Category: FinTech

  • The internet has an identity problem

    We have spent thirty years building an internet that is extraordinarily good at moving information and increasingly good at moving money, but remarkably bad at establishing who or what is on the other side of an interaction. The result is that we compensate with passwords, usernames, security questions, one-time codes, passport scans, selfies, cookies, device……

  • The internet has an identity problem

    We have spent thirty years building an internet that is extraordinarily good at moving information and increasingly good at moving money, but remarkably bad at establishing who or what is on the other side of an interaction. The result is that we compensate with passwords, usernames, security questions, one-time codes, passport scans, selfies, cookies, device……

  • The internet has an identity problem

    We have spent thirty years building an internet that is extraordinarily good at moving information and increasingly good at moving money, but remarkably bad at establishing who or what is on the other side of an interaction. The result is that we compensate with passwords, usernames, security questions, one-time codes, passport scans, selfies, cookies, device……

  • The internet has an identity problem

    We have spent thirty years building an internet that is extraordinarily good at moving information and increasingly good at moving money, but remarkably bad at establishing who or what is on the other side of an interaction. The result is that we compensate with passwords, usernames, security questions, one-time codes, passport scans, selfies, cookies, device……

  • Big Brother is watching you because you wanted it

    You are reading this as your data is harvested. On average, your personal data is collected 271 times a day. I know who you are. I know what you are doing. I will look for you. I will find you. Most of us think surveillance involves CCTV cameras, governments, police databases and, perhaps, the slightly……

  • Things worth reading: 28th September 2026

    Things we’re reading today include … Foreign banks have expressed UBS merger interest, Swiss newspaper reports Buyout firm Advent eyes Monzo stake amid £10bn Nubank bid talks | Sky News Revolut gets green light to buy Argentinian bank London’s investment bankers and lawyers make more than £1bn in takeover frenzy US seizes bank accounts of……

  • There are two sides to the coin

    There are always two sides to a coin and, right now, the two sides of our technological future could hardly look more different. On the one side are the technologists who want us to build more, compute more, automate more and move faster. Artificial intelligence will transform everything, robots will do much of the work,……

  • Things worth reading: 29th September 2026

    Things we’re reading today include … Tether USDT aids Iran funding, Senate report says | Reuters Former Atlanta banker arrested in $931K cryptocurrency fraud scheme Why family offices are leading institutional crypto Banks face $230bn payments hit as stablecoins scale New forms of intelligent money set to hit traditional bank B2B revenue streams Apollo raises……

  • MAVI bets on the AI boom creating demand for a new kind of accountant

    Accounting staffing company MAVI emerges from stealth with $4 million in funding.

  • There are two sides to the coin

    There are always two sides to a coin and, right now, the two sides of our technological future could hardly look more different. On the one side are the technologists who want us to build more, compute more, automate more and move faster. Artificial intelligence will transform everything, robots will do much of the work,……