This week’s main headlines include …
Is technology making life better or worse?
We had a big debate in our NFI group the other day about whether technology is improving our lives or making things much more complicated. It used to be that you could walk around without a mobile or laptop and life wasn’t bad. Today, we …
Is it true that smart people are richer?
A natural thought is that if you’re smart, you’re more likely to be rich, but that’s not true. There are many smart people who are poor and many stupid people who are rich. Why so? Because wealth has nothing to do with intelligence. A study …
I’ve been looking at where we are in 2022, compared with 2012. In 2012, everyone was talking about FinTech disrupting and destroying the dinosaur banks; in 2022, banks are buying FinTechs and even launching their own start-up FinTechs Things have changed. I blogged a while ago …
Hong Kong hands its financial centre crown to Singapore in Covid meltdown
One of my good friends is Felix Hamilton, who is based in Hong Kong. This is the city that recently had a meltdown, due to government regulation removing many citizen’s rights. It is also a city that is meant to be a global financial and …
Should we be calmer about #Klarna?
Back in 2015, I interviewed Nikolas Adalberth, a co-founder of Swedish FinTech unicorn Klarna. Little did I know back then that they would be of the biggest stars of FinTech and the creators of BNPL, the Buy Now Pay Later, revolution Is it a revolution? Not …
This week's main news headlines include ...
- Fed's Powell: digital assets will likely become regulated
- ‘A total disaster’: Crypto firms face being booted from the UK as a key deadline approaches
- A multi-CBDC platform is technically viable but more questions lay ahead: BIS
- AmEx reveals its metaverse ambitions in a trademark filing for tech to let people to use its payment cards in virtual worlds
- ANZ becomes first Australian bank to mint stablecoin
- Goldman Sachs Conducts First Over-the-Counter Crypto Trade With Galaxy
- Apple buys UK fintech start-up Credit Kudos
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...
