Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories this week. 1 The Future of ESG is … Accounting? Companies, investors and consumers alike are frustrated by a lake of standardized accounting for corporate ESG performance. This might be about to change thanks to a recent proposal from the IFRS Foundation, which is ... Read more ›
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As we reach the end of the year, insurance business and technology teams are emerging out of intense annual review sessions ready with plans for 2021. The prognosis forebodes caution as executives grapple with scenario options ranging from a quick rebound to further drag in the recovery. At the same time, there are green shoots ... Read more ›
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Is a monopoly ever a good thing? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week we saw the empire strike back. Well the State actually, reacting to Facebook’s looming launch. I have always thought that if you want a straight answer, good or bad go find a ... Read more ›
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Writing good things about Stripe is cliché Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet by making it easy to launch and run an online business[1]. Efi Pylarinou is the founder of Efi Pylarinou Advisory and a Fintech/Blockchain influencer – No.3 influencer in the finance sector by Refinitiv Global Social Media 2019. Stripe Treasury, one of the two new Stripe offerings, is creating a buzz and ... Read more ›
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VCs like to invest in digital innovation, but their own business is artisanal – with a small number of partners making a few big decisions on ventures that are physically close to the VC office. That is the backdrop to the equity crowdfunding disruption that this 4-part series is describing. The idea of Internet disrupting ... Read more ›
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Stories about vaccines getting approval have been making the news and everyone is eager to leave this year behind them. No one was prepared for COVID-19. The coronavirus crisis shook the world and forced us to rethink many things. Even before the coronavirus struck, a financial revolution was already underway with cash being the main ... Read more ›
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Yes, we are in December, 2020 is nearly over! This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. To continue receiving This Week in Fintech, you can either become a paying Member for $143 per year (and receive all our content in addition to this weekly ... Read more ›
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Italy overwhelming Debt gives it the whip hand The astute Matthew Lynn points out that Italy’s debt situation is putting the whole of the Eurozone in a rather invidious position. The ECB has picked up the lion’s share of Italy’s debt issues over the past year and according to Matthew is now asking the creditor ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories this week. 1 Bank of England greenlights XBRL with Green Notice DSD is planning to move the collection of statistical data to the Bank of England Electronic Data Submission (BEEDS) portal. BEEDS is an online application that enables firms to complete and submit data ... Read more ›
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Beginning 2016, a spate of cyber incidents affected global businesses, drawing unprecedented attention to this peril. From NotPetya to WannaCry, ransomware and malware attacks created havoc for businesses, causing huge losses. These attacks proved to be globally contagious, infecting organizations across tens of countries. Ransomware attacks, where hackers steal e-files and demand money in return, ... Read more ›
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This post is by Alan Scott who was not able to post in his own name today.  Here comes Facebook!  Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week.  This week was all about Facebook. The Regulators are getting more urgent, the politicians are getting anxious and ... Read more ›
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Efi Pylarinou is the founder of Efi Pylarinou Advisory and a Fintech/Blockchain influencer – No.3 influencer in the finance sector by Refinitiv Global Social Media 2019. On the one-hour train ride to Zurich for the annual SICTIC Fintech event that will be held at Trust square, with only the speakers physically present, I focused on reflecting on the Swiss Fintech landscape. Swisscom maps the startups on a monthly ... Read more ›
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The equity crowdfunding market is consolidating (see Part 1). That does not signal the end of disruptive innovation. The wild unregulated Crypto ICO world is colliding with the now more established equity crowdfunding market. The Crypto ICO (Initial Coin Offering) world is bleeding edge and unregulated. ICOs were like the Napster phase of digital music ... Read more ›
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In a tweet on Thanksgiving day, Tim Armstrong, CEO at Coinbase, posted that US Secretary of Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, is rumored to be working on a law to regulate self-hosted crypto wallets. Supposedly he’s rushing to wrap and deliver this law before the end of Donald Trump’s term of office on January 20, 2021. The ... Read more ›
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This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. To continue receiving This Week in Fintech, you can either become a paying Member for $143 per year (and receive all our content in addition to this weekly summary) by clicking here. If you just want to ... Read more ›
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JP Morgan eyes up UK digital banking scene Well all you digital alt lending disruptors, watch out the Americans are coming! Couldn’t help but have a chuckle at this one. Apparently JP Morgan has appointed a high flying techie from its investment banking operations to be the CEO. We have of course been here before ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories this week. 1 Investor Forum 2020: Ready for anything Periods of crisis demand access to high quality, consistent, timely data, as the oil that keeps the cogs in our economic machine running. This half-day forum addresses how standards have been used to manage ... Read more ›
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Shopping for insurance or filing a claim can be arduous. But not so, when chatbots with conversational interfaces, mimic humans and respond with accuracy, speed and personality. PolicyPal is a Singapore based digital platform that launched a chatbot to allow customers to buy and manage policies conveniently. The bot took in-depth training on 9000 policies, ... Read more ›
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Opening up the wholesale FX market to the many and not just the few.  Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week we saw some major advances in both the thinking behind new and developing stablecoins and the operation of existing ones. The common theme is ... Read more ›
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Efi Pylarinou is the founder of Efi Pylarinou Advisory and a Fintech/Blockchain influencer – No.3 influencer in the finance sector by Refinitiv Global Social Media 2019. `Women tend to transform, they tend to change the terms, they tend to bring innovation and diversity. And it is critically important, because that diversity itself, is conducive to innovation, ... Read more ›
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