Eurozone housing sector entering bubble territory ECB. So it’s not just the UK that is seeing property prices rise? Apparently the ECB is concerned that the property market in Europe is sensitive to a rise in interest rates. Well where isn’t it? The problem is our old friend inflation which rose to an un ... 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 Singapore launches data platforms to support green finance The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced that it will pilot four interoperable digital platforms to address the financial sector’s need for ... Read more ›
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A study of insured losses over the last half century reveals that weather-related events have significantly escalated compared to non-climate perils. Between 2010 and 2019, global insured losses from wildfires increased by 500%. On the other hand, the humanitarian aid deficit grew from a little under a billion dollars two decades ago, to $4 billion ... Read more ›
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Disruption is scary – particularly if it is happening to you! Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Last week a number of Politicians and Regulators woke up to what the current financial marketplace disruption could mean. We all like disruption as it brings us new goods and ... Read more ›
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The law of large numbers is brutal in investing aka pity rich Mr Buffet and Mr Munger. Think about what it takes to go 10x from: 10k to 100k 100k to 1m 1m to 10m 10m to 100m 100m to 1b 1b to 10b 10b to 100b All numbers assumed in US$ but actually the ... Read more ›
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One way to understand how big crypto has become is to look at the prices of coins and at the industry’s market cap. But then when you check a few minutes or days later you might see a completely different picture because of the crypto industry’s volatility. In the last 10 days, bitcoin’s price dropped ... 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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Brussels attempts to force Euro clearing services away from London may send everything to New York. While this is not strictly anything to do with lending it is certainly relevant to the fact that political interferences since Brexit have refused to go away. The clearing of financial transactions including some hideously complex financial derivatives has ... 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 XBRL and why it is important for South Africa This is the first in a series of articles exploring XBRL. Our next article will consider how XBRL was developed and the ... Read more ›
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Globally, insurers contend with numerous distribution challenges — whether it is by virtue of the shift to remote sales networks or from balancing tech-assisted and human sales. Artificial intelligence (AI) is known to create seamless and personalized experiences with solutions ranging from lead prioritization to automated underwriting. Evidently, the most impact from AI, with as ... Read more ›
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Will Regulatory oversight help or hinder? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Last week we noted the amazing innovation in DeFi and the role stablecoins have to play within that ecosystem and wondered if the move by some Regulators and Politicians to get involved will help or ... Read more ›
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What happened to Motif? If you believe that copy trading can disrupt fund management you have to answer this question. “Motif allows individuals and investment advisors to invest in stock and bond portfolios built around everyday ideas and economic trends” (source Crunchbase). Despite Motif raising $126.5M from top tier investors such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, ... Read more ›
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The Taproot upgrade for Bitcoin was officially activated on Sunday. Bitcoin had its biggest upgrade in 4 years, since the introduction of Segregated Witness in 2017. The Taproot upgrade improves network privacy, scalability, security, and the ability to support complex transactions. Earlier in the week bitcoin hit a new record high of $69k ($68,789.63 to ... 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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The great challenger bank experiment has failed Good Saturday morning reading from Ben Marlow but definitely not for the faint hearted. He takes the view that banking is really all about scale and as evidence presents the proposed takeover of Metro Bank by Carlyle as a step in the road to, perhaps, create a ... 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 IDW standard adopted for ESEF examination Just in time for the start of the second ESEF audit season 2021/2022, the HFA adopted the final IDW examination standard: Examination of electronic reproductions ... Read more ›
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Insurers seemingly don’t attract the adulation they deserve from investors. Despite a core subset of insurers delivering strong operational results, share-to-price performance has largely lagged other financial companies. The KBW Nasdaq Insurance Index (KIX), which reflects performance of US carriers, has trailed performance of the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF), which tracks financial-services companies, ... Read more ›
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Another Bull run for Crypto, or is something else happening? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week the numbers came in, stablecoins are growing once again at a rapid rate. In the past this has been a signal that money is coming into the Crypto ecosystem ... Read more ›
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The Press Release headline says: CME Group Signs 10-Year Partnership with Google Cloud to Transform Global Derivatives Markets Through Cloud Adoption The sub headline says: Google also makes $1B equity investment in CME Group CME is a behemoth in derivatives, ranked 10 by market cap in Fintech50Index, but legacy finance does not have a good ... Read more ›
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1 million trades with an aggregrate profit of $1 million? 1 single trade with a profit of $1 million? For the Follower Investor who is paying a % of the profit, it does NOT matter, but many great investors – such as Warren Buffet – made a LOT of money with a very small number ... Read more ›
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