AREAS OF INVESTMENT

The global e-commerce market is steadily becoming one of the best investment options for investors across the globe. The coronavirus crisis changed the retail industry and shopping trends forever. 

 

Consumer demand for online goods continues to grow. Online shopping is extremely popular among today’s consumers. Customers are more likely to research and buy products from eCommerce sites than they are to visit physical store locations to look for them. Constantly increasing product demand opens the door for more online retailers to emerge and capture their share of a growing market.

Blockchain, an early-stage technology enabling the decentralized and secure storage and transfer of information, could become a powerful tool for tracking and transactions that can minimize friction, reduce corruption, increase trust and empower users. While still nascent, cryptocurrencies built on distributed ledger technologies (DLT) have emerged as potential gateways to new wealth creation and disrupters across financial markets.

By 2022, at least one innovative business built on blockchain technology will be worth $10 billion. By 2026, the business value added by blockchain will grow to just over $360 billion, then by 2030 grow to more than $3.1 trillion.

Cloud computing is one of the most in-demand and fastest-growing tech sectors boosted by digitalization, especially during the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic further highlighted the demand for cloud computing services given their flexible costs, scalability, and efficiency. 

 

With over 3.6 billion users in 2018 and a global market size that reached $266 billion in 2019, cloud computing is the fastest-growing tech segment in the market. Many investors believe that the cloud computing industry will continue to grow as more companies adapt to the work-from-home era.

Financial technology (Fintech) is used to describe new tech that seeks to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services. Fintech now includes different sectors and industries such as education, retail banking, fundraising and nonprofit, and investment management to name a few.

 

Fintech aims to compete with traditional financial methods in the delivery of financial services. It is an emerging industry that uses technology to improve activities in finance.