McKinsey Financial Services Practice Financial services beyond the bank The CEO and co-founder of the embedded-finance company Alviere discusses the opportunity in enabling brands to offer their customers financial services. December 2024 | --- | --- | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...

McKinsey McKinsey Global Institute: 2024 in charts Here are some of the McKinsey Global Institute's favorite data visualizations from 2024. December 2024 In 2024, MGI delved into the defining components of the new era sweeping our world. We analyzed the changing geometry of global trade and provided a reality check on the physical challenges of the energy transition. We examined global productivity growth, the imperative to raise investment, and opportunities to close the productivity gap between large and ...

Public Interest Directors In order to protect the NPD principles, Public Interest Director roles were created to improve the transparency of the companies delivering the NPD projects and to ensure the non-profit distributing attributes are protected. There are a number of projects which pre-date SFT's NPD programme but which have broadly similar responsibilities and require the appointment of an "Independent Director". Public Interest Directors and Independent Directors sit on the NPD company boards. They a ...

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Shifting Shores: FDI Relocations and Political Risk A report from the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Copyrights and Credits SHIFTING SHORES: FDI RELOCATIONS AND POLITICAL RISK © 2024 Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433 http://www.miga.org/ This work is a product of staff of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) with ext ...

Industry Overview - The AI ecosystem has solidified with five major players emerging as finalists in the race for the biggest model: Microsoft/OpenAI, Amazon/Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI [2][4] - The supply chain has shifted into high gear with Nvidia's Blackwell chip shipping, TSMC building new fab capacity, and Broadcom working on custom AI chips [2] - Data centers planned in early 2024 are entering full build mode, with physical data centers rising across America [3] Key Players and Strategies - Google's advantage is vertical integration, owning its own TPU chips, data centers, and research team [8] - OpenAI has the strongest brand in AI, with revenue reportedly over $3.6B, and may continue to widen the gap with rivals [9] - Anthropic has gained research talent, including key hires from OpenAI, positioning itself as a favored destination for AI scientists [10][11] - xAI is the pace setter for data center scaling, with its 100k GPU Colossus cluster and plans for larger clusters [12] - Meta is all-in on open source, leveraging its Llama models and distribution advantages through Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook [13][14] AI Search as a Killer App - AI search is emerging as a powerful reinvention of internet search, with the potential to fragment the monolithic market [18][19] - Domain-specific AI search engines will proliferate, tailored to the needs of different professions such as doctors, lawyers, and accountants [19][22] - OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search in October, reaching 10M monthly active users, challenging Google's dominance [17] CapEx and Industry Dynamics - Big Tech companies have locked arms around the AI revolution, controlling data centers and owning equity stakes in big model companies [25] - 2025 is expected to be a stabilization year for AI CapEx, with companies focusing on completing projects and selling installed capacity [26][27] - Quarterly CapEx figures show a trendline starting to stabilize, with Microsoft and Google leading the way [27][28] - New data center capacity coming online in 2025 will continue the epic decline in AI compute prices, benefiting startups and incentivizing innovation [29] Future Outlook - The AI building blocks are firmly in place, with 2025 set to be a year of leveraging these capabilities to create incredible new applications [30] - The competitive landscape has solidified, and 2025 will reveal which strategies prove prescient and which prove ill-fated [15]

ab 6 December 2024 Global Research US Semiconductors UBS Global Technology Conference - Highlights From Day 3 Conference Highlights We hosted presentations, dinners, and meetings with ARM and MRVL among other attendees. We list key takeaways below; see back pages for detailed notes from company presentations/meetings. See our prior notes for takeaways from day 1 (NVDA, TXN, ON, ADI, AMAT, AMD, STX, LRCX, MCHP, SWKS, WDC, ALGM, and BIS Head Alan Estevez) and day 2 (KLAC, QCOM, TER, and INTC). ARM Arm noted t ...

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