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Sibos – the Olympics of Banking For over four decades, SWIFT's Sibos event has been the premier annual gathering for the global financial industry. Sibos provides a platform for banks, financial insti...
Everything Effects Everything - The weight of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing everyday even if we do not see it. The use of AI goes back years before most had ever heard the term AI. Slowly A...
The dream of bitcoin is not just about fulfilling the fantasies you have in your brain when shutting your eyes. The reality of bitcoin is about not giving up on that dream. That means doing the work n...
CBDCs – But WHY? Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) are being researched by central banks and governments of 87 countries and has already been launched in 11 countries. The key question is: But ...
eTRADE eMBRACEING eCOMMERCE Trade, acquiring things we need and want, is the oldest profession known to man. Now I know what everyone thinks of as the oldest profession, but that would not be possible...
CRYPTO to CBDC - Payments have gone through significant innovation in recent history. Each time innovation has improved the convenience, speed, and security of money. Let’s review these money mileston...
Rotten to the Banks’ Core - Mr. Bank, is your core rotten? Do you suffer with manual entries, tickets anyone? Are your internal IT support costs going through the roof? Shut out of the latest Fintech ...
Digital or Open Banking! Just the other day, I was talking with a banking friend. We were discussing the changes that have happened and what tomorrow may bring. He commented that Digital Banking will...
BUBBLENOMICS BubbleNomics, it’s new, it’s exciting, it’s a failure? The world has really changed. It has been a year since the COVID-19 Pandemic has infected the globe. Everything has been touched and...
Who can it be now? Who can it be knocking at my door? Go 'way, don't come 'round here no more. Who can it be now? These 1981 lyrics of Men at Work foretold the usage of Facial Recognition (FR) today. ...
UnBanking the Banked Time to stop the monkey see, monkey do nonsense. The idea of money started with rocks to seashells to gold to paper notes. This has been the greatest magic illusionary trick ever....
Bond-Fires of the Vanities, The US Government plan to save the Bond Market, Many of you may remember the 1987 Tom Wolfe book that became the 1990 movie “Bonfires of the Vanities”. The story is about...