Is that Token, Legal Tender?  Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. The answer to this question is no, unless it is a CBDC. Libra, Bitcoin, Tether USD are all Tokens. You have a right to refuse them. Legal Tender means you can’t refuse a state backed ... 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. Soon it will be thirty years since I started working on Wall Street – 7 WTC, 37th floor, Salomon Brothers, Fixed income derivatives department. Scary but true. Bloomberg terminals and excel spreadsheets were then the basics. The Salomon Brothers culture and entity ... Read more ›
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Yesterday, I came across a tweet by Marc Bernegger about WEF’s first council entirely focused on cryptocurrencies. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has created the Global Future Council on Cryptocurrencies. The job of the council will be to evaluate challenges and opportunities, bring together different stakeholders and members of the global ecosystem to improve governance ... 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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  The Inevitable COVID crash. When and where will it strike? Despite the pessimistic tone Matthew Lynn is in fact doing us all, Banks and Alt Lenders alike, a favour. In this piece he reminds us that that there has never been a recession yet which has not been accompanied at some point by ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories this week. 1 Digital Regulatory Reporting is here After a decade of data challenges, Regulators are now taking cautious steps towards new reporting technology. New reports issued this month show that DRR finally has traction and that demand for better solutions is high as the industry pinpoints which areas to deploy it.  We may ... Read more ›
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After Lemonade and other successful IPOs including Snowflake and Palantir, Root Insurance has its sights set on the primary public market. In its S-1, Root minces no words about its intent to reinvent the $266 billion US auto insurance. Five insurtech companies established after 2015 have each raised private capital in the region of $500 ... Read more ›
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Who will be first, which will be best? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. A friend asked me this week to answer this simple question. He runs a business and wishes to be prepared for what many believe will be the biggest disruption to society since the ... Read more ›
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I am a bit of a privacy nut. I don’t like being tracked and I don’t like anybody else controlling my identity. Yet I know that being tracked can create personalized services that are useful to me. That is why I am a fan of decentralized identity on the blockchain. (see Part 3/Chapter 6 of ... 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. The SPAC trend continues in the US and Chamath Palihapitiya is one of the leading investors with his IPOA, IPOB,… series. The latest Fintech deal was focused on a real estate disruptor in the US, OpenDoor. With Zillow, being the blue-chip name ... Read more ›
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Late last year, we heard that Google was looking to get deeper into the financial world by partnering directly with banks. In early August, Google announced its foray into the banking world with another six U.S. banks pledging to offer digital-only bank accounts through Google Pay. Google is already working with Citigroup, Stanford Credit Union, ... 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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Here are the 3 stories that mattered this week: 1. Crowd Cube and Seeders to merge Some weeks ago I mentioned wrote that the whole Alt lending market was ripe for consolidation and while Crowdcube and Seeders are in the equity space the sentiment is exactly the same. These are two of the biggest UK ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories this week. 1 EU to move forward with Single Access Point This week the European Commission (EC) has announced that a new European Single Access Point for seamless access to financial and sustainability-related company information will be set up in the second half ... Read more ›
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In April 2019, Ford Motors created a new division representing multiple lines, including micro-mobility, non-emergency medical transport and city solutions. General Motors, a 110 year old company, rebranded as General Mobility offering services in real-time vehicle diagnostics, dealer notification and driver scoring to improve performance. Emerging trends in automotive industry allude to a future of ... Read more ›
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I am commenting on this superb post by Fred Wilson, the VC posting in AVC. I am often using the data in my posts. It is very valuable data (and fascinating to data nerds such as myself). The TLDR summary: “It takes seven to ten years to get to real liquidity in a portfolio of ... 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. It is Autumn and a warm color mix of red, green, and yellow in trees, is surrounding us. When you are not on a zoom call or on social media, look outside because it won’t last long. In Fintech land there are ... Read more ›
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Fred Schwed was a professional trader who wrote Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? after losing a bundle in the 1929 stock market crash. Maybe the modern equivalent of  Fred Schwed, having lost a bundle trading on zero fee brokerage systems, is today penning an expose of the worst shenanigans in the the stock market – ... Read more ›
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While cryptocurrencies have picked up a lot of steam, there are serious obstacles in the road ahead. Security remains an ongoing problem. Since 2011, hacks and thefts of digital assets have resulted in at least $9.8 billion in losses. From Binance and Bitpoint to Bithumb and Electrum, malicious actors targeted both small and large wallets. ... Read more ›
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