Mar 14Accelerated DisruptionThis article is sponsored by the Qlik Data Brilliant Podcast In 2019 global venture capital investment in Fintech totaled at least $33.9 Billion. For years the incumbent players had been warning the sector that when the next recession hit, or when #Fintechs faced a “real” crisis, that the sector would…Fintech5 min read
Jul 13, 2021The War on Huawei 5G5G is the term given to 5th generation technology used on broadband cellular networks. By 2025, it is estimated that close to 2 Billion subscribers (roughly 20–25% of the global population) will be using 5G connections for watching streaming video, playing and downloading video games, and making phone calls, etc…China9 min read
Jul 6, 2020The Future of Virtual EventsNormally at this time of year, I’d be winding down for a summer break after an admittedly brutal 3 months on the road speaking at conferences and events all around the world. In 2019 that meant 33 countries for the calendar year and an aggregated audience of more than 30,000…Virtual10 min read
May 4, 2020What does CoVID-19 tell us about the purpose of humanity?I’ve been reading and thinking a great deal about how CoVID-19, AI, Climate Change and such will change the way we act as a species (for a positive future). Unless you like being shut-in, without work, access to basic services and the economy crumbling around you, my guess is you…Technosocialism7 min read
Oct 8, 2019Banks just aren’t that innovative…I was reading some posts last week from my mates Chris Skinner and Ron Shevlin that got me thinking. Since the first neo banks and early challenger banks¹ emerged in the period from 2008–2014, we’ve seen a flurry of innovative new features, apps, and strategies. The largest of the neo’s…Fintech14 min read
Apr 1, 2019Fintech™ Trademark Legal Battle Finally OverNEW YORK, New York., April 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ In what has been described as a hard-fought legal battle the 13th District Court of New York issued a clear victory for the group known as the Fintech Mafia today over a multi-year legal dispute with the US Patents and Trademark Office…Fintech3 min read
Dec 19, 2017Bitcoin: More electricity consumption than the entire planet?Why Bitcoin won’t result in the complete collapse of society, but might result in an energy revolution — If you believe the hype, not only are bitcoin miners using more electricity than a number of small countries, but within just two years, Bitcoin is expected to take the world’s entire energy supply to continue its mining activities. Here are some of the more outlandish claims surrounding Bitcoin’s energy…Bitcoin6 min read
Mar 28, 2016Why we really don’t want AIs to learn from usThe last thing we want are AIs flawed like humanityArtificial Intelligence9 min read
Dec 15, 2015The Death of Bank Products has been greatly under-exaggeratedThis is an excerpt from my new book Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane Since 2005 I’ve been predicting the decline of branch banking. For almost 10 years I fought bankers who decried my assessment that branches would cease to be the most important channel in banking, to be replaced…Banking13 min read
May 30, 2015The Augmented AgeLife in the Smart Lane — 10, 30, 50 years out — what will your life be like? What jobs will our children have? What companies will be the biggest in the world? How will we live? Will our Robot Overlords treat us with kindness or ambivalence? There are three core changes that are coming hard…Future5 min read