Last week’s financial news mentioned an investors’ failed attempt to file a class action against Uniswap UNI , a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange and automated protocol, which facilitates peer-to-peer trading based on blockchain technology. DeFi, short for Decentralized Finance, refers to a set of financial services and applications built on blockchain…

ESG investing has become a hot-button issue, within fintech and beyond, that has moved from the investing community into family dinners and corporate investor calls. Environmental, Social, and Governance has become a kind of Rorschach test where each side of the political, corporate, and investing spectrum can see whatever they…

Over the past 18 months, a significant portion of national economies within the European Union have encountered challenges. It is thus more relevant than ever to discuss the future value creation within our economies and how to safeguard the prosperity of our continent. Undoubtedly, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) serve…

The news that IBM IBM has used a quantum computer to solve a problem that that stumps the leading classical methods is another step on the road to what has become known as “quantum advantage”, where a quantum system solves a problem that cannot be solved by any amount of…

A recently introduced bipartisan bill, the Space Infrastructure Act, could see space systems and services designated as critical national infrastructure by the U.S. government. Space is already one of 13 critical national infrastructure sectors in the U.K. It should come as no surprise that space technology is also something of…

Moore’s Law is the observation and prediction that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. Named from a 1965 article by the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, Gordon Moore, it’s more of an observation than a law, though one that has both guided and driven…

With the interest in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) growing and the debate about the requirements of, goals for and constraints to the architecture of such digital currencies continuing, Mastercard MA has announced a new CBDC Partner Program to to foster collaboration with key players in the space. Slow Start…

A new survey commissioned by digital assets fund manager Nickel Digital found that 92 percent of institutional money managers agree with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) “regulation by enforcement” policy towards the crypto industry. On the survey findings, Anatoly Crachilov, CEO and Founding Partner at Nickel Digital says,…

The remittances space is in the middle of a multi-year transformation as it works to respond to a changing world. Customer types, use cases and pay-in and pay-out methods are all evolving, and while we are many years from the true end of cash use, it has seen a rapid…

As we near the end of summer, many bank executives are taking some well-deserved vacation. But I’d wager that most of them will have a harder time relaxing than usual. That’s because disruption in banking remains high and could intensify. Consider what’s happened in just this calendar year. The effects…