Secret ‘James Bond’ Tunnels May Become a Tourist Attraction
A warren of tunnels beneath central London, once used by the spies who inspired the creation of James Bond, has been bought by a fund manager with a £220 million ($269 million) plan to turn them into a tourist attraction…
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PR Week Interviews Former Bloomberg Anchor John Dawson On His Transition To Communications
The long-time former Bloomberg TV anchor has switched sides to the PR world. He talks about why he made the decision, what he’s learned so far and the road ahead. Jack Ma’s Dot Com Warning Of the many stories John…
Read more →CMCC Global building “the BlackRock of crypto”
CMCC Global, a $500 million Hong Kong-based crypto investment business, is diversifying its funds portfolio to reach all corners of blockchain-based finance. The team began fundraising for the fourth iteration of its Alpha series of pure token-based investment vehicles in…
Read more →CMCC Global’s Latest Fund Attracts Li’s Investment Group
Martin Baumann and Charlie Morris, managing partners and co-founders at CMCC Global, one of the biggest VC Firms that target the crypto space, discuss the target of $300 million for their fourth fund, the types of investors they are talking…
Read more →Richard Li, Winklevoss-Backed Crypto Fund Seeks $300 Million
CMCC Global, a Hong Kong-based venture capital firm, is targeting $300 million of assets in its latest crypto fund — and attracting traditional investors like billionaire Richard Li to bet on blockchain technology and its applications. Launched in April, its…
Read more →Crypto Markets Getting ‘Big Push,’ 100x Group CEO Says
Alexander Höptner, chief executive officer of 100x Group, the holding group behind cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, discusses the prospects for the market and his company. Höptner’s appointment in December came two months after the founders of the exchange were charged with…
Read more →Renegade Crypto Exchange Enlists Mainstream CEO for Makeover
Alexander Höptner, chief executive officer of 100x Group, the holding group behind cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, discusses the prospects for the market and his company. (Source: Bloomberg)
Read more →Telum Talks to… John Dawson, Acara Strategy
“The journalist wants a headline and you want to get a message across” – former Bloomberg journalist and TV Anchor, and founder of Acara Strategy, John Dawson talks to us this week about interviewing both from the interviewers…
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Surviving under the microscope
communication with stakeholders has become a top priority. Pressure on business performance as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and Sino-US trade tensions has, along with intense interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns among regulators and stakeholders, have…
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Hong Kong Inc. in Crisis – What’s Your Strategy?
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently”– Warren Buffett The old adage of “fail to prepare, prepare to fail” could not be more salient…
Read more →Inside H.K.’s first regulated crypto fund
This week has started with a groundbreaking fund launch, the first SFC-regulated crypto fund in Hong Kong for professional investors. This now gives financial institutions a clear vehicle to get simple exposure to Bitcoin. But the achievement took two years…
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Davos Guide: Panel Power
A rabbit in the headlights (read, ‘consumed by a fear of the stage’); a peacock on show (‘all bluster and BS’); or the lion in the jungle (‘confident, with a strong grasp of the facts and at ease with the…
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Journalist Jungle: Knowing the Rules
The scoop of the century, heralded in media folklore as investigative journalism at its greatest, was landed by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the early 1970s. They were only in their 20s. Their story, built around…
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Oscar Nerves? How to Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking
And the Oscar goes to… Your name is read out… AMAZING!!! YOU’VE WON! CAMERAS, ACTION, YOU’RE LIVE! This will be the scene today (Sunday, February 9th) at the 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles as winners in 24 different categories step…
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Davos Guide: Winning with Journalists
“There is no way I’m speaking to the media. It’s too risky.” In my 20 years with Bloomberg, I must have heard, and overheard, that same mantra countless times. At the 50th annual World Economic Forum, which kicks off today…
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