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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…

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…

This week’s main blog discussions include … Intelligent Money is now audible Earlier this year, we launched a new book Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks For You, which is doing well and reviews are good. The premise of the book? If you can decentralise money and make it intelligent with AI, what do regulators and banks do?…

Earlier this year, we launched a new book Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks For You, which is doing well and reviews are good. The premise of the book? If you can decentralise money and make it intelligent with AI, what do regulators and banks do? Well worth a read but I am biased, but some people aren’t….

My blog the other day about asking what’s going to change is the wrong question was inspired by the quote from Jeff Bezos and this report from Team8: an unconventional view of the future of fintech https://team8.vc/rethink/fintech/2030-and-beyond/ They delve into three areas: What won’t change? What do we believe are the ‘immutable physical laws of…

As a commercial strategist* (I don’t like the term futurist), I am always looking for what might change tomorrow. Most of the time I’ve been right and, if you don’t believe me, checkout this link: https://thefinanser.com/2020/12/what-is-the-future Today, most of the big things that are changing are political (new governments in USA, UK, France …); economic…

If you haven’t noticed, Apple recently launched a new feature called Tap-to-Pay. It seems like a quiet thing, but it’s not. In fact, the new open network offers the opportunity to actively use cryptocurrencies through Apple. There has been a lot written about it, but a recent post by Mike Kelly on LinkedIn* grabbed my attention…

I seem to have been immersed in APP fraud recently, mainly because the UK government is introducing new laws to manage such fraud on October 7. What is APP fraud? It is an Authorised Push Payment. It’s basically where you pay for something voluntarily which is not real, such as a parcel delivery that is…

The main blog discussions this week include … Which European country worries the most about money? I just got pinged with some research about which countries are trying to save money the most from Finansvalp, a Swedish price comparison service and information site that writes about and compares banking services. Usually I ignore such surveys…