This week’s main blogs include …
Venezuela replaces national currency with bitcoin
In a fascinating move Venezuela, which has been a basket-case economy ever since Hugo Chavez died in 2013, has dropped their national currency (the bolivar) and any ties to the US dollar, and decided to link their national currency to bitcoin instead. This follows years …
Teach children things machines cannot learn
I am involved in a number of activities, one of which is a not-for-profit called The Portrait Foundation. This is a bit of a pivot, but it’s all about encouraging creativity in children, as it is the human and emotional skills that children should learn …
I was recently asked to deliver a presentation set in the year 2030. It was challenging, but interesting. The session was recorded, you can watch it here … … or, if you don’t want or cannot watch it, then here’s the transcript. A 2030 retrospective …
After discussing 2030 and beyond yesterday, I got into an interesting discussion about 2050 and beyond the other day. It started with looking back 25 years and looking forward 25. Looking back 25 years, I realised that discussions of modular, object-oriented, service-based banking is now …
Digital is not “a generational thing”
I was told that living purely digitally was a “generational thing” and this was followed more recently by another person saying that my view about video is also a “generational thing”. Getting more and more irritated with the peer pressure to switch video on #Zoom, …
This week’s top reads include (via Citadel Advantage)
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Banks & Credit Unions
- How the Best in Banking Are Marketing Their Mobile Apps
- 2021 Is the Year Banks Must Take Digital Challengers Seriously
- Marcus: A Digital Bank That Should Keep Rivals Up At Night
- How Open APIs Revolutionize Banking Services
Fintech
- Death by Fintech
- The disruptive trends & companies transforming digital banking services in 2021
- How Gen Z is Reinventing FinTech and Banking
- Nigeria's booming fintech space, and its top 13 players
- Banks or FinTech: who will get the “Ring of Power”?
- Fintech Chatbots: How AI Chatbots Play A Role In The Fintech Industry
- Fintech warning: Banking industry sees light at end of tunnel – an express train headed right at it
Payments
- PayPal launches crypto payment platform
- PayPal Sees No Letup for Online Shopping Even With Reopenings
Cybersecurity
- To Stop Future Hacks, Look to the Past
- CBA slapped with a court-enforceable undertaking after loss of data on 20m customers
- US Misses Two Cyber 'Pearl Harbor' Attacks
- Insurance Giant CNA Hit with Novel Ransomware Attack
Artificial Intelligence
Chris M Skinner
Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through his blog, TheFinanser.com, as author of the bestselling book Digital Bank, and Chair of the European networking forum the Financial Services Club. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand (as well as one of the best blogs), a FinTech Titan (Next Bank), one of the Fintech Leaders you need to follow (City AM, Deluxe and Jax Finance), as well as one of the Top 40 most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal's Financial News. To learn more click here...
