This week’s main blog discussions include …
The secret sauce of Stripe’s success
Your morning coffee purchase travels through 15 countries in 0.3 seconds. It’s not magic. It’s a global network of invisible digital pipes and two college dropouts saw their world-changing potential. Two brothers. Meet Patrick and John Collison: the architects of our digital future. 2010: the Collisons spot a problem: Online payments are a maze of…
Tony Blair wants everyone to have a Digital ID
The BBC just interviewed Tony Blair. Who? Oh yea, some politician from the last century. The interview is quite interesting, particularly the point that, when Mr Blair stood down, Britain had been led by just three people over 28 years. Now the country has just moved onto their sixth prime minister in eight years. Interestingly,…
When it comes to money, who can you trust?
As it’s the quiet summer, I’ve been watching too much on Netflix, Prime, Disney and Apple. Yes, I subscribe to them all. It’s interesting that the content is either about love, hate, fear, happiness and other emotions. The one thing that links nearly all the ones I watch is money, because money is power. Whether…
Sorry to keep blogging about APP (Authorised Push Payments) fraud, but it’s a big topic of my friends right now in Britain, and Jeremy Light just published a great post on LinkedIn that provides more insight. Here’s his thoughts: The PSR’s Authorised push payment (APP) scams performance report for 2023 contains some extraordinary data. Published…
“Half of the world’s real-time digital transactions happen in India”
Many of you have probably been relaxing for the past month and missed the fact that there was a major event in Mumbai: the Global Fintech Fest. It impressed me that they managed to persuade Shri Narendra Modi, Honourable Prime Minister of India, to deliver a keynote on Friday. What did he say? Well, you can see for yourselves …
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...
