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The Finanser’s Week: 25th August – 31st August 2025
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Last century processes in the digital age
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When you have an AI twin, what are you doing?
I just wrote something that was pretty ambiguous when a friend asked what my latest speech is all about. The answer? “Becoming an AI-native bank – digital is so last century – and digital trust in a deep fake world (digital ID)”. The answer is accurate, but I just wrote off digital and then talked……
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Yes, you can build a bank from your bedroom (part two)
I was going to change this, but am reposting a LinkedIn update from Leonid Bashlykov, who heads up Crypto at Revolut because it further clarifies the blog I posted last week. The post was titled: Launch a bank from your bedroom which, unsurprisingly, gained a lot of criticism from good luck with that to wait till……
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Yes, you can build a bank from your bedroom (part two)
I was going to change this, but am reposting a LinkedIn update from Leonid Bashlykov, who heads up Crypto at Revolut because it further clarifies the blog I posted last week. The post was titled: Launch a bank from your bedroom which, unsurprisingly, gained a lot of criticism from good luck with that to wait till……
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Yes, you can build a bank from your bedroom (part two)
I was going to change this, but am reposting a LinkedIn update from Leonid Bashlykov, who heads up Crypto at Revolut because it further clarifies the blog I posted last week. The post was titled: Launch a bank from your bedroom which, unsurprisingly, gained a lot of criticism from good luck with that to wait till……
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Yes, you can build a bank from your bedroom (part two)
I was going to change this, but am reposting a LinkedIn update from Leonid Bashlykov, who heads up Crypto at Revolut because it further clarifies the blog I posted last week. The post was titled: Launch a bank from your bedroom which, unsurprisingly, gained a lot of criticism from good luck with that to wait till……
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Things worth reading: 25th August 2025
Things we’re reading today include … Littering leads to arrest of cryptocurrency scam fugitive Lagarde Says Central-Bank Independence Is Critically Important EU finance cop ‘frustrated’ at lack of European mega-bank mergers FCA’s New Rules: Balancing Consumer Protection and Fintech Innovation Fintech fraudster faces 20 years for fabricated financial statements Klarna lands €1.4bn financing facility with……
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The Finanser’s Week: 28th July – 24th August 2025
This week’s / month’s main discussions include … AI is bigger than the smartphone Twenty years ago, four critical things happened: cloud computing became mainstream; the smartphone was launched; Satoshi Nakamoto released the bitcoin whitepaper; and the global financial crisis killed all trust in traditional financial institutions. All of these things pretty much happened at……
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AI is bigger than the smartphone
Twenty years ago, four critical things happened: cloud computing became mainstream; the smartphone was launched; Satoshi Nakamoto released the bitcoin whitepaper; and the global financial crisis killed all trust in traditional financial institutions. All of these things pretty much happened at the same time. Twenty years later, a multi-trillion dollar world has appeared on the……