May 3, 2022Burkhan’s Tempus Network leads GMEX Group investment round● Strategic investment and partnership to jointly develop a range of platforms and projects in innovative digital financial services, commodities and sustainability markets in MENA ● Harnesses GMEX’s MultiHub platform, integrating traditional and decentralized finance London, Washington and UAE, May 3rd 2022 — Tempus USA Inc. (‘Tempus Network’), a wholly…Blockchain4 min readBlockchain4 min read
Jan 4, 20225 Digital, Crypto and Blockchain predictions for 2022At the start of January 2021 I made my top 5 predictions for the digital, crypto and blockchain space. The results were very accurate. I briefly recap those and try to repeat that feat with my key predictions for 2022: 2021 Predictions recap Capital markets accelerate the move from analogue…Blockchain5 min readBlockchain5 min read
Jul 4, 2021The Next Futuristic Evolution in Exchange Matching Engines for Digital Trading VenuesBeing a financial exchange services provider has rarely been as hard or competitive as it is today. …Digital4 min readDigital4 min read
Jun 6, 2021The UK still has a chance to be a digital finance pioneer post-Brexit, but will we seize it?Hirander Misra, CEO of GMEX Group co-authored this article with Sean Kiernan, CEO of Greengage (previously DAG Global). In 2018, GMEX Group and Greengage published a report and article highlighting “The ‘Digital Opportunity’ Of Brexit”. …Digital Transformation3 min readDigital Transformation3 min read
Apr 14, 2021African Fintechs collaborate to interlink mobile money and digital assetsSECDEX and KOINON jointly foster B2C & B2B payments convergence & digital assets exchange Seychelles, Nairobi 14th April 2021. The Seychelles-based Securities, Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (SECDEX), and KOINON, the global Digital Coin and Token based payment platform, are pleased to announce a collaboration to foster the intersection of African…Payments5 min readPayments5 min read
Feb 4, 2021What’s next? — Ecosystem-as-a-Service (EsaaS)Move over SaaS, PaaS and EaaS Fintech models I recall when I started my career at Reuters in 2006, I was given in my joining pack a Reuters dictionary of abbreviated terms and their actual meaning. I quickly realised beyond the jargon of IT phrases, there was a whole new…Fintech4 min readFintech4 min read
Feb 4, 20215 Digital, Crypto and Blockchain predictions for 2021At the start of January 2020 I made top 5 predictions in the digital, crypto and blockchain space and evaluated how these had played out at the start of January 2020. The results were very accurate. I try to repeat that feat with my key predictions for 2021: Capital markets…Blockchain5 min readBlockchain5 min read
May 25, 2020Kick starting Economies Post COVID-19By Hirander Misra, CEO of GMEX Group and Asad Sultan, CEO of Deutsche Malayan Ventures In its April World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects a decline in global growth in 2020 of -3 percent. This is a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points from January 2020, a major…Covid-194 min readCovid-194 min read
May 20, 2020The crisis forces the Puppet Master to cut loose the puppetsBy Asad Sultan, CEO of Deutsche Malayan Ventures and Hirander Misra, CEO of GMEX Group Will the current economic crisis result in changes to the economic establishment as we know it, so that a new order is established fuelled by democratised digitally enabled innovation? …Covid-194 min readCovid-194 min read
Apr 28, 2020The Investor, the SME and COVID-19: Time for the Stock Exchange to change or estrangeWhile the COVID-19 pandemic poses a significant threat to mainstream industry and commerce, it will be even more devastating to Small-to-Medium Enterprises (‘SMEs’), as a large number may not survive the economic impact of the crisis. …Covid-197 min readCovid-197 min read
