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The Finanser’s Week: 14th August – 20th August 2023

This week’s main blog discussions include … What will happen when your brain is ’embedded’? I was thinking about embedded, intelligent finance and imagining the future. There are many scenarios, but one that I kept returning to is when you have infi inside (intelligent finance inside). A chip in your brain, and you can run…

Things worth reading: 18th August 2023

Things we’re reading today include … 15 Fastest Growing Fintech Companies In 2023 – Insider Monkey Dutch fintech Adyen loses $13 billion in market value after revenue miss | Evening Standard What Gen-Z Workers Really Want: Cutting Edge Fintech | The Fintech Times Coinbase Wins Approval To Offer Crypto Futures To US Clients – The…

Things worth reading: 17th August 2023

Things we’re reading today include … UK launches £1 billion fintech growth fund to compete with US (cnbc.com) UK Launches FinTech Fund Backed by Mastercard and Barclays (pymnts.com) Adyen Profit Margin Misses Estimates as Hiring Wave Weighs – Bloomberg Bank Stocks Keep Crashing — What is Happening? | Nasdaq Credit Strategy – CS – Latest…

Things worth reading: 16th August 2023

Things we’re reading today include … 3 Fintech Stocks That Have Huge Growth Potential in 2023 (thecoinrepublic.com) Monzo is UK’s best bank, Virgin Money and RBS the worst, says CMA survey | Evening Standard Will banks’ new limits force us to go cashless? | This is Money Bank of Ireland: Customers who have no money…

Things worth reading: 15th August 2023

Things we’re reading today include … ‘Critical’ Bank of England payments system fails | Business News | Sky News While Goldman Sachs struggles, JPMorgan’s digital bank is still hiring (efinancialcareers.com) NatWest ‘worst bank’ for paying back fraud victims (telegraph.co.uk) Is the Bank of England now a leader of the UK’s Net Zero transition? Don’t bank…

Things worth reading: 14th August 2023

Things we’re reading today include … The future of crypto hinges on a fight between Binance and the SEC : NPR The dark side of fintech: BNPL’s negative impact on financial well being (finextra.com) Crypto addiction: The reality behind the seemingly glamorous social media currency | ITV News ‘Like horse trading’: Credit Suisse retail investors…

The Finanser’s Week: 7th August – 13th August 2023

The main blog discussions this week include … You can’t handle the truth My typical day is spent with news channels in the background. It makes me feel like I’m in an office. The non-stop chat and talk of people about the problems of our world. Thing is that, the more you hear global news,…

Things worth reading: 11th August 2023

Things we’re reading today include … Fintech And Crypto Firms Stew And Sue As Fed Moves Into 21st Century–Without Them (forbes.com) UBS ends Credit Suisse’s government and central bank protections (cnbc.com) We need to take back control from the banks – spiked (spiked-online.com) Interpol is after Iraq’s bank robbers (economist.com) Visa’s new head of fintech…

Things worth reading: 10th August 2023

Things we’re reading today include … Leak Reveals BlackRock’s Game-Changing Bitcoin Plan That Could Cause Price Chaos For Ethereum, XRP And Crypto (forbes.com) Third-party guidance spurs US bank rethink on fintech partners – Risk.net Bank of England Wants Digital Pound Advisers as It Moves to CBDC Design Phase (coindesk.com) Revolut to boost crypto team by…

Things worth reading: 9th August 2023

Things we’re reading today include … Italy to hit banks with 40 percent windfall tax – POLITICO Fed Starts New Program to Oversee Crypto Activity in U.S. Banks (coindesk.com) Crypto must be taught in schools – here’s why – CityAM PayPal explains the vision for its dollar-pegged stablecoin: CNBC Crypto World Sex Workers Took Refuge…