to be affected in the short term. This raises issues concerning national...
The alternative investment sector known as Private Debt, which until recent years represented a segment often in competition with the banking channel, in 2021 recorded levels of fund raising and investment never seen in the last decade. And this happened not only in Italy, but also worldwide. But in 2022, with high inflation and raising...
Global investors demand for ESG products continues to provide opportunity for organic AUM growth. Recent surveys indicate that client demand continues to be a catalyst for investment managers’ consideration of sustainability investment metrics in their decision-making processes. At their current growth rate, ESG-mandated assets (defined as professionally managed assets in which ESG issues are considered...
Could a 25-minute statement by Britain’s new chancellor of the exchequer spook the financial market up to urgent step in by the Bank of England to restore market functioning? This is what happened earlier this week on UK gilt markets, and what put UK under global attention for instability risks ever since Brexit. Someone was...
To date, digitisation in the EU is uneven, although there are signs of convergence. While the frontrunners have remained unchanged, there is a substantial group of Member States that cluster around the EU average. Importantly, most of the Member States that had a lower level of digitisation 5 years ago, are progressing at a faster...
The first half of this year has delivered several adverse shocks that dramatically raised inflation and significantly weighed on growth. Markets have undergone a hawkish repricing as investors weigh the possibility of lower growth in a new era of quantitative tightening. This is further complicated by the potential consequences of higher interest rates with unprecedented...
