A mechanical movement is the heart of a watch. An ensemble of springs and metallic components, which measure the most important thing that we have, or actually go through during our lives, time. L’Epée gives objects dear to us, like cars, or threatening to humans, like rifles and bombs, this...

The world of food is in a dismal state. Venture capital doesn’t see food as an opportunity, even more after the flop of meat alternatives’ propositions. Nestlé, the largest food conglomerate in the world, lost more than a third of their market capitalization in the past five years and recently,...

The Senior Vice President of Marketing of Snacking Inc. (fantasy name) is ready to submit the yearly plan for 2026, which in ‘old school’ Chicago marketing jargon is called the ‘annual contract’ with the shareholders and all internal stakeholders. Almost half a million US dollars and 6 months of work...

Welcome to fashion, one of the most polluting, impersonal and ruthless businesses on the planet. And, yet we care so much about our gear, because it can change our attitude and the way we are perceived, privately and at work, in the physical and especially the digital arena. Fashion is...

Between 2016 and 2020, the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland (called USZ, Universitätsspital Zürich) registered a sudden increase in death cases, reaching a level that was deemed as very unusual, if compared to the Swiss and international averages. Nobody noticed, not even the C-Room...

The financial world is changing, also thanks to the advent of exponential technologies, like Blockchain. One interesting slice of the finance world is the insurance and re-insurance industries. We all chase protection, not only for ourselves, but also for our most precious properties. In the old days, in the UK,...

Decentralized finance, powered by blockchain, should make the financial world more efficient. Can it democratize, simplify and secure ways to plan yields on any digital asset? This is why we sit down with James Harris, Tesseract’s CEO, who joined the company a couple of months ago. Tesseract Group, headquartered in...

Crypto Week took place in the US this July 2025, with brand new laws hitting the road (Genius and Clarity Acts), and good news for stablecoin and crypto holders, besides an expected positive impact on interest rates, and demand for the dollar and US Treasury Bills (at least the short-term...

Access to money and payments’ systems should be universal rights. The future of money will still be based on national currencies and central authorities, which will work with traditional finance actors. This won’t change anytime soon. One thing is sure: if innovation is needed, it’s needed especially in making access...

AI is, as we know, the only talk of the town lately. It’s a continuous flow of new launches, models and applications, which will make any business faster, more efficient and exponentially more creative in researching new solutions and product offerings. When it comes to strategic, sensitive industries, like finance...