Pulse: Industry


Nepal's urban water crisis

There is an ongoing water crisis in Nepal’s urban areas, and it is mainly man-made. From 2000 to 2012, Nepal’s urban population with access to improved water source suffered a continuous and outstanding drop from 94.2 percent to 90.3 percent.

Nepal's urban water crisis

There is an ongoing water crisis in Nepal’s urban areas, and it is mainly man-made. From 2000 to 2012, Nepal’s urban population with access to improved water source suffered a continuous and outstanding drop from 94.2 percent to 90.3 percent.

What Would Einstein Do? Embedded Dilemmas in Disrupting Markets

Earlier this month, Ford CEO Mark Fields made two head-scratching announcements. Ford acquired San Francisco-based Chariot, a popular crowd-sourced shuttle-van service that uses algorithms to adjust routes and increase transit efficiency. The company simultaneously announced a partnership with Motivate, the nation’s largest bikeshare company, to implement a 10-fold expansion of the Bay area’s bikeshare program under the “Ford GoBike” banner.
 

Payments Milestones

Marketplace Banking: FinTech Articles of the Week

Banks are locked in a traditional structure of proprietary and legacy, and they strongly wish to keep it that way. The problem is more and more banking operations are increasingly done in marketplaces that level the playing field for new entrants, writes banking consultant Chris Skinner in "The banking bazaar and the bizarre banker."

Epi(c) Pharmaceutical Market Failure

It was hard not to feel sorry for Mylan CEO Heather Bresch as she sat for an extended CNBC interview on the morning of August 25th. Clearly on the hot seat, Bresch tried to explain Mylan’s stratospheric EpiPen price increases. Despite limited product improvement, the retail price for EpiPen 2-Pak®has skyrocketed from $94 in 2007 when Mylan acquired the product to $608 today, a 550% increase.
 

China Must Continue to Grow its Futures Markets - from Leo Melamed

I am sharing a report written by Leo Melamed, Chairman Emeritus of the CME Group, you can find the report by clicking here.

Backing Banking?

I am generally gung-ho on banks and their need to embrace FinTech partners and on the need for FinTech firms to build the systems that can help smaller banks compete. The record, yet rather paltry, $185 million fine levied on Wells Fargo for fraudulently opening accounts to meet sales targets gives some support to that thesis, even though it's another black-eye for the industry.

Rankings and Reactions: CMS Launches Star Ratings for Hospitals

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves.” [1]  ~William Shakespeare
 

Free Lunch: Where did all the productivity go? - My Comment

Here is my comment on Martin Sandbu's  Free Lunch: Where did all the productivity go? And what would it take to make it grow again?

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