One recent entrant hoping to make headway against the industry's giants is SpeakUp, which has raised $700,000 in financing and has developed a new software as a service collaboration tool for businesses.
Indian finance provider InVenture has developed a mobile application that promises to overcome the problem.
To help it lend money to what Diemer claims is an underserved segment of the business financing market, Finiata has developed a credit scoring system that "mixes manual processes, traditional scoring algorithms and alternative data sources".
The Power of Nutrition will act as a catalyst to multiply the financial resources going into this area, through a combination of grants, government funding and International Development Association IDAA) financing, The fund has developed an innovative matching offer that guarantees that every dollar in private funding is multiplied up to six times with new financing secured from other funders.
The paper explores not only how the art world has aped many aspects of globalised high finance but also how a symbiotic relationship has developed between finance and art in conceptual innovations, promotional strategies and transnational flows of capital, people and ideas.
The finance education charity MyBnk has developed a Money Marathon game for secondary school students, which can be used across three 30-minute lessons.
Luxembourg's finance sector, he said, has developed far beyond its early years in the 1970s, when it became notorious for helping Belgian dentists and other modestly wealthy customers from neighboring countries hide their incomes.
A research team, financed by the EU, has developed a new material that allows aeroplane wings to function more like birds' wings.
In poor and middle-income countries, where the cancer kills more than 250,000 women a year, cost is a factor, but the test's maker, Qiagen, with financing from the Gates Foundation, has developed a $5 version and the price could go lower with enough orders, the company said.
