Banking's brave new platform world

08 September 2019 - 00:07 By CHRISTOPH NIEUWOUDT

Never has the need been greater to add meaning to capitalism beyond just optimising shareholder value. The global financial crisis and the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) are shifting thinking from the Milton Friedman type of capitalism to showing "a positive contribution to society", to quote Larry Fink, perhaps the most important institutional investor today...

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