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Is it debanking or derisking?
I wrote in April about debanking my bank before they debanked me, which is a theme regularly popping up in UK media. The debanking process is where, without notice, a bank decides that your account is suspicious and blocks it for no apparent reason. You cannot get it reopened and often find it difficult to……
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Is it debanking or derisking?
I wrote in April about debanking my bank before they debanked me, which is a theme regularly popping up in UK media. The debanking process is where, without notice, a bank decides that your account is suspicious and blocks it for no apparent reason. You cannot get it reopened and often find it difficult to……
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Is it debanking or derisking?
I wrote in April about debanking my bank before they debanked me, which is a theme regularly popping up in UK media. The debanking process is where, without notice, a bank decides that your account is suspicious and blocks it for no apparent reason. You cannot get it reopened and often find it difficult to……
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Is it debanking or derisking?
I wrote in April about debanking my bank before they debanked me, which is a theme regularly popping up in UK media. The debanking process is where, without notice, a bank decides that your account is suspicious and blocks it for no apparent reason. You cannot get it reopened and often find it difficult to……
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Regulate the regulator
Last week, a report was released by the UK’s Parliamentary committee saying that the UK regulatory body for financial conduct – the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) – is “incompetent at best, dishonest at worst” and that it has a “toxic culture”. This is based upon an investigation of the FCA which took almost three years……
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Jobs of the Future, Part One: Guardians of Reality
This is the first in a series about Jobs of the Future. I believed for a while that there would be no way AI could create music, poetry, stories, art and ideas, but have now been proved wrong. AI can do all that and more. But can it create relationships and feel like a human?……
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Jobs of the future, Part Two: the Counsellor
I wonder whether, tomorrow, we will find machines that advise us on our life decisions, our relationships and our thinking. It is obvious that AI machines will manage our health and deploy robotic healthcare services to ensure that we live our lives better, but what about what is inside our heart and mind? I used……
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Things worth reading: 3rd December 2024
Things we’re reading today include … Crypto, FinTech Cry Foul Over Debanking — Could Issue Be Risk? Why Is XRP Going Up? Ripple’s Token Surges for 6 Consecutive Days, Hits $2.50 Fintech must focus on finance as well as tech – Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, former CEO, Virgin Money – UKTN Truong My Lan: Vietnamese tycoon……
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KPay, a financial management platform for SMEs, raises $55M Series A
Sometimes, the easiest way to find a great idea for a startup is to look beyond the current problem you’re solving for your customers. That’s exactly what worked for the founders of KPay. Davis Chan and his co-founders previously helped small and medium-sized merchants optimize their revenue and traffic in Asia, but they eventually noticed…
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Jobs of the future, Part Three: the Life Coach
What is the meaning of life? A question asked many times from Monty Python to Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This will become an even more important question in the future as robots and AI control our world. Why are we here? What is the function of a human? Is there any meaning to our lives?……