This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at Kryptonio a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto, without private keys or passwords and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) ... Read more ›
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Fintech investment in UK bigger than France Germany and China combined! It seems that Brexit has had little impact on inward investment in the Fintech sector. What always amazes me is the way the press always seem surprised that this is happening and has been happening for years. There must be some underlying sentiment ... Read more ›
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Here are the three most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1 2022 Regtech outlook 2021 was a tipping point as FinTech became real and the banking sector started to frame the next steps required for a truly digital infrastructure. The need for an ... Read more ›
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Across economies, there is rising evidence of correlation between total shareholder return (TSR) and digital capabilities. “Digital champions” had annual TSRs that were 5% higher than “digital laggards”. They were also faster growing with nearly 6% higher annual premium growth and 1.8X higher valuation multiples. Their net promoter scores were 8 points higher. Successful digital ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Will stablecoins and CBDC’s help or hinder Crypto? Some would argue that CBDCs will cancel out the need for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. After all, how many different digital currencies do we really need? This article argues that in fact, the opposite ... Read more ›
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The Internet was originally designed as a decentralized system to withstand attack by the Soviet Union during the cold war. The Internet protocols are also permissionless. You just connect your system to the Internet. Nobody can stop you – except the market if you don’t add value. That changed with Web 2 when centralized services ... Read more ›
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In 2000 we had the “dot-com bowl,” and twenty-two years later it looks like we’re going to have the first “crypto bowl.” Among this year’s Super Bowl advertisers are two crypto companies, Crypto.com and FTX. Advertising during the Super Bowl can put a brand in front of an audience of 100 million people, but placing ... Read more ›
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This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at Kryptonio a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto, without private keys or passwords and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) @iliashatzis ... Read more ›
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Bankers’ Fury as Credit Suisse claws back bonuses Poor old Credit Suisse they never seem far from controversy and now there is a row over bonus payments. Specifically some of the non front office staff will have bonus clawback provisions built into their employment contracts. What I found hard to fathom was that the ... Read more ›
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Here are the three most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1 Digital finance: Federal Council sets out areas of action for coming years The Federal Council sees great potential for Switzerland as a business location in the digitalisation of the financial market. ... Read more ›
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The median of global Insurance Penetration, defined in terms of insurance premium as percentage of GDP, was below 2% as recently as 2016. But it masquerades the fact that national differences are large, ranging from 20% at one end to 0.06% at the other. Some countries don’t have developed insurance markets, being at early ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Facebook exits the stablecoin business, or has it? This week the news was dominated by the news that Facebook has exited the stablecoin arena. Or has it? Certainly on the face of it (no pun intended) it looks like a clean ... Read more ›
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Is it Libra or is it Diem, is it Facebook or is it Meta? Hard to keep up with all the name and brand changes, but whatever way you look at it, the news just in about the sale to a US based VC called Silvergate for $200m represents a significant fail. To try and ... Read more ›
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Gavin Wood, now based in Switzerland, is crediting with coining the term Web3 in 2014 when he was CoFounder and CTO of the Ethereum Foundation. Web3 is a vision of a an Internet that is not controlled by a few big centralised players such as Google, Facebook and Amazon ie the Web2 we use every day. ... Read more ›
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The entire week JPMorgan, the biggest US bank, was all over the Greek news. This weekend it was mentioned countless times in Greek parliament by the prime minister and several other cabinet members, during the no-confidence vote initiated by the main opposition leader. Last Monday, JPMorgan announced that it agreed to acquire a 49% stake ... Read more ›
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This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at Kryptonio a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto, without private keys or passwords and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) @iliashatzis ... Read more ›
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Horta-osorio and Credit Suisse It seems that trouble automatically finds the top dogs at Switzerland’s second largest bank. In the Portuguese bankers case it was COVID restrictions that forced his resignation as Chairman after just nine months. It was his mission to sort out the obvious problems which had arisen under his predecessor. Unfortunately ... Read more ›
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Here are the three most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1 Workiva announces acquisition of the Arelle XBRL validation platform Earlier today, the acquisition of Mark V Systems was announced by Workiva. I truly welcome this news and I hope that many ... Read more ›
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In the past year, technology stocks trailed on Wall Street, but insurtech stocks saw major declines. Lemonade fell to a market cap of $2.3B, more than 50% compared to its trading day price. Since its SPAC merger, Hippo’s market cap dropped to $1.5B from $5B. Root, a car insurance specialist went public in 2020 and ... Read more ›
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