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Martin Boujol

Martin has recently graduated from the university of St. Gallen with a master's degree in Business Innovation. He joined Flowbank in September 2020 as strategy assistant to the CIO. He has a strong interest in finance and new technologies and has a certain expertise in literature and philosophy.

Technology ・ Mobility

13 October 2020

Cars can finally drive themselves: Waymo ahead of everyone

The Alphabet-owned autonomous car company Waymo recently started to experiment with driverless cars, opening the service to actual clients for the first time.

Technology ・ IPO

9 October 2020

The Chinese IPOs on the US market continue

Lufax, one of the biggest online lending platforms in China, recently announced it would go public on the New York Stock Exchange.

Technology

8 October 2020

Oracle vs. Google: the battle of titans

This duel has so much at stake it reminds me of the 2008 Wimbledon final between Nadal and Federer. Will Google lose for the first time in years like the Swiss champion?

Technology

7 October 2020

The software company without code is a double unicorn

Unqork raises $207 million in its C series and is now valued at $2 billion. They propose a very interesting service: the ability for you to build software without a single line of code.

Stocks ・

6 October 2020

Transport industry: The mother of all peaks is coming

Airfreight space might not have enough capacity to meet the record high demand which is expected by year-end. According to the president of FedEx’s express division, we will reach the “mother of all peaks.” Here are the two reasons why: ...

Stocks ・ The Swiss Series

6 October 2020

The Swiss Series: "On" offers shoes you can’t buy

The Swiss shoes manufacturer introduced a subscription model for its new running shoes in order to ensure that the pair goes back to the company and that the recycling loop actually works.

Stocks ・ Covid-19

5 October 2020

Cineworld turns its projector off

Cineworld will operate major closing this week, putting on hold all of its movie theatres in the US and the UK, leaving over 45’000 workers unemployed.

Stocks ・ The Swiss Series

5 October 2020

Swiss Stocks: Dufry joins forces with Alibaba

Swiss travel retailer Dufry and Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba have agreed to form a Joint Venture in China to resist to the hard hit the business took this year.

Technology

2 October 2020

Discord is killing it. Here’s why.

With over 100 million users and a $3.5 billion valuation, Discord is a big deal. But what is the recipe of such a success?

Macro ・ IPO

1 October 2020

Europe is behind everyone in terms of IPOs

As you might have noticed, IPOs are booming everywhere around the globe. Everywhere, aside from Europe.

Commodities ・ IPO

1 October 2020

AppHarvest: a solution to the food shortage

The farming start-up recently announced it would go public through a reverse merger with Novus Capital Corp.

Commodities ・ IPO

1 October 2020

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The farming start-up recently announced it would go public through a reverse merger with Novus Capital Corp.

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