Shaping the future of finance
Things we’re reading today include … Prince Charles took ‘bags stuffed with money’ from Qatari Sheikh After a golden decade, fintech faces its first true test The pain of KYC in fintech Central banks must act decisively as stagflation risks loom Trillion-dollar crypto collapse sparks flurry of US lawsuits – who’s to blame? Saudi Arabia…
Things we’re reading today include … Xi Jinping himself weighs in on how Big Tech should deploy FinTech After a golden decade, fintech faces its first true test London fintech SumUp raises £507m at a £6.8bn valuation Crypto industry fears EU crackdown on NFTs Cristiano Ronaldo signs NFT deal with crypto exchange Binance Boris Johnson…
Things we’re reading today include … Cryptocurrency fallout delivers sharp kick to decentralised finance dreams Once-Dull Crypto Strategies Are Now Shining in the Bear Market Crypto giant Tether targets UK investors with sterling ‘stablecoin’ Crypto Crash Survivors Could Become Tomorrow’s Amazons, BOE Says Bank of England warns 460 million bank notes will no longer be…
Things we’re reading today include … Crypto fears now materialising, central bank body BIS says The fintech funding market is not dead The Myth of the Central Bank ‘Soft Landing’ When Customers Say Their Money Was Stolen on Zelle, Banks Often Refuse to Pay Info on 1.5m people stolen from US bank in cyberattack Kazakhstan…
Things we’re reading today include … The rise of API-first companies Stripe unveils global infrastructure for bank transfers Brazil’s Nubank plots consolidation in Latin America’s booming fintech sector This fintech identity was inspired by YouTube videos of slicing Spam Inflation is the ‘biggest poison’ for the global economy as recession risk rises, Deutsche Bank CEO…
Things we’re reading today include … The phoney ‘fintech revolution’ is eating itself Facing Slowing Growth And Worker Discontent, High-Flying Fintech Unicorn Socure Lays Off 13% Of Staff The Covid loans, the billionaire … and Starling, the very fast-growing bank Starling Bank: questions over volume of customers taken on during Covid crisis French bank rapped…
The main blog discussions this week included … Welcome to (another) crypto meltdown As a guy who has invested a little in cryptocurrencies, I sat back a year ago in a warm glow. The investment had risen phantasmagorically, and was now worth a good pension. Today? It’s worth almost nothing. Source: Daily Mail What’s gone…
Things we’re reading today include … Fintech Giant Klarna Slashes Fundraising Ambition Wealthsimple, valued at $4B last year, joins the fintech layoffs list US Treasury Secretary Talks Crypto With Bank Chiefs Banks are playing catch-up, says Carney Bank group accused of exploiting loopholes and ‘greenwashing’ in climate pledge Global banking regulator urges closer links between…
Things we’re reading today include: Wealthsimple, valued at $4B last year, joins the fintech layoffs list Bitcoin falls to fresh 18-month low as crypto meltdown deepens Bitcoin came close to falling below $20,000 as investors continue to flee cryptocurrencies Bank group accused of exploiting loopholes and ‘greenwashing’ in climate pledge The Future of Banking Is…
