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The Orwellian machinery critics are desperate to protect is the algorithms, not laws that seek to reduce harm | Ed Coper
Critics of Australia’s digital duty of care bill stand in defence of the right of platforms to promote harm over health, rage over reason, and fake over fact The algorithms have been kind to Pauline Hanson, which must be why she was so quick to jump to their defence when the Albanese government moved to…
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How 11 retail media networks are trying to differentiate themselves to advertisers
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. After the launch of many different retail media networks over the past few years, all these new divisions of various consumer-facing companies are now fighting for ad dollars. That brought many of them to New York City last week. Advertising events company Ascendant Network on…
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WTF is a ghost creator?
Forget AI-generated creators. There’s an army of people making content based solely on briefs. These “ghost creators,” or creators-as-a-service, are suddenly under the spotlight, but some marketers have actually been using them for years. A September 2 Semafor article detailed how ghost creators are being used to rack up hundreds of thousands of views on…
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Things worth reading: 3rd September 2026
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……
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The true cost of AI … and is it worth it? (Part Two)
Yes. The mistake is believing that the business case for AI is simply replacing people. If a bank employs 100 people costing £10 million and replaces them with AI costing £12 million, then viewed through the traditional cost-reduction spreadsheet AI has failed. Yet that calculation ignores what happens if those AI systems perform ten times……
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Things worth reading: 4th September 2026
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……
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America is creating a war with Europe over digital money
I came across another interesting piece of proposed American legislation this week: the GRANITE Act. On the surface, it has nothing specifically to do with banking, stablecoins or cryptocurrencies, but put it alongside the GENIUS Act and CLARITY Act and something much bigger starts to emerge. America is building a digital financial fortress. The GENIUS……
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The Finanser’s Week: August 31st – September 6th 2026
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……
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Things worth reading: 7th September 2026
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……
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Why are banks delegating their future?
There was a headline the other day that really annoyed me: Major Banks Are Racing to Appoint Chief AI Officers It annoyed me because it reveals something much deeper about how banks think. Whenever something becomes strategically important, banks respond by appointing a new executive to own it. AI is simply the latest example. For……