Interest from Chinese investors in the European tech sector has accelerated over the past year, according to analysts and commentators including Mattias Ljungman, a partner at venture capital firm Atomico. “There’s an increasing appetite by the Chinese to look at Europe because they have recognised the opportunities of Europe, which is a huge market in…
Cyber security has become a key priority for organisations in the Middle East lately following rising geopolitical tensions and a series of recent attacks against regional financial institutions. This is driving the growth of the regional cyber security market, which is predicted to be worth 9.56 billion USD by 2019 – with Saudi Arabia unsurprisingly…
Cyber security is not a field where trends happen easily, but the few that do appear tend to spread at wildfire speed. The newest innovation sweeping the regional cyber security sphere is “threat hunting”. Cyber security has graduated from threat detection and response, to actively pursuing sophisticated threats. According to Nicholas Watson, Managing Director at…
Written By Nic Watson – Managing Director, Naseba The world’s largest cyber security market is, surprisingly, not a country: it’s the US Federal government.Every year, the US Federal government spends more on cyber security than is spent by the total population of any other country (including both the private and public sector). The US government…
In 2016, buyers and purchasing decision makers worldwide will spend a total of $3.49 trillion on IT, according to figures provided by Gartner, Inc. This is no surprise: innovative, functional IT is in demand around the world, and is shaping the future of a variety of other sectors, from education to infrastructure to healthcare. It…
US investors are caught between a rock and a hard place. After years of stop-start recovery in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, high net worth individuals in the US are faced with an unfamiliar economic reality – described by wealth manager Ron Carson as a financial twilight zone, a new world that…
According to a recent YouGov survey commissioned by IP Global, property is the most popular asset class for investors in the UAE. 42 percent of residents invest in property – significantly higher than the percentage that invest in stocks, shares or bonds. And the US is the number one destination for UAE residents who plan…
The world’s wealthy have not lost their appetite for real estate investment prospects, according to two recent studies: one by Savills and Weatherill Consulting, and another by Sotheby’s International Realty and Wealth-X. It’s easy to see why real estate continues to appeal to the rich. Real estate rebounded faster than other asset classes in the…
Despite a dip in the number of foreign investors buying property in the UK, Middle Eastern investors remain active in the country. A recent YouGov survey found that the UK is the second most popular destination for property investors based in the UAE. According to Savills, Middle Eastern investors make up over 15 percent of…
According to some reports, London may be losing its haven status among foreign property investors, as slumping commodity prices and turmoil in the emerging markets decrease the demand for property. But the indicators for this reported loss of haven status are not exceptionally strong, and Middle Eastern investors have shown little sign of scaling back…