Part 4 How many poles in a multipolar world? 

I think there will be two poles in a multipolar world based on two spheres of influence – the Chinese and American spheres. That is putting it in old fashioned nationalist terms. Another way it is being framed by America is freedom/democracy vs autocracy. China will frame it differently as wealth distribution vs wealth inequality. […]

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This Week in Fintech ending 15 April 2022

  This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at  Kryptonio a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto, without private keys or passwords and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) […]

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XBRL News about HK tax reporting, project Ellipse and ESEF

Here are the three most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1  Getting ready for XBRL tax reporting in Hong Kong with draft taxonomy package Hong Kong’s Inland Revenue Department (IRD) has released a preliminary version of its new IRD Taxonomy Package, in […]

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Return on Equity Trends Up, As Leaders’ Bets Pay Off

A combination of large pay-outs for different kinds of carriers and the impact of low interest rates in developed markets has caused the average total shareholder return of publicly held insurance companies to drop into negative territory. The average return was much below the 15% average return recorded in other industries, pushing insurance to near […]

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Stablecoin News for the week ending Wednesday 13th April.

Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Come back Zuck all is forgiven! We spent so much time pondering Libra, then Diem, that when Facebook gave up because it could not make any headway with Regulators, it almost felt like nothing new would happen in the stablecoin space […]

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Part 3 A multipolar global reserve currency future? 

No single contender looks like an obvious fit: USA/USD is current reserve currency but no reserve currency lasts forever.   Europe/EU is a weird mix of independent countries and a single currency.   China/CNY is the emerging economic power but their currency is not fully convertible yet and not trusted in many parts of the […]

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The Rise of Lightning

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN) was the talk of the town this past week. Watching some of the videos from the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, what stood out was that a string of companies, including Robinhood, Cash App, and Strike, unveiled support and expanded uses for the Lightning Network at the conference. Ilias Louis Hatzis […]

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This Week in Fintech ending 8th April 2022

This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at  Kryptonio a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto, without private keys or passwords and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) @iliashatzis […]

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