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Obscure fintech hits $310bn valuation in GameStop-style surge

Obscure fintech hits $310bn valuation in GameStop-style surge

In what appears to be a GameStop-style retail investor-frenzy, shares in a little-known Asian fintech have soared more than 21,000% since its IPO less than a month ago, making it more valuable than Bank of America.

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UK Parliament opens inquiry into crypto sector

UK Parliament opens inquiry into crypto sector

Opportunities surrounding ESG regulation & changing customer demands

Opportunities surrounding ESG regulation & changing customer demands

Robinhood axes 23% of staff

Robinhood axes 23% of staff

ASX calls in Accenture to assess Chess replacement project

ASX calls in Accenture to assess Chess replacement project

Co-operative Bank shifts treasury operations to the cloud

Co-operative Bank shifts treasury operations to the cloud

UK legal taskforce probes rules underpinning securities issuance on blockchain

UK legal taskforce probes rules underpinning securities issuance on blockchain

Credit Suisse teams with Girls Who Code to diversify tech talent

Credit Suisse teams with Girls Who Code to diversify tech talent

YES Bank to raise $1.1 billion in 10% private equity sale

YES Bank to raise $1.1 billion in 10% private equity sale

Office of Financial Research pilots data hub for climate-risk assessments

Office of Financial Research pilots data hub for climate-risk assessments

FTX and Coinbase invest in 'Bloomberg for crypto' Coinfeeds

FTX and Coinbase invest in 'Bloomberg for crypto' Coinfeeds

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Cryptocurrency Insights  

Crypto Analysis Case Study - ‘Three Arrows Capital’: PART IV

Rodrigo Zepeda

Rodrigo Zepeda - Storm-7 Consulting Limited - London

Digital Sales  

5 things online sellers should consider before chasing venture capital

Mindaugas Mikalajūnas

Mindaugas Mikalajūnas - SME Finance - Vilnius

Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation  

Are we ready for the democratization of finance that DeFi and the Metaverse are bringing?

Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger - UXDA - Riga

Cryptocurrency Insights  

Biggest risk of issuing CBDC

Abhinav Paliwal

Abhinav Paliwal - PayNet Systems - India

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Opportunities surrounding ESG regulation & changing customer demands

Opportunities surrounding ESG regulation & changing customer demands

Alexandre Duret, Product Director, Wealth, Temenos, speaks at TCF 2022 about the rising interest in ESG from consumers, businesses and banks, what opportunities this market presents for banks and what innovations Temenos is developing to help banks meet customer and regulatory demands.
Bank of America shares merchant advice ahead of annual business reviews

Bank of America shares merchant advice ahead of annual business reviews

Chris Jameson, Co-head of Product Management, Global Transaction Services, EMEA, speaks at MPE 2022 about how companies should consider merchant solutions as part of their business reviews, the new payment solutions available that companies can draw on, and how transaction banks can support companies to keep up with the rapid pace of change in the payments space.
Empowering merchants through embedded finance

Empowering merchants through embedded finance

Sarel Tal, VP EMEA, Rapyd speaks at MPE 2022 about Rapyd's business and ascent from the original foundation story to their current global scale, the development of embedded finance since covid and how it has enabled the faster, more efficient expansion of merchants core services.
Responding to the SME challenge through collaboration

Responding to the SME challenge through collaboration

Rob Wint, Product Director, Temenos, & Jeff Wright, Group Head, Client Solutions & Speciality Businesses, Canadian Western Bank, speak at TCF 2022 about the SME challenge, the response to that challenge through collaboration between CWB and Temenos, and how this will benefit the client experience.
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Paige McNamee

The fintech sentiment: Fintech’s take on the BoE’s rate hike

Paige McNamee - Finextra Research
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Ireland's AIB to scrap ATMs at 70 branches
Lawrence Kinsella

Lawrence Kinsella

  Pay attention to the drive to stop using cash and start using digital, this gives way too much power to the state. Notice in Canada where Trudeau froze people's bank accounts merely because they supported the truckers. If you didn't have cash on hand you couldn't get anything

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Fintech valuations fall by half a trillion
Chris Garner

Chris Garner

  Technology is no longer a financial tool. It’s an industry in itself. Remember the words of Warren Buffet 'When people get scared I get greedy'. Read to the end of the article and you will see one small caveat that an H2 bounce-back is expected. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6955074404108091392?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web

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The UK ‘Greenwashing’ Briefing Series: PART IV
Richard Peers

Richard Peers

  Thanks for this thoughtful and well researched blog series Rodrigo.  I think this is so much better than the Tariq Fancy analysis which is just rank cynicism. You highlight the compexity, lack of rewards, incentives, penalties, motivation, cultural inertia etc.  I would argue that serious ESG only really started in the UK around 2018 with the launch of the BoE paper "Transition in thinking the impact of climate change on the UK Banking sector",. Before that it was CSR, responsible investing and not a main board issue sadly.  So without giving the industry a pass for one moment, I have seen the activity, responsibility, directives, regulations and now prosecutions ramp up significantly in the last four years and expect that to continue over the next few years.  But again you are right we need to use the power of fintech's data, NGO's citizens to crowd in and blow the whistle where we see malpractice.  But also help those FSI's that are transitioning through this complexity with positive intent and progress, evidenced  via transparent scorecards.  

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Motive Partners raises $2.45 billion for new fintech fund
Chris Garner

Chris Garner

  Organisations that buck the trend are clearly ones to watch. I work in a Motive portfolio company and am based in the Motive London office, so I know.

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Tietoevry considers spin-off and listing of banking unit

Tietoevry considers spin-off and listing of banking unit

UK to regulate stablecoins as part of Finance bill

UK to regulate stablecoins as part of Finance bill

Ireland's AIB to scrap ATMs at 70 branches

Ireland's AIB to scrap ATMs at 70 branches

Fintech valuations fall by half a trillion

Fintech valuations fall by half a trillion

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Alex Duggan

Digitising reconciliation as a business case in itself

Alex Duggan - Capital Market Solutions Head, Cognizant
Elsewhere...

  1. The Telegraph

    Britain can rip up Brussels red tape after Brexit, says Klarna boss

  2. New York Times

    Bank tried to kill crypto and failed. Now they're embracing it (slowly)

  3. The Defiant

    SocGen wants to borrow 20M Dai on MakerDAO using tokenized bonds as collateral

  4. BBC

    Why small investors are piling into share-trading apps

  5. Yahoo!Finance

    Bitcoin is officially a new asset class: Goldman Sachs

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Marco Mottadelli

Six months to forget? The year (so far) in review

Marco Mottadelli - Fineco Bank