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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Who are the regulators trying to protect? The strange story of Amigo continues. I have commented on this before. Amigo is a company that provide(s) (d) loans for individuals with poor credit rating so long as they can find someone to provide a sufficiently creditworthy guarantor. This idea always looked problematic to me. A ... Read more ›
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The silly season is in full swing in the XBRL world. Hence just one news item today … 1 Federal Council sets parameters for binding climate reporting for large Swiss companies Sustainable finance offers the Swiss financial centre an opportunity to further reinforce its competiveness. In December 2020, the Federal Council instructed the Federal Department ... Read more ›
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Risk management and social protection are generally well established in developed countries, on the back of insurance markets. North America generates over half of nonlife premiums globally, with the US being the largest market. Despite this, a sizeable chunk of the population even in the US economy is uninsured or underinsured for natural disasters, with ... Read more ›
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The rise of Central Banks? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week marked an important milestone in the process of centralizing and increasing the power of Central Banks. Will this process lead to CBDC’s in a form where your ability to hold political views and live ... Read more ›
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Imagine these two pitches to investors: A. We will get to $10m annual revenue with $7m costs and $3m Free Cash Flow. After that growth will be nominal. At best investors will value that $3m Free Cash Flow at some discount to the US Treasury 30 year return. B. We will get to $100m annual ... Read more ›
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This week Bitcoin jumped above $47,000 and on early Sunday the market capitalization remained stable at around $2 trillion, up 0.5% following a remarkable week. Bitcoin is up four weeks straight and is on pace for its second monthly advance. Overall, it’s seen its fastest 21-day advance since February, the last time it was in ... 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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Tesco Bank gives up the ghost. Who can blame them? Tesco Bank decided in December 2019 to stop offering current account services to new customers and followed up in July this year by confirming that existing customer accounts would be closed on November 30th this year. Not surprisingly the 250,000 current account customers affected decided ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories from the last week. 1 Last call: Standards for new XBRL formats set to go final As part of a long-term strategic effort to modernise and simplify important aspects of digital reporting, the XBRL Standards Board this week voted to publish updated report ... Read more ›
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Progressive Insurance has risen from modest beginnings since being founded in 1937. After its 1986 IPO, it has delivered 20.5% CAGR vs 9.9% by S&P 500. Personal auto insurance (with specialty lines of watercraft, RVs, motorcycles) remains the biggest revenue source. Already highly ranked on the Fortune 500, it kept delivering consistent results over last ... Read more ›
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Should Stablecoin issuers be regulated like a Bank? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week has seen Crypto centre stage in Washington as the fight over a tax amendment to the massive Infrastructure bill rages on. However, rather than focus on the minuta of that as ... Read more ›
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The Google founders famously put “don’t be evil” into their corporate code of conduct, softening it to “do the right thing” in 2015 and de-emphasized it again in 2018. The reality is that tech companies have only one mandate which is profit for shareholders. Keeping customers and talent happy is aligned to that mandate. That ... Read more ›
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Bitcoin and Ethereum hit their highest value in more than two months, as the market faces uncertainty because of regulations in the United States’ infrastructure plan. Early Sunday morning, bitcoin surged as much as 3.1% to over $45k, the highest price since May. Ethereum gained as much as 3.5% reaching $3,191 after its London upgrade. ... Read more ›
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Yes, it is August – enjoy summer if you are in the northern hemisphere. 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 ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories from the last week. 1 Oman prepares to launch XBRL disclosure portal The final countdown to XBRL reporting in Oman has begun! Oman’s Capital Market Authority (CMA) and its stock exchange, the Muscat Securities Market (MSM), has organised a second round of workshops in preparation ... Read more ›
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In “Is Pricing Innovation In Insurance a Zero Sum Game?”, consumers were more amenable to propositions based on evolving coverage types with dynamic pricing. Markets are pushing carriers to adopt pricing innovations. For many, the result is a zero-sum game, with improvements coming at the cost of reputational risks and increased regulatory oversight. But, those ... Read more ›
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Fintech 50 Index is 50 publicly traded Fintech stocks ranked by market cap and has been incubated within Daily Fintech, the leading site for Fintech, Crypto and Insurtech trends & analysis. Robinhood went for a traditional IPO (Initial Public Offering) vs the DPO (Direct Public Offering) chosen by Coinbase in their 14 April public stock ... Read more ›
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Is human intervention good for Stablecoins? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week we saw a very interesting dynamic play out. The Central Bankers made the case for a CBDC’s on the basis that it gives them a whole new set of tools to balance and ... Read more ›
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If you want a feel good post, click away. Both these problems cause a huge amount of suffering. The Plan B pitched by a few Silicon Valley billionaires of colonising Mars is hopium at best; Earth is were we all live. It is a Climate Crisis (not the nicer sounding Climate Change) and it is ... Read more ›
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