The contours of risk are changing, becoming more connected and interdependent. There are several examples, but an apt one is the current pandemic that exemplifies how risks are becoming global, complex and difficult to address. Recent research reveals that 73% of general public and 83% of risk experts believe that populations world over are more ... Read more ›
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You can now buy Coinbase stock on NASDAQ and Coinbase joins the Fintech 50 Index. The question is what price are Coinbase shares worth? Mr. Market will deliver his verdict soon. I. Am. Not. A. Financial. Advisor. Do. Your. Own. Research. One part of your research is reading our 4-part series on Coinbase going public. ... Read more ›
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How do you engineer a Stablecoin? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. First from the crazy and wild world of DeFi we got some lessons on how not to do it. The most important data point is this: Fei was built to maintain a 1:1 peg with ... Read more ›
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Starting with the rude stuff, CYA = Cover Your Ass. Clean part of headline: KYC = Know Your Customer, KYT = Know Your Transaction, CAC = Customer Acquisition Cost, LTV = Life Time Value. Read on, all will be revealed. For banks this is CYA because they need enough legal cover to minimise fines when ... Read more ›
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Scanning the news this weekend there were plenty of interesting stories and we’ll be discussing three: central bank digital currencies, privacy and payments. Checking the Coinbase mobile app yesterday, bitcoin broke the $60k mark, reaching on Saturday $60,658. This is going to be a big week for crypto. On Wednesday, April 14, Coinbase, the world’s ... 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 and CEO at Kryptonio, a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto, without private keys or passwords.) @iliashatzis wrote BTC over $200,000 in ... Read more ›
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European Corporate Loan defaults double with worse to come? Gloomy figures arrive courtesy of Standard and Poors Global ratings data the headline being that the default rate is 5.4% in the UK and Europe as of February this year more than double than those prevailing a year ago. Hardly surprising however given that some sectors ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories from the last week. 1 Workiva: growth inevitable as XBRL usage increases Given the chaos that has occurred with GameStop, Robinhood, and the recent hedge funds, the SEC will begin to crackdown in the near future. XBRL, essentially machine-readable data that can be extracted ... Read more ›
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Small-business customers are important drivers of economic health, but stay vulnerable to future shocks and are routinely hardest hit. Insurers carry the mantle to provide these businesses the resilience and stability to address volatility with greater confidence. Per American Bankruptcy Institute, 255000 businesses filed for bankruptcy protection in 2020, till May. The number of Chapter ... Read more ›
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Don’t let China Mint the money of the future! Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Is it important to be first, to be second but best or just be the coolest? Clearly China is going to be the first large economy to implement a CBDC. The Western ... Read more ›
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Are you really sure I am not a dog? Maybe I am a really smart dog with an AI implant pretending to be a human. Disclosure, Daily Fintech is written by a stealth mode AI venture as a proof of concept. Seriously folks, you cannot know my Identity. To read this post you don’t care. ... Read more ›
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Bitcoin has been on a tear in 2021. Being roughly 80% up since the start of the year, this first quarter has been bitcoin’s best one in the last eight years. Bitcoin started the new year at around $29,000 and quick flew by $30k, $40k, $50k and $60k. While critics talk about “bubbles”, “tulips” and ... Read more ›
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The history of reserve currencies has been told many times. The leading economic power hands the reserve currency baton to the emerging economic power. The last baton pass was from UK to USA. So will the next baton pass be from USA to China? That would be history repeating. My thesis is that it will ... Read more ›
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Spring has sprung, exciting our experts to bring you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at Mercato Blockchain Corporation AG and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) @iliashatzis wrote NFTs can eliminate the original sin It first started with CryptoKitties in ... Read more ›
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  Hedge funds leveraged bets risks stability say BofE official Like London buses collapses seem to come along in pairs. First came supply chain finance house Greensill and immediately in its wake US hedge fund, Archegos,  that looks suspiciously like a family office.  Archegos rocked the markets with an asset fire sale deemed necessary ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories from the last week. 1 An XBRL future for Europe? ESAP consultation draws 84% ESEF approval rating All 154 submissions to the European Commission consultation on the establishment of a European Single Access Point (ESAP) are now available to download, and we’re pleased to see ... Read more ›
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In most sectors, companies will concur that there aren’t many options of differentiation that are as sustainable as customer experience is. Customer experience (CX) is the indelible impression any brand creates with customers across touchpoints along the customer journey. Prioritizing for the customer can be good for business. Insurers that prioritized CX generated 2-4 times ... Read more ›
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What type of Digital currency is best? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. I like this quote from AgustĂn Carstens at BIS for the sheer chutzpah. “The answer is that if digital currencies are needed, central banks should be the issuers and they should grant access based ... Read more ›
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 The Wall Street Bets story was all about outsiders taking on Wall Street (Click here for our take on Wall Street Bets). The Archegos story is all about professionals inside Wall Street. The Archegos story has a Hedge Fund manager nailed by SEC for insider trading becoming a Family Office fooling the Prime Brokers ... Read more ›
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It first started with CryptoKitties in 2017. Then we had CryptoPunks and NBA Top Shot. Most recently, this March, Beeple’s digital art piece “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” sold at Christie’s auction for US$69 million. All of these are NFTs. Essentially, NFTs are a way to transform a digital good, that can be endlessly copied, ... Read more ›
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