Shaping the future of finance
This week’s main blog discussions include … The true cost of AI (Part One) There is a rather awkward conversation beginning in boardrooms about artificial intelligence. For the last few years, the question has been what AI can do, how quickly companies can deploy it and how many people it might replace, but the question…
Things we’re reading today include … Crypto billionaire pardoned by Trump gives Reform UK another £4m Hargreaves Lansdown opens 9 crypto ETNs to investors A Core Egyptian Bank Gets Caught Up in Treasury’s Iran Crackdown How Mollie & GoCardless are Reshaping SME Payments in Europe What’s gone wrong with Nordic fintech AI-Powered Fintech Compliance and…
Things we’re reading today include … Netherlands bank moves billions in gold to London in ‘crisis preparedness’ move FSB Chair’s letter to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors: August 2026 European banks and private markets: Mapping the linkages Taxing the banks: what Europe’s windfall levies brought in as Burnham eyes his next move HMRC…
Things we’re reading today include … Judo Bank a ‘victim’ of bot trading, says CEO Russia enters the era of cryptocurrency regulation with a new law Ethereum Whale Moves 109,806 ETH to Exchanges in Three Days, Raising Sell-Off Concerns Tokenized Real-World Assets Reach Monthly High As Collateral Demand Grows Mollie completes GoCardless acquisition to expand…
Things we’re reading today include … AI Software’s Real Bottleneck is Payments Infrastructure New AI models pose risk to global financial system, Bank of England chief warns Bank of England issues same chilling warning as man who predicted Covid and 2008 financial crash Central bank independence is facing its biggest stress test of this century…
Things we’re reading today include … WhatsApp group chat used to send millions in cash, funding crime and extremism Central banks on-chain speech by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB The battle to build a global defence bank Treasury ‘tells Healey’ to consider tax on banks and oil UAE, Egyptian central…
This week’s main blog discussions include … The SWOT of AI in banking I was sitting this morning and thinking about how fantastic Agentic AI, autonomous commerce and programmable money is. It is the focus of my next Pulp Finction book Birth of a Unicorn being released in December. The thing is that there is…
Things we’re reading today include … Polish prosecutors investigate crypto firm’s links to conservative opposition politicians and organisations Trump Family’s New Crypto Bank Is Backed by Abu Dhabi Sheikh Polish Olympic chief arrested in spreading crypto scandal PayPal Deal Talks End as Advent, Stripe Group Abandons Acquisition Effort – Bloomberg Deutsche Bank Taps Thought Machine…
Things we’re reading today include … US fintech investment tops $80bn in H1 2026, driven by mega-deals UK fintech funding drops to a decade low, with AI bucking the trend Fintech Funding Trends Research ‘challenges assumption’ that older generation is less confident with fintech Britain plans new Bank of England objective to support payments innovation…
Things we’re reading today include: UK fintech investment plummets over past six months Tokenized deposits could affect bank liquidity, maturity transformation Responsible Fintech Institute debuts quantum pilot Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has Bitcoin rises above $80,000 as soft dollar, debasement fears boost momentum Bank chief says Monte dei…
