Home truths from Martin Vander Meyer Market turmoil is the dominant subject in the Spectator’s weekly look at financial matters. Incidentally today’s Sunday Telegraph also contained an interview with Peter Smith the American boss of the Uk’s largest digital coin exchange Blockchain .com. who bemoans the lack of innovation in NFT’s by the […]
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Here are the three most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1 IASB issues IFRS accounting taxonomy update The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has today issued an update to the IFRS Accounting Taxonomy 2021 to reflect the amendments: … No standard is […]
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Since the first wave of challenger banks arrived around 2015 with basic account offerings, the biggest players branched out into lending, stock trading, savings, and junior accounts. Very few took decisive steps into the insurance market. As they sought competitive advantages, leading neobanks have since expanded their product offerings with insurance and boosted revenues with […]
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. CBDC development and research continues. CBDC is the ultimate stablecoin, but the design and operational choices are not straightforward and involve substantial implementation risk (unless of course you are China). So we will not be seeing any Silicon Valley “move fast […]
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One reason why Web3 has some negative chatter is that it is being used to hype some crypto projects. The implied correlation is Web3 is good so crypto project X is good. I am NOT promoting any crypto projects, but I think that Web3 based on decentralised and permissionless exchange of value is real and […]
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Earlier today when I was searching on Google for crypto mergers and acquisitions over the last thirty days, I found stories like “ConsenSys acquires MyCrypto, plans to merge it with Metamask”, “OpenSea buys DeFi wallet startup Dharma Labs”, “Coinbase buys FairX to launch crypto derivatives”. PwC reported in early February that crypto mergers and acquisition […]
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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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Fintech investment in UK bigger than France Germany and China combined! It seems that Brexit has had little impact on inward investment in the Fintech sector. What always amazes me is the way the press always seem surprised that this is happening and has been happening for years. There must be some underlying sentiment […]
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Here are the three most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1 2022 Regtech outlook 2021 was a tipping point as FinTech became real and the banking sector started to frame the next steps required for a truly digital infrastructure. The need for an […]
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Across economies, there is rising evidence of correlation between total shareholder return (TSR) and digital capabilities. “Digital champions” had annual TSRs that were 5% higher than “digital laggards”. They were also faster growing with nearly 6% higher annual premium growth and 1.8X higher valuation multiples. Their net promoter scores were 8 points higher. Successful digital […]
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