Our main stories of this week includes … The start-up economy I seem to find myself travelling all over talking about innovation and meeting start-ups. It’s the start-up economy, and there’s probably been no better time to be young, hopeful and visionary. Thinking back to my younger days, leaving university, the idea of creating my own…
Our main stories of this week includes … The natural order of society is that the system dictates the system Building on yesterday’s discussion of how Fintech firms will eventually become banks, I think a lot of people overlook the humanity in the network. What I mean by this is that there is a natural biological…
Our main stories of this week includes … Is it Fintech or Techfin (Part One) In conversation with bankers and start-ups, it is clear that there is a differing view of the world. It is not as clear-cut as nimble innovator versus dinosaur incumbent, which is how many portray this chasm of difference of thinking, but…
Our main stories of this week includes … Is it Fintech or Techfin (Part One) In conversation with bankers and start-ups, it is clear that there is a differing view of the world. It is not as clear-cut as nimble innovator versus dinosaur incumbent, which is how many portray this chasm of difference of thinking, but…
Our main stories of this week includes … Who wants to be a (Fintech) Unicorn? For the past year, there’s been lots of talk about Fintech Unicorns – start-up companies with over a billion dollar valuation launched since 2000. Jim Bruene at Finovate – register for Finovate Europe with 20% discount using FSClub20 – wrote about so…
Our main stories of this week includes … Banking becomes a series of components … and loses $1 trillion Some technology trends are highly predictable. One such trend is the modularization of banking, a theme picked up in a new Oliver Wyman report that’s free to coincide with Davos. You can download the report here, but…
Our main stories of the past two weeks include … 2016 banking predictions That’s not 2,016 banking predictions, which could be good, but banking predictions for the year 2016. Happy New Year. As is usual at the start of the year, I normally make a bunch of predictions about what will happen in retail, investment and…
Our main stories this week include … 2015 was the year of the blockchain The world is still very confused about bitcoin. For example, some press are still writing the old stories about the phenomena as an investment: Man buys $27 of bitcoin, forgets about them, finds they’re now worth $886k. It makes for a…
Our main stories this week include … 2015 was the year of the blockchain The world is still very confused about bitcoin. For example, some press are still writing the old stories about the phenomena as an investment: Man buys $27 of bitcoin, forgets about them, finds they’re now worth $886k. It makes for a…
Our main stories of the past two weeks include … 110 years to save for retirement: the future of mortgages, pensions and savings I don’t like talking about the long-term future much, as who knows anything about the long-term future? Nevertheless, there are some things that are obvious in the long-term future based upon technological…
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