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Ilias Hatzis started his first company, an internet search engine, during the dot-com era & now focusses on crypto.
Efi Pylarinou worked for top tier Wall Street firms and is now a top global Fintech influencer.
Jessica Ellerm is CEO of Zuper Superannuation & previously worked for a top Fintech startup, Tyro.
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Monday Ilias Hatzis @iliashatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at Mercato Blockchain Corporation AG and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) wrote Bitcoin Bears vs Bulls
Bitcoin started the year with a bang. In the last 24 hours it went up 3%, topping $9,000. The entire week has been exciting week, with one rally after another feeding the bulls. Bitcoin has exploded by over 30% since January 1, and we’re just a couple of weeks into 2020. What a difference from what happened in January 2018. Market watchers are pointing to Bitcoin’s halving as the catalyst for the next big price push.
Editor note: Ilias looks at many factors such as halvening and Chinese New Year behind the Bitcoin Bears vs Bulls market tug of war.
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Tuesday Efi Pylarinou @efipm our Swiss-based Fintech Adviser, founder of Efi Pylarinou Advisory and a Fintech/Blockchain influencer – No.3 influencer in the finance sector by Refinitiv Global Social Media 2019 wrote A Fintech side-effect: Excessive Corporate Control by the Big Three
The growth of the ETF sector is well documented and the robo-advisory fintech growth merits a piece of this `success`. According to my estimates, last year digital investing from startups and incumbents represented roughly 12% of the entire ETF market. This is of course, is from the point of investors’ point of view. Earlier this month I looked at facts and figures for ETF issuers.
Editor note: Platforms tend to dominance based on network effects. Yet the extent of dominance in ETFs is surprising. As Efi points out “‘The Big Three` are the largest shareholders in 40% of all publicly traded stocks in the US”. Her conclusion that “We need more fintechs innovating in the shareholder voting process” seems like a problem amenable to technology and a creative entrepreneur. Watch this space.
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Wednesday Jessica Ellerm @jessicaellerm, our Australia-based Fintech entrepreneur and thought leader specializing in Small Business and the Gig Economy & CEO/Co-Founder of Zuper, a new superannuation startup in Australia wrote Green Home Loans A Reality Downunder
The world must go green. How green is probably a debatable question, but slowly the tide is turning towards renewables and fossil fuel alternatives, with many hard-nosed climate conservatives even beginning to thaw on the issue.
Finance has a huge role to play in this greenification of the world. In Australia, companies like Ratesetter are leading the way in helping consumers access finance specifically to help fund the purchase and/or installation of an Approved National Clean Energy Product. This includes air source heat pumps, batteries for solar systems, energy efficient air conditioning, low energy lighting, hybrid cars and trucks, solar panels and much more.
Editor note: The awful reality of the fires in Australia has put some green initiatives onto the front burner, not the worthy but ignorable back burner of the past.
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Thursday Patrick Kelahan @insuranceeleph1, our US based Insurtech expert (a CX, engineering & insurance professional, working with Insurers, Attorneys & Owners who also serves the insurance and Fintech world as the ‘Insurance Elephant’) wrote Blueprint One- a building plan for a Lloyd’s digital/culture change decade, or pie in the culture change sky?
It’s really a tour de force, the 146 page Blueprint One recently released by leadership at Lloyd’s, a detailed road map for the staff and approximate ninety syndicate players that comprise the firm, its reinsurers, customers, associated MGAs, vendors, brokers and agents. Plans, flow charts and implementation strategy that are planned for the next two years, with all the new moving parts in synch by close of 2022. Oh, and did I mention the £35 billion in annual premiums that the organization generates through its stakeholders? Bold plans for a three-hundred-year tenure organization. And there is the unmentioned tension- an entrenched business model planning to evolve into an agile, cutting edge tech leader.
Editor note: Lloyd’s is a fascinating entity in Insurance, more ecosystem than traditional corporate and a great way of insuring big complex risk. How they change is a critical part of the transformation of Insurance. How they build the technology will determine success IMHO.
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Friday Bernard Lunn, CEO of Daily Fintech and author of The Blockchain Economy, wrote: Security Token news for Week ending 24 January 2020
Editor note: This weekly snapshot is the news that matters for busy senior people in the Security Token market.
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