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Things we’re reading today include: Love and Money: Surprising Insights into Modern Romance JP Morgan runs out of desk space after banning working from home IBM under fire as return-to-office order suspected of replacing human staff with AI How Is AI Transforming the FinTech Industry? UK: leading fintech companies by valuation 2025 | Statista Coinbase... The post Things worth reading: 14th February 2025 appeared...

Almost every day these days is an AI headline, but this video really struck me. It is showing the selfies we would have taken in historical times: Can you imagine? The reason it struck me is that you have to wonder today what is real online and what is not. The more our networked system... The post Is the world spinning too fast due...

Things we’re reading today include … ‘Highway robbery’: NYC comptroller accuses Musk of stealing $80m from city bank account | The Independent If your bank rips you off, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gets your money back. Elon Musk is killing it | The Independent The 5 biggest banking security threats – and how to... The post Things worth reading: 13th February 2025 appeared...

I shared a post the other day by Usman Sheikh, a serial investor based in Dubai. The post is asking the question whether AI can replace consultants although, to be more pointed, specifically McKinsey. How could that happen? McKinsey have the best and brightest minds in the world: they only hire graduates at the top of... The post Will AI replace McKinsey? appeared first on...

Every day there appears to be another update about how AI will change our world. The latest one in my inbox is a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), who warn that AI is likely to have a “seismic impact” on the economy and society, particularly in roles reliant on computer-based tasks. That’s almost all of... The post Will AI destroy humanity? appeared first on...

Things we’re reading today include … Bank outages: Committee demands answers from banks and building societies following Barclays IT failure – UK Parliament Swedish fintech giant Klarna signals major move into crypto ahead of April IPO Agentic AI and the future of fintech and banking automation I’m a Bank Insider: How Banks Serve the Ultra... The post Things worth reading: 11th February 2025 appeared...

I see a lot of people writing that Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) is dead. That saddens me a little, as I created the term twenty years ago – have I mentioned this before? – but I agree. It is now past its prime. It was replaced by open banking. Then there was embedded finance and today it is... The post Is BaaS dead? appeared first on Chris...

This week’s main blog discussions include … Elon Musk now controls the American payments system I feel like a continual splurge of Musk is happening, ever since Donald Trump became President, but the latest is really interesting as Elon Musk is now in control of the Treasury department payments system that runs America. The challenges of... The post The Finanser’s Week: 3rd February – 9th...

Like many, I’m still working on the idea of authentication, verification and identification using immutable technologies or, more specifically, distributed ledger technologies (DLT). There are many firms active in this space, trying to create digital identity systems using DLT, but it is far more complicated than such a simple solution. The reason is that the... The post The challenges of dealing with digital identity...

Things we’re reading today include … Bitcoin to go bust in 10 years? Nobel-winning economist makes a startling claim What the Government won’t tell you about bank snooping plans What DORA Means for Fintech and Finserv Industries Mastercard and GenAI: unleashing the future of commerce in 2025 and beyond How SoFi Became a Digital Banking... The post Things worth reading: 7th February 2025 appeared...