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There are people who run the world and those who watch it. I’m in the latter group, but constantly watch Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman (the PayPal Mafia), Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Bill Gates and more for their thoughts and actions. Also Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger and others. But one…

The latest BIS (Bank for International Settlements) run a survey of over 50 central banks every three years. I’m not normally that surprised by their figures, but this year seems to mark a milestone as they found that the worldwide movement of currencies had risen to almost $10 trillion a day!* Here are the key…

Building on the last two blogs all companies, not just in finance, have been transformed through the connected, network economy. That was the last decade’s worth of digital transformation and has led analogue companies hoping that they are now digital natives, although many are digital immigrants, still with a log of their old analogue systems…

We are in a third generation of change in finance. When I wrote Digital Bank over a decade ago, the focus was all about reinventing banking from being physical at the core to being digital at the core. Now we have to do it all again and reach the next level where the bank is intelligent…

A few years ago I was running a book launch in a basement. On this occasion, people had to buy the books and so the promoter gave me a Square terminal to take card payments. So far, so good … except there was no signal in the basement. No Wi-Fi, no 5G, no nothing, no…

It’s been really interesting watching the moves of Donald Trump to Make America Great Again by doubling down on the dollar being the reserve currency of the world forever more through the GENIUS Act. Well, that’s my take anyway. Add on to this that the Trump family made billions by launching World Liberty Financial, their very…

I clicked the other morning on Nicoo, the robot puppy, after seeing an ad on YouTube. I was going to order it for my wife’s birthday but thought, just before clicking, is this real? So, I go and Google Is Nicoo legit? and immediately realised it’s not. Later that morning, an email arrived saying that…

I am always fascinated about the way in which people see what is of value and why. The exchange of beads, crystals, diamonds and gold; the use of barter to exchange sheep for goats for weddings; the emergence of digital exchange for tokens; and, of course, the issuance of cash backed by governments that are…

I’ve been talking a lot about stablecoins of late and, in a timely fashion, Jas Shah at Fintech: Under the Hood has just landed a great primer all about such things. A Stablecoin Primer: Money for the Digital Age TL;DR Quick Take Stablecoins have evolved from early crypto-pegged concepts to fiat-backed instruments like USDC and…

As blogged yesterday, the GENIUS Act can open the doors for closed-loop networks using stablecoins that circumvent the traditional four-pillar model of issuer, acquirer, merchant and processor. Yes, it could save billions in interchange fees, but there’s another movement in stablecoins trying to change the world. This one is trying to get rid of SWIFT,…