If you are in Schaffhausen, you must stop at H. Moser & Cie., the independent watchmaker whose history is grandiose and whose innovative spirit is even bolder. I visited their office right before Christmas, and our conversation resembled the famous A Christmas Carol by Dickens: past and present are a...

We sat down with Stéphane Waser, responsible for the watchmaking division at DKSH  and Managing Director for Maurice Lacroix, the Swiss brand well-known for crafting watches that deliver high perceived value. Our conversation revolved around AI, of course, new trends and his own hopes for the future. watches from Maurice Lacroix...

We sat down with one of the most authoritative and recognized experts in the field of watchmaking, Serge Maillard (SM), who runs Europa Star, a family business and the world’s oldest private media publication dedicated to watches, which has been running continuously. Europa Star is a reference, almost like the...

Coming back from some crypto events, from Zug to Dubai, passing through Lugano’s Plan B Forum, I brought home one thought, which is more of a question. Can you have a blockchain community engaged and empowered (securing transparency and liquidity for its coin, like for Bitcoin,) while abiding by the...

In 2015, we celebrated 40 years of Giorgio Armani Spa with a book and a series of events and content, celebrating and tracing the history of a business case, as the Americans would say, which is exceptional. In 2025, we celebrate 50 years of an enterprise, with the founder firmly...

We were overexcited about NFTs: we all remember those days, when it was easy to make a quick buck. What happened, after the hangover? They are not dead, and there is for sure a place for them, especially in the field of creativity. Let’s say it this way: they have...

No, exponential technologies, like AI or blockchain, are not going to disrupt the toilet paper business. At least, not as fast and deeply as they will with strategic industries of our economy, like healthcare or energy, or education. Certain things will evolve more rapidly than others. It’s life. If you...

Former politician and ambassador, Raymond Loretan is the President of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), the foundation that best represents and promotes globally one of the finest arts of Switzerland, watchmaking. “We are a platform, at the services of the entire global network of watchmaking, end to end,...

What is knowledge? Why should we bother with this as we build the next generation of artificial intelligence models to replace and outperform humans in all intellectual tasks and decisions? This is a fundamental question, and it’s a case of always having the right people (read, humans) in the room...

Let’s look at the other side of the banking world. What’s a crypto bank? Is there such a thing? How do they work, compared to traditional banking institutions? Amina Bank, formerly known as Seba and with offices across the globe, wants to be the bank of choice for crypto innovators...