Category: FinTech

  • 2025 is all about digital wallets, tokenisation and crypto

    I got a whole load of payments predictions for 2025 … just a shame that it was no one paying me! Seriously though, a lot of people shared a McKinsey report that focuses upon this area, released around Sibos 2024, that opens with: “The tantalizing vision for global payments has long been that they’d be safe,……

  • 2025 is all about digital wallets, tokenisation and crypto

    I got a whole load of payments predictions for 2025 … just a shame that it was no one paying me! Seriously though, a lot of people shared a McKinsey report that focuses upon this area, released around Sibos 2024, that opens with: “The tantalizing vision for global payments has long been that they’d be safe,……

  • 2025 is all about digital wallets, tokenisation and crypto

    I got a whole load of payments predictions for 2025 … just a shame that it was no one paying me! Seriously though, a lot of people shared a McKinsey report that focuses upon this area, released around Sibos 2024, that opens with: “The tantalizing vision for global payments has long been that they’d be safe,……

  • 2025 is all about digital wallets, tokenisation and crypto

    I got a whole load of payments predictions for 2025 … just a shame that it was no one paying me! Seriously though, a lot of people shared a McKinsey report that focuses upon this area, released around Sibos 2024, that opens with: “The tantalizing vision for global payments has long been that they’d be safe,……

  • 2025 is all about digital wallets, tokenisation and crypto

    I got a whole load of payments predictions for 2025 … just a shame that it was no one paying me! Seriosly though, a lot of people shared a McKinsey report that focuses upon this area, released around Sibos 2024, that opens with: “The tantalizing vision for global payments has long been that they’d be safe,……

  • Is 2025 all about Agentic AI?

    I wanted to make this a short blog update on tech changes in 2025, but it’s incredibly long and, unsurprisingly, nearly all about AI. If 2023 was the year of ChatGPT and 2024 AI, this is the year of Agentic AI. What’s the difference? Well AI has so far been pretty much a pull technology. You……

  • Things worth reading: 6th January 2025

    Things we’re reading today include: ‘Trump bump’ adds almost $2 trillion to crypto market EU crypto regulation MiCA comes fully into force FinTech Ad Spending Climbs 45% in Last 3 Years Shawbrook aims to kickstart London IPO market with £2bn float The banking system’s net zero reckoning Investment banks prepare for 2025 crunch More records……

  • Inside the wild fall and last-minute revival of Bench, the VC-backed accounting startup that imploded over the holidays

    Friday, December 27, was supposed to be the start of a relaxing holiday weekend. But it was chaos for thousands of small business owners who use Bench, an accounting and tax startup based in Canada that raised $113 million from investors like Bain Capital Ventures and Shopify. That morning, they found themselves unable to log…

  • The Finanser’s Week: 16th December – 22nd December 2024

    This week’s main blog discussions include … The Top Ten Blog Posts for 2024 2024 has been a bumper year for this blog. According to Google Analytics, the blog has 175,000 active users, an increase of 30% over 2023, with near 300,000 views and a million interactions and so, as usual, I share the most……

  • Wishing you happy holidays and a peaceful New Year

    It’s the end of the year. I was wondering how you would summarise 2024? Someone asked this question on Reddit and the general answers appear to be that the world is going to hell and there is little we can do about it. Nice, although the regular surveys by Ipsos disagree: Despite the cost of……