Chief Executive Officer of BDSwiss Group, Alexander Oelfke, spoke to Successful Business about the Group’s operations, the market, Covid-19, and where the financial services industry could be headed. Who is BDSwiss and what does the company do? BDSwiss is a global financial services group offering secure access to the financial markets. We serve over 1.5 million registered clients from our headquarters in Limassol and facilitate more than $80 billion per month in trading volume. Despite our relatively short history, we’ve…

For fossil fuels, 2021 will not be easy considering the uncertainty surrounding post-pandemic demand and pressure to shift towards renewable sources. Oil production will continue slowly declining through March 2021, and may rise modestly through year end. The pandemic-caused economic disruption will keep to negatively impact global demand for natural gas, especially from industry. The next five years will see the energy transition reaching a tipping point. New build renewable energy will cost less than the marginal cost of fossil…

In 2020, for all kinds of businesses and organisations around the world working remotely became the new normal that they will continue to adapt to in 2021. Leaders have to rethink how their organisations operate, how staff are connected and supervised, whether the business model is still sustainable or their office space appropriate, etc. One of the implications is embracing the “anywhere operations” model, i.e. for the business to be accessed, delivered and enabled anywhere, which is now key to…

Successful Business talks to Point Nine, a company that focuses on providing trade and transaction reporting services to legal entities across the globe. With offices in Cyprus and London, Point Nine collaborates with both buy-side and sell-side financial firms, service providers, and corporations to help them ensure high quality and accurate reporting to remain compliant. We speak with Andreas Roussos (pictured), Theo Mallas, and Christina Barbash about the today and tomorrow of Regulatory Technology, known as RegTech, and the challenges…