Shaping the future of finance
Things we’re reading today include … Tokenised asset use could cut UK bank collateral needs by 30% Chime to buy nationally chartered Stride Bank for $590 million, shares jump Block Pursues National Trust Bank Charter to Custody Crypto How Central Banks Can Win the Digital Currency Race China’s $54bn capital boost for banks falls far…
Things we’re reading today include … Conflicts Accelerate Cryptocurrency Adoption in the Middle East Hunter Biden Launching $LAPTOP Memecoin Bitcoin hack drains $320 mn from crypto network in latest security breach HSBC and BNP Paribas Trial FX Tokenised Deposit With Swift Inside Italy’s banking M&A boom — and why Wall Street is watching China’s central…
Things we’re reading today include … China to pump $54bn into state banks and insurers to boost economy FATF exposes hawala networks fuelling money laundering Nigel Farage’s family members ‘have bank accounts frozen because of their association to him’ Moody’s warns banks over AI tech dependency Deutsche Bank led $1bn of troubled lending to Hollywood…
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…
