Insights

The Middle East was at the centre of civilisation during the Bronze age, connecting trade from East to West in an integrated web of roads and ports, later being dubbed as the ‘silk roads’.

The first industrial revolution was sprung forward by great innovations in automation and machinery.

The history of cash is prone to disruptive events and like anything else it lends itself to the forces of creative destruction.

In the decades before 2008, banking was synonymous with twisted ques of people passively checking their watches and suited clerks dotted about ready to intercept a customer on the first hint of agitation.