Blog Index

This week’s main blog headlines are …. GulfTech is the next big thing I’ve just returned from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) where there were a number of events.  Just a few weeks ago, I was in Bahrain, talking at a conference about FinTech as usual. What struck me is the interest and excitement about…

A summary of the main blogs of the week … Western Union: is the future bright or dark? I recently was hauled up over saying that Western Union (WU) was being disrupted by FinTech.  The words that a reader took issue with are: The high fees of Western Union and other remittance providers were fairly…

This week’s main blog headlines are …. Will Apple Bank be the first new American #Fintech Bank? On Wednesday the American Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)* followed up on its promise last December to introduce a national bank charter for Fintech bank startups by issuing a white paper on how to apply…

A summary of the main blogs of the week … The Fast and the Furious I was having a conversation with a friend about the issues at Monzo this week (among others).  Their third-party payments processor had an outage at the weekend so the cards couldn’t be used. Then they had crashes on Android and…

This week’s main blog headlines are …. The FinTech Wave, Part One I wrote a blog the other day for The Next Web.  I thought it was ok, and it has gained a lot of traction socially. Apparently, people like it and here I’m going to expand upon the basic theme to give a detailed analysis…

A summary of the main blogs of the week … The FinTech Wave, Part One (part two next week) I wrote a blog the other day for The Next Web.  I thought it was ok, and it has gained a lot of traction socially. Apparently, people like it and here I’m going to expand upon the…

This week’s blogs are all about how the internet started and where it’s future is going … The Birth of Computing and Development of the Web The last chapter of ValueWeb talks about what comes after the third-generation internet: the internet of value.  This is the internet being built today, based upon shared ledgers, cloud,…

A summary of the main blogs of the week … Dodd-Frank, Donald Trump and Goldman Sachs: you’ve been suckered The big headline on Friday was Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order to review the Dodd-Frank regulations.  He also changed rules relating to brokers, so that they can seek maximised profits rather than being forced…

A summary of the main blogs of the week … The Semantic Regulator (#RegTech Rules) A bank has to make a regulatory change every 12 minutes.  That’s some task.  A bigger question must also be: how can a regulatory check that a bank is compliant with their regulatory changes, if their regulations change every 12…

A summary of the main blogs of the week … Laundering-as-a-Service (a bank USP) I was surprised the other day when I met Pawel Kuskowski, CEO and Co-founder of Coinfirm, a start-up firm offering Compliance-as-a-Service.  Pawel has been trained in compliance and AML, having worked with some of the world’s biggest financial institutions including AIG…