Finance

The Hidden Cost of Sitting on Cash: How Inflation Silently Shrinks Your Savings

The Hidden Cost of Sitting on Cash: How Inflation Silently Shrinks Your Savings

Let’s admit it: there is a unique kind of comfort in opening up your banking app and seeing a solid, stagnant balance sitting safely in your savings account. It feels secure. You worked hard for that money, and knowing that the exact number of dollars isn't going to fluctuate based on the daily whims of the stock market gives you an undeniable sense of peace. That is why wealth-tech platforms like Alinea Invest are changing the conversation—helping everyday people realize that simply hoarding cash might actually be holding them back from real financial freedom. For generations, we were taught that…
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Moving the Unmovable: Sergei Kuznetsov on the High-Stakes Reality of Financial Cloud Migration

Moving the Unmovable: Sergei Kuznetsov on the High-Stakes Reality of Financial Cloud Migration

The message for global finance in 2026 is simple: move to the cloud or be left behind. Gartner estimates that sovereign cloud infrastructure spending alone will reach $80 billion this year. But even with huge budgets, many migration projects for regulated industries are stalling out – or worse, failing spectacularly. We found out by sitting down with Sergei Kuznetsov, Lead Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience building and migrating distributed financial platforms used by central banks and institutional investors around the world. Kuznetsov says this is the reality check for any organization who thinks cloud migration is just…
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