Cyber Security Trends Analysis 2025: When AI, Fraud, and Skill Shortages Converge into a Systemic Threat By Joachim C. Bartels, Intrepid Explorers, LLC. Executive Summary Cybersecurity and online...
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Dun & Bradstreet India Hires Almas Khan as Head of Marketing & CRS
Dun & Bradstreet’s First Visible Talent Signal Under CEO Tulenko: Why the India Hire Matters Dun & Bradstreet’s appointment of Almas Khan as Head of Marketing & CSR for India may appear,...
KLARNA Makes Accounting Provisions to Cover Potential Higher Defaults
KLARNA Moves into Conventional Lending and Makes Provisions for Higher Defaults - Reports Loss Are FinTechs “destined” to lose money when entering conventional lending? Short answer: Not always —...
IEI Editorial on EY’s “Half the Picture…” and the Coming Battle Over Non-Financial Data
1) Introduction: What EY’s Paper Really Signals about Non-financial Data EY’s new report, Half the Picture, or the Whole Story?, reporting on a survey of UK executives, arrives at a moment when UK...
The Cyber Security Crisis: The Skills Gap We Appear Not to Be Able to Automate Away
While many fear losing their jobs to AI, the opposite crisis is unfolding in cybersecurity. There simply aren’t enough qualified people to defend the systems we’ve automated. At Intrepid Explorers,...
When Understanding Fails: German Fears, American Intentions, and the Price of Ignorance
Letters from Germany ... Intermittently I receive letters from Germany, containing press clippings of articles expressing Germany’s dissonance with the new administration. I always try my best to...
S&P Global vs. Moody’s – Q3 2025 at a Glance.
Comparison of S&P Global and Moody's Q3 2025 Results Both franchises produced double-digit EPS growth with clean execution; SPGI adds a clearer private-markets growth vector and raised FY guide...
DueDil: The Mouse That Roared – Laid to Rest – Farewell to a Brand
DueDil’s Fourteen-Year journey from attempted disruption to absorption When DueDil burst onto the UK business-information scene in 2011, it promised nothing less than transparency for the opaque...
S&P Global’s 14× Bet on With Intelligence: Paying for Scarcity, Speed, and Standards
Congratulations to the owners of With Intelligence for realizing top value. True to the maxim “Data is not Information, and Information is not Knowledge,” the premium here prices the knowledge...








