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How Facebook Failed at Finance
I haven’t written much about Diem, Facebook’s digital currency, because there isn’t much to write about. A dead duck on the first day would never succeed. I said it when it launched in 2019: the bottom line is that Facebook may have developed a stablecoin…
How the EU Banned Bitcoin…and Didn’t
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but yesterday was the day Europe voted not to ban bitcoin. This has been bubbling for some time, as the EU has developed a new Framework for Crypto Asset Markets (MiCA) to protect EU citizens who invest in these assets. …
The Next Big Thing: Green Digital Finance
My latest book comes out in June. The theme is the integration of finance, technology and ESG. It’s a topic that’s been around for years, but came into vogue in the late 2010s. Now it’s a thing. I’m afraid some people do…
The pandemic has forever changed customer behaviors
If you haven’t read my blog post last week asking if the pandemic has made banking digital forever (answer: no), what’s obvious is that the pandemic has changed consumer behaviors forever. This came to mind while reading the Forbes-Ipsos survey of American…
Are regulators looking backwards or forwards?
Jason Butcher, CEO of CoinPayments, posted this photo on LinkedIn the other day: I like it. The roots of innovation are found in policies. The heart of the innovation lies in tree trunk technologies. The product of innovation comes from enabling policies and technologies. True. Except that…
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