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AI-Fuelled Demand Powers Europe’s Electrification Champions
The “picks-and-shovels” trade is alive and well on this side of the Atlantic. Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, Schneider...
Yiwang Lim
11 hours ago2 min read


AI-Fuelled Demand Powers Europe’s Electrification Champions
The “picks-and-shovels” trade is alive and well on this side of the Atlantic. Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, Schneider...
Yiwang Lim
11 hours ago2 min read


Rethinking IRR: Understanding PE's Key Metric
The headline numbers that won’t die KKR still touts a 25.5 % gross “since-inception” IRR and Apollo waves a 24 % net badge. Impressive –...
Yiwang Lim
1 day ago2 min read


Britain’s Fintech Stumble: Can VRP Help Us Catch Up?
London used to set the global pace in payments: Faster Payments (2008) gave us near-instant transfers years before the US FedNow pilot,...
Yiwang Lim
3 days ago3 min read


The great climate pull-back — but is it really the end of green finance?
Over the past quarter we’ve seen a procession of household-name banks temper, defer or ditch their headline net-zero targets. HSBC has...
Yiwang Lim
4 days ago3 min read


Stay Invested, Diversify Your Bonds
Another burst of tariff headlines has knocked the S&P 500 2.6% lower on the week and pushed the 30-year US Treasury yield back through 5%...
Yiwang Lim
4 days ago2 min read


GM’s Battery Gambit
Quick take GM is already the largest EV-battery cell maker in North America and targets a further $30/kWh cost cut in 2025 via cheaper...
Yiwang Lim
5 days ago3 min read


OpenAI’s $6.5B Bet on Jony Ive: A Strategic Play to Redefine AI Hardware
The tech world is buzzing after OpenAI’s landmark acquisition of Sir Jony Ive’s AI hardware startup, io, in a $6.5 billion all-equity...
Yiwang Lim
6 days ago3 min read


Builder.ai’s Insolvency & What it Means
London-based Builder.ai, once a $1.6 bn “no-code” darling backed by Microsoft and the Qatar Investment Authority, has filed for...
Yiwang Lim
May 203 min read


Why AI Won’t Save Junior Bankers From the Grind (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
Slightly different to my usual posts, but still a topic I find very interesting & relevant... The Financial Times’ recent coverage of AI...
Yiwang Lim
May 193 min read
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