For many people, including star WNBA player Kayla McBride, the quarantine laid bare metal health issues that they could no longer run away from.
Are you addicted to success? You're not alone: a study found that 14 percent of elite performers in athletics would accept a fatal cardiovascular condition in exchange for an Olympic gold medal. Here's Arthur Brooks with the cure for success addiction. …see more
once cash disappears in Sweden, Swedes will jump onto their longboats and set sail towards Lindisfarne first. they will then raid and pillage, stealing bank notes and coins across England, the French coast. soon, Norwegians & Danes will follow. a great army will roam Europe and bring back physical cash north every year. this period will be named “Fiat Danelaw” …see more
Cboe is focusing on the ghost of bitcoin past and the ghost of bitcoin present, while spurning the ghost of bitcoin yet to come.
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as renewed nationalism splinters global tech (trade wars with China being one avatar) how can, if that trend does not abate, not also start to splinter the global financial system? my bet is the global financial system will splinter & morph into a multipolar financial world. …see more
*treasury electronic money* issued by the Fed and that everyone can hold sure sounds like some type of FedCoin, a CBDC.
the AI & automation narrative focused on the balance between how many jobs will be destroyed & how many new jobs will be creates is a false narrative. the real AI & automation narrative should be focused on how centralizing it will be and what to do fight that centralization. #ai #innovation #technology …see more
Mike Carney presenting climate change risks to financial stability: physical risk, liability risk, transition risk. i have only encountered insurtech startups addressing climate change. how about other areas of fintech? anyone? …see more
i.can’t.wait. also, i can’t wait to crowdsource fin.regulators’ compliance enforcement. just imagine: “Mr Bouvier, a private citizen, levied a fine of $570mm on BoA. Mr. Bouvier is also a customer of BoA. There does not appear to be a conflict of interest” …see more
two takeaways: - AI will never mitigate human stupidity - there will always be a job for lawyers, especially as Technologies such as AI, or blockchain permeate every corner of life AI fintech for the win …see more
“front running”, banging the close,” “painting the screen”, “taking out the filth”... when banks do it, it is egregious and they are not fined enough. when crypto-actors do it, there are no issues (according to those crypto-actors and then some) …see more
which will have the most impact on financial services? - sign in w/🍏 - GlobalCoin by Facebook - the SEC/Kik love fest - i don’t play sports …see more
cartography is a lost art as far as corporate innovation is concerned. still looking for a financial services incumbent’s strategy department that has produced the right map to help them navigate the future (which new lands to explore, which new lands to partner with, which new lands to buy, which new lands to invest in, which new lands to avoid). …see more
it also dawns on me that with a successful ZuckCoin, every d2c fintech VC (focused on payments, savings, investing, lending) either has to rethink their investment themes or find another professional occupation.
i bet a trust score for each individual in a small village in 1137 was known to all but not spoken of. it was also impossible to hack. translucent so to speak. i want tech that gives me back control over my trust score. #credit #identity #digital #trust #data …see more
waiting for AWS countermeasures in 3, 2, 1... education, free audits, new cybersecurity offerings, task forces, pooling of security threats assessments... - if that is not already the case. #cybersecurity #aws #fintech #banking #banks #cloudcomputing …see more
let’s talk monetary frameworks applied to crypto. currently, cryptoc fluctuates much like fiat, freely, within a “post Bretton Woods framework”. within the crypto world, Bitcoin can be viewed as having the same role as the $ in the fiat world. similarities abound! stablecoins (i use term to also include digital coupons backed 1:1 by fiat), however ill designed, aspire to bring stability, very much akin to a Bretton Woods monetary framework, with rules that strive to negotiate a monetary order. a return to a negotiated order for fiat currencies should not be ruled out & indeed is a potential path forward (see trade wars), to bring stability. currently the stablecoin movement is uncoordinated, similar to proto c-banks acting on their own, within walled gardens. might we envision a crypto monetary framework where stablecoins (or what comes after the current crop) & main protocols (bitcoin, ethereum & other main crypto) where there is coordination to usher tight bands of fluctuation? - assuming a modicum of sensible regulation to fight manipulation & fraud. that might be a logical evolution & help bring the much needed stability necessary to mass institutional or retail adoption everyone desperately seeks? #crypto #centralbanks #bitcoin #ethereum #cryptocurrencies …see more
lower or negative rates destroys societies (banks too), exhibit 820,612 also probably means consumer borrowing rates will go down right?
any private think tank that shills for corporate interests is a cancer for free markets. eurofi as a think tank for financial services fits that mold (no consumer, no startup, no no neutral representation). also, any entity created by three Frenchmen, all former top civil servants, will only want to perpetuate centralization of power. #financialservices #eu #lobbying #banks #banking #innovation #regulation …see more