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Jun 19, 2024 | 
cityam.com | John Myers
Wednesday 19 June 2024 5:09 am Build, Baby,Build: Yimbys are London’s future England’s house building pipeline is at the lowest level since records began 17 years ago, as fresh pressure is piled on government parties to mend a “deepening housing crisis”.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
damore-mckim.northeastern.edu | John Myers
If you ever happen to be Roy Anderson's seatmate on a flight and ask, “So, what do you do?”—well, brace yourself for impact. Anderson is a self-professed supply chain evangelist.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
ffnews.com | Katy Garnham |Samuel Falmagne |Brune de Linares |John Myers
Akur8, the next generation insurance pricing solution powered by transparent machine learning, is excited to announce that Cypress Property & Casualty Insurance Company (Cypress P&C) has selected Akur8’s Risk and Rate modeling solution to empower their actuarial team to build high performing, explainable pricing models, and to establish a robust predictive modeling framework.
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May 31, 2023 | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Towner |Eduardo Castro |John Myers
Experian, the world’s leading global information services company, has chosen identity verification solution provider, IDVerse, to support its customer’s digital onboarding and expand its digital footprint across the globe. By working with IDVerse, Experian will allow its entire customer base to carry out identity verification checks as part of the customer journey. It also enables Experian to widen its partner ecosystem, making the end-to-end onboarding process seamless for clients and consumers.
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May 30, 2023 | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Towner |John Myers
OCR Labs Global, a world leader in digital ID verification (IDV), has begun the next stage in its evolution. Newly branded as IDVerse, the company offers seamless and scalable IDV solutions that will allow companies to evolve how they interact with consumers. The move away from OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in the company’s name reflects how the IDV landscape has changed since 2014 when OCR Labs began operating in Australia.
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May 23, 2023 | 
worksinprogress.co | Emily Hamilton |Eric Gilliam |John Myers |Niko McCarty
22nd May 202316 Mins As climate change threatens crop yields, we need a second Green Revolution – one that, this time, is driven by genetic engineering. Mexico, in the 1950s, was the birthplace of the first Green Revolution. An American agronomist named Norman Borlaug was its unlikely hero. In his early twenties, Borlaug studied forestry and plant pathology at the University of Minnesota and then, for his PhD, studied a pest that infects maple trees.
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May 23, 2023 | 
worksinprogress.co | Samuel Watling |Eric Gilliam |John Myers |Emily Hamilton
23rd May 202324 Mins Washington, DC, has avoided the worst price rises that have plagued many other growing American cities. Arlington’s transit-oriented development might be the reason. Across much of the Western world, the price of housing far exceeds the cost of building it. Many regions are suffering from increasingly severe housing supply challenges, with the typical renter spending a quarter more on housing today than in 1980.
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May 23, 2023 | 
worksinprogress.co | Samuel Watling |Eric Gilliam |Emily Hamilton |John Myers
23rd May 202332 Mins Cheap, safe nuclear power is possible, but is all but prohibited in most Western countries. A regulatory sandbox for fission could shake us out of our regulatory sclerosis. We, and the world around us, are mainly the dust of long dead stars; our food, the same stardust transformed by the power of another star, our Sun. The Earth is warmed by the radiation from decaying stardust within. Stars furnish the power on which life depends. As well as life, stars bring death.
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Mar 12, 2023 | 
capx.co | John Myers
The UK subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB UK) is insolvent. That means there will be losses. But if the Bank of England chooses the wrong course, those losses will be far greater than they need to be – causing damage to jobs, human welfare, innovation, and UK taxpayers. Many UK commentators have not yet grasped this, but the question is not whether the Government should avoid moral hazard by refusing to bail out the bank.
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Mar 11, 2023 | 
ziggurat.substack.com | John Myers
The UK subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB UK) is insolvent. That means there will be losses. But if the Bank of England chooses the wrong course, those losses will be far greater than they need to be – causing damage to jobs, human welfare, innovation, and UK taxpayers. Many UK commentators have not yet grasped this, but the question is not whether the Government should avoid moral hazard by refusing to bail out the bank.
