Who will be first! Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week we have seen an interesting argument play out. Who should be first to innovate at scale in Digital Currencies? Should this be State (slow, considered, careful) or should the Private sector (with Regulatory cover) be ... Read more ›
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Mirror mirror on the wall, which public companies of them all, will be first in reporting 10+% revenues from Blockchain? Will it be payment Fintechs or conventional exchanges, or software tech companies or e-commerce companies? Efi Pylarinou is the founder of Efi Pylarinou Advisory and a Fintech/Blockchain influencer – No.3 influencer in the finance sector by ... Read more ›
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Revolut looks like the Neobank that is pulling away from the pack. This has led to predictable anti Revolut backlash focussed on 5 concerns: 1. Revolut are losing money (£107 million in 2019, from £33 million in 2018. Read this from Zennon Kapron for a good analysis of their financials. Revolut’s financial strategy seems to be ... Read more ›
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The franc has had its day. The Swiss National Bank should issue its own crypto currency as legal tender, the eFranc. At least that is what Hans Gersbach and Roger Wattenhofer, two professors from ETH University in Zurich, think. They suggested amending the current monetary system in Switzerland by creating a CBDC that is accessible ... Read more ›
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This weekly summary from our experts, brings you insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives, on this historic/infamous day known as 9/11. 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 ... Read more ›
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After 2008, in the central bank liquidity driven bull market, stock picking went out of fashion. As the market always went up due to stimulus aka money printing, the simple winning mantras were “don’t fight the Fed” and “buy the dip”. My thesis is that this will change in the not too distant future: if ... Read more ›
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Pandemic and protests. How the tumult of 2020 will forever change banking Why this matters: It is generally accepted that the American banking system entered the COVID crisis in somewhat better shape than its European counterparts but then along came the brutal death of George Floyd and the continual turbulence that that has caused worldwide ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories this week. 1 Leveraging technology to support supervision: challenges and collaborative solutions Speech by Benoît Cœuré, Head of the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub, at the Peterson Institute for International Finance, Financial Statement event series, 19 August 2020. The head of the ... Read more ›
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Friction in daily customer transactions has been diminishing. Regardless of whether they are at work, home or on the go, customers connect to digital ecosystems to fulfil needs. Globally, insurance customers tend to have similar preferences for connected services. They need safety, prevention, convenience and rewards for good behavior. Since they are accustomed to receiving ... 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. MakerDAO was the dominant player in the DeFi market for a long time. It was a lending protocol with two tokens, a stablecoin coin pegged to the USD (DAI) and their protocol token (MKR). These were the days that the entire amount ... Read more ›
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Crypto has a Trust deficit! Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Let’s call it as it is! Hacks, scam ICOs’ and other wild value accretive promises that can never be kept, the list of trust destroying behaviour within and around this industry goes on and on. The ... Read more ›
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I am a Brit, but I have lived all over the world and now call Switzerland home. I think Brexit was a mistake; but as an entrepreneur I work with the reality of what is rather than the hope of what could have been. Money goes where it is welcomed and in a world ... Read more ›
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in a podcast interview with Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Coinbase’s CEO, Brian Armstrong, confirmed that the crypto exchange is developing a platform to help startups launch their own tokens. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has confirmed that the exchange operator is working on an initial exchange offering (IEO)-like service, months after first hinting at such plans last year. ... Read more ›
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In a podcast with Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Coinbase’s CEO Brian Armstrong confirmed that the cryptocurrency exchange is developing a platform to help startups launch their own tokens. Talking about the planned product, Armstrong said: “We’re working on a product; we’ll probably call it Coinbase Launch or something like that. It’s a way for anybody who wants ... Read more ›
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This weekly summary from our 7 experts, brings you 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 ... Read more ›
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Last week I more or less wrote off Jerome Powell’s comments on allowing the US economy to run hot without response as nothing new. Many of the mainstream press commentators saw it as a major change in US policy. If that is the case what is the likely impact going to be? To ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories this week. 1 Comparing changes in risk disclosures Not long ago the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules to reduce the amount of disclosure that firms need to make about business risks, legal proceedings, climate change, and other issues. Those changes go into ... Read more ›
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The rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)! Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week we saw the Central Banks making significant progress on the implementation of CBDC’s. While those Central Banks in the west are largely still at the research stage and in the case ... Read more ›
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Two announcements today. The first is that Pat Kelahan is the latest person to join the Daily Fintech alumni who go on to do so much other great work. Your guides to Insurtech have included: Rick Huckstep Stephen Goldstein Pat Kelahan Rintu Patnaik Which brings me onto the second part of this announcement, which is about ... Read more ›
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TLDR. Well it depends, said the consultant punching the clock. Will Security Tokens enable scammy operators to separate dumb money from their money? Or will Security Tokens power a new wave of innovation to make the world a better place (perhaps via “digital cooperatives”). First, the news, well reported in many venues, that INX Limited ... Read more ›
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