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- decentralized finance 64
- crypto 56
- paytech 41
- neobank 39
- philosophy 39
- digital transformation 37
- digital investing 33
- metaverse 30
- digital lending 27
- NFTs and digital objects 26
- exchanges / cap mkts 25
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- Fractals & reflexivity 8
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decentralized finance
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- Oct 10, 2022 The Roaring Twenties of Populism, Institutionalism, and Technology's Meaning
- Dec 15, 2021 The State of Decentralized network M&A in 2021, with Polygon's $650MM of acquisitions
- Dec 3, 2021 Origins of Metamask's 20 million Web3 users, with co-founder Dan Finlay
- Nov 17, 2021 The role of Alameda and Cumberland as USDT market makers
- Nov 12, 2021 DAOs 101, with SharkDAO, PartyDAO, and Juicebox contributor Nicholas
- Nov 3, 2021 Why Facebook is domain squatting on the Metaverse
- Oct 29, 2021 Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov on building the global decentralized oracle network powering DeFi and Web3
- Oct 27, 2021 DeFi 2.0 Primer (part 2): Tokemak aims to aggregate and improve market making, like a decentralized Citadel Oct 27 3
- Oct 21, 2021 DeFi 2.0 Primer (part 1): Rise of Protocol Owned Liquidity and Olympus DAO mechanics
- Oct 13, 2021 The Law of Unintended Consequences via Wells Fargo, Divergence Ventures, DeFi designs, and the Federal Reserve
- Oct 8, 2021 CEO of Yield App, Tim Frost, on integrating DeFi Yield products into a regulated Fintech company
- Sep 24, 2021 What's next in Web3? Tachyon Accelerator's MD Gabriel Anderson on early stage in NFTs, DeFi, & Crypto
- Sep 10, 2021 Art Blocks CEO Erick Calderon on Generative Art, Blockchains, and the NFT movement
- Aug 30, 2021 OnlyFans bank-forced adult content ban, its failure, and the Metaphysics of Finance
- Aug 27, 2021 Is Fintech or DeFi Bigger? And Who eats Whom? Hosted by The Defiant
- Aug 5, 2021 Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum on the 4th Industrial Revolution, the role of Law, Government, and DAOs, and the Creator Economy
- Jul 19, 2021 The difference between Gen Z and Millennial online culture, resulting in DAOs, decentralization, and creative financial communities
- Jun 21, 2021 What the market misses about Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2021
- Jun 7, 2021 Purpose of Identity, its connection to finance, and implementations in the Euro digital wallet and DeFi protocols
- Jun 4, 2021 Developing regenerative finance using memes for the public good, with Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin
- May 21, 2021 Rob Leshner of Compound on creating a multi-billion DeFi lending protocol, and innovation under constraint
- May 17, 2021 Marqeta's $300MM of revenue & Ethereum's $20B in ann. transaction fees highlight opportunity and industry structure
- Apr 23, 2021 Building the foundational money DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) in DeFi, with Rune Christensen of Maker Foundation
- Mar 29, 2021 Are the NFT and DeFi markets recreating traditional human hierarchies through new social capital?
- Mar 26, 2021 Uniswap's V3 upgrade, the future of Automated Market Makers, and the financial compression algorithm
- Mar 19, 2021 Camila Russo of The Defiant and author of The Infinite Machine discusses crypto journalism, writing about Ethereum's inception, $69M NFTs, and building a DeFi community
- Mar 12, 2021 Joe Lubin, ConsenSys CEO and Ethereum co-founder discusses AI, macroeconomics, philosophy, and the future of the $200 billion Ethereum network
- Feb 26, 2021 $60B digital capital markets, crypto law and regulation, and Ethereum Layer 2 scaling, with Pat Berarducci
- Feb 25, 2021 Why Coinbase's $100B+ valuation makes sense, and how to compare it to $60B Ethereum DeFi, and to crypto-king Binance
- Feb 8, 2021 Non-fungible tokens and crypto art (like Hashmasks) will create multi-billion markets for digital objects with financial features
- Jan 29, 2021 The path from institutional finance (Goldman) to enterprise blockchain (PwC) to the $26B edge of DeFi innovation (Aave) with Ajit Tripathi
- Jan 11, 2021 How the OCC is building Crypto America and saving banks from extinction
- Dec 21, 2020 Crypto regulatory wargames with FinCen, FCA, and the US House of Reps, impacting Paxos, Compound, BBVA, and Northern Trust
- Dec 18, 2020 Connecting the $2T in Art owned by UHNW investors, with the rise of crypto art and Beeple's $3.5MM NFT digital art auction
- Dec 11, 2020 5 Reactions to Messari's 134 page crypto report
- Nov 30, 2020 Mergers and Acquisitions in open-source Decentralized Finance, and its $5 billion market capitalization
- Nov 27, 2020 Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures on DeFi and NFT investing and acceleration
- Nov 20, 2020 How roboadvisors, B2C fintechs, and high tech giants are causing deep shifts in wealth management
- Oct 19, 2020 From Fintech to Augmented Reality Commerce to Artificially Intelligent Agents
- Oct 16, 2020 Virtual communities and digital worlds are the difference between Finance Incumbents, Fintech, and DeFi
- Oct 9, 2020 Why Peer-to-Peer models fail against oligopoly, with Lending Club shutting down p2p platform, Seedrs/Crowdcube merging, and Morgan Stanley buying Eaton Vance for $7B
- Sep 28, 2020 DeFi should take the middle road between the extremes of QAnon and J.P. Morgan
- Sep 18, 2020 Finance blood in the water ($900B wasted on digital transformation) is why neobank Chime is $15B, and why Uniswap could be next
- Sep 7, 2020 How signalling explains SoftBank's $4 billion call option trade, SushiSwap's vampire attack, and why we make Art
- Sep 1, 2020 J.P.Morgan's Quorum becomes part of ConsenSys, putting Ethereum at heart of commercial and financial infrastructure
- Aug 28, 2020 Maturation of institutional crypto custody and prime brokerage with BitGo's Mike Belshe
- Aug 24, 2020 The absurdity of how the Internet is both beautiful and awful, and the memetic infection of Finance
- Aug 21, 2020 Decentralized Finance 101 with Kerman Kohli
- Aug 3, 2020 The symbolic battle over TikTok, intellectual property, and blockchain-based finance
- Jul 24, 2020 The evolution of DeFi with Steven Becker of MakerDAO and Lucas Vogelsang of Centrifuge
- Jul 20, 2020 How Robinhood makes $90MM from order flow, and how DeFi is different
- Jul 17, 2020 Figure, SoFi and the Disruption of Finance with Mike Cagney
- Jul 6, 2020 The Soviet Pyramid Scheme eating 10% of Ethereum and 50% of Paxos Stablecoin
- Jun 29, 2020 Wirecard's collapse hurts Fintech & Crypto start-ups, like Lehman and Enron burned the economy
- Jun 22, 2020 Everyone should trade the billions in DeFi Structured Products! Or do digital asset derivatives need custodians and regulators?
- May 11, 2020 $700B Franklin Templeton buys wealth tech AdvisorEngine, while digital investing DeFi revolution only starting
- Mar 16, 2020 Slowing GDP growth by 1.5% is like another 10 million people getting infected with coronovirus, and other analysis on financial fragility
- Mar 9, 2020 Why Facebook's Libra needs to change course, Ethereum's Fintech promise, and a look at JP Morgan's blockchain analysis
- Feb 17, 2020 Worldline's $8B acquisition of Ingenico's $3B revenue would barely pay for Robinhood or Revolut's valuations
- Dec 23, 2019 Top 5 Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020 and beyond
- Sep 30, 2019 You don't get to cheat just because you like to win -- on WeWork, Politics, and Fintech
- Sep 16, 2019 Fintech has democratized access to existing financial products, but not changed how they are manufactured
- Aug 19, 2019 Robocop vs. Terminator in Fintech; Comparing DeFi originations to Digital Lenders in the early years
- Jul 1, 2019 $1B moved for $0.02 fee on Binance, $600M of Tether printed, $200M in DeFi lending
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crypto
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- Dec 17, 2021 Pioneering Crypto ETPs to $3B in assets in 3 years, with 21Shares CEO Hany Rashwan
- Dec 10, 2021 Investing in real estate, crypto, and startups using your retirement account, with Rocket Dollar CEO Henry Yoshida
- Dec 3, 2021 Origins of Metamask's 20 million Web3 users, with co-founder Dan Finlay
- Nov 26, 2021 Powering the FX behind Africa's trillion-dollar growth, with Aza CEO Elizabeth Rossiello
- Oct 27, 2021 DeFi 2.0 Primer (part 2): Tokemak aims to aggregate and improve market making, like a decentralized Citadel Oct 27 3
- Oct 20, 2021 Scaling Web3 with the $10B+ Polygon protocol, with COO Sandeep Nailwal
- Oct 13, 2021 The Law of Unintended Consequences via Wells Fargo, Divergence Ventures, DeFi designs, and the Federal Reserve
- Oct 8, 2021 CEO of Yield App, Tim Frost, on integrating DeFi Yield products into a regulated Fintech company
- Sep 24, 2021 What's next in Web3? Tachyon Accelerator's MD Gabriel Anderson on early stage in NFTs, DeFi, & Crypto
- Sep 13, 2021 The principle behind Mastercard's CipherTrace acquisition, L1 growth, and IRS getting your bank data
- Aug 27, 2021 Is Fintech or DeFi Bigger? And Who eats Whom? Hosted by The Defiant
- Aug 23, 2021 Creating, Transacting, and Storing Value in the Financial Metaverse of NFTs, DAOs, and DeFi
- Aug 16, 2021 Global and Crypto Macroeconomics in August 2021, from GDP to BTC to Web3
- Aug 9, 2021 Acquisition arbitrage between public and private fintech revenues, highlighted by Figure and Starling
- Aug 5, 2021 Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum on the 4th Industrial Revolution, the role of Law, Government, and DAOs, and the Creator Economy
- Jul 23, 2021 eToro CEO Yoni Assia on the purpose of investing, crypto assets, and building a $10B fintech
- Jul 12, 2021 The fundamentals of Circle's $4.5B SPAC, Robinhood's IPO, and the $30B of fintech venture capital
- Jul 1, 2021 Building the best payments fiat to crypto onramp, with Ivan Soto-Wright of MoonPay
- Jun 21, 2021 What the market misses about Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2021
- Jun 4, 2021 Developing regenerative finance using memes for the public good, with Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin
- May 24, 2021 Bitcoin price falling doesn't mean what Paul Krugman claims
- May 7, 2021 Decentralized Identity and the Metaverse, with Michael Sena of The Ceramic Network
- Apr 12, 2021 The "fundamental" economic design driving crypto valuation to $2 trillion
- Apr 5, 2021 Getting paid now for future performance with Pipe's $150MM raise and BitClout's $200MM of Bitcoin
- Mar 19, 2021 Camila Russo of The Defiant and author of The Infinite Machine discusses crypto journalism, writing about Ethereum's inception, $69M NFTs, and building a DeFi community
- Mar 12, 2021 Joe Lubin, ConsenSys CEO and Ethereum co-founder discusses AI, macroeconomics, philosophy, and the future of the $200 billion Ethereum network
- Mar 1, 2021 The Federal Reserve Payment Processor, its $100B of revenue, and whether blockchains and L2s can match the value it settles
- Feb 26, 2021 $60B digital capital markets, crypto law and regulation, and Ethereum Layer 2 scaling, with Pat Berarducci
- Feb 25, 2021 Why Coinbase's $100B+ valuation makes sense, and how to compare it to $60B Ethereum DeFi, and to crypto-king Binance
- Jan 11, 2021 How the OCC is building Crypto America and saving banks from extinction
- Jan 4, 2021 What do Bitcoin, Ethereum, GDP, unemployment, and Covid have in common in 2021?
- Dec 21, 2020 Crypto regulatory wargames with FinCen, FCA, and the US House of Reps, impacting Paxos, Compound, BBVA, and Northern Trust
- Dec 11, 2020 5 Reactions to Messari's 134 page crypto report
- Nov 30, 2020 Mergers and Acquisitions in open-source Decentralized Finance, and its $5 billion market capitalization
- Nov 27, 2020 Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures on DeFi and NFT investing and acceleration
- Nov 9, 2020 Will the Blockchain Economy run on Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Central Bank Digital Currency?
- Oct 30, 2020 Understanding Robinhood, Derivatives, and Market Makers with Paul Rowady of Alphacution
- Oct 19, 2020 From Fintech to Augmented Reality Commerce to Artificially Intelligent Agents
- Oct 12, 2020 The Harvard Endowment and alternative assets, Square buys $50MM of Bitcoin, Killer Mike launching a Bank and Akon building a $6B smart city
- Sep 14, 2020 Learnings from Microsoft & Visa integrating personal financial data into Excel, and the open ecosystems of Google Sheets and MetaMask
- Aug 28, 2020 Maturation of institutional crypto custody and prime brokerage with BitGo's Mike Belshe
- Aug 21, 2020 Decentralized Finance 101 with Kerman Kohli
- Jul 24, 2020 The evolution of DeFi with Steven Becker of MakerDAO and Lucas Vogelsang of Centrifuge
- Jul 20, 2020 How Robinhood makes $90MM from order flow, and how DeFi is different
- Jul 17, 2020 Figure, SoFi and the Disruption of Finance with Mike Cagney
- Jul 13, 2020 How Coinbase Pre-IPO Economics Could Get a $15 Billion Valuation
- Jul 6, 2020 The Soviet Pyramid Scheme eating 10% of Ethereum and 50% of Paxos Stablecoin
- Jun 22, 2020 Everyone should trade the billions in DeFi Structured Products! Or do digital asset derivatives need custodians and regulators?
- May 11, 2020 $700B Franklin Templeton buys wealth tech AdvisorEngine, while digital investing DeFi revolution only starting
- Apr 24, 2020 The Grand Theory of the Universe
- Dec 23, 2019 Top 5 Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020 and beyond
- Nov 11, 2019 Blockchain progress through the lens of Binance's $180MM profit and Greensill's $1.5B SoftBank raise
- Oct 14, 2019 The political limits of commerce -- Telegram's $1.7B US offering and NBA's $1.5B China deal
- Sep 16, 2019 Fintech has democratized access to existing financial products, but not changed how they are manufactured
- May 27, 2019 How the SEC is wrong about the Internet and the Bitcoin ETF
- May 6, 2019 Facebook and Bitfinex both want $1 Billion for Crypto Stablecoins
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paytech
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- Dec 3, 2021 Origins of Metamask's 20 million Web3 users, with co-founder Dan Finlay
- Dec 1, 2021 What will Stripe do in crypto?
- Nov 26, 2021 Powering the FX behind Africa's trillion-dollar growth, with Aza CEO Elizabeth Rossiello
- Nov 19, 2021 Digitizing banks with better BNPL, Underwriting, and Anti-Fraud Tech, with Amount CEO Adam Hughes
- Nov 10, 2021 Plaid's payments ecosystem & Affirm's decoupled debit card reveal embedded finance Trojan Horse
- Oct 22, 2021 How China is winning the race in Fintech, Payments, and CBDCs, with Fintech expert Richard Turrin
- Sep 29, 2021 Will Paypal's digital wallet beat Google Pay and Square Cash App on shopping & banking?
- Sep 20, 2021 Unlocking Demand-side growth with Square's payment network and Goldman's GreenSky acquisition
- Sep 13, 2021 The principle behind Mastercard's CipherTrace acquisition, L1 growth, and IRS getting your bank data
- Aug 30, 2021 OnlyFans bank-forced adult content ban, its failure, and the Metaphysics of Finance
- Aug 13, 2021 Treasury Prime CEO Chris Dean on Banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, and the evolution of FinTech API infrastructure
- Jul 12, 2021 The fundamentals of Circle's $4.5B SPAC, Robinhood's IPO, and the $30B of fintech venture capital
- Jul 8, 2021 Fintech venture investing after a career in the US treasury and Wall St equity research, with Patrick Pinschmidt of MiddleGame Ventures Jul 9 2
- Jul 1, 2021 Building the best payments fiat to crypto onramp, with Ivan Soto-Wright of MoonPay
- May 17, 2021 Marqeta's $300MM of revenue & Ethereum's $20B in ann. transaction fees highlight opportunity and industry structure
- Apr 30, 2021 Scaling B2B cross-border payments and the competition between global payment rails, with Marwan Forzley of Veem
- Apr 16, 2021 Building global paytech companies and communities with Anil Aggarwal of TxVia, Money2020, and Fintech Meetup
- Mar 8, 2021 Why Square bought Jay Z's music service Tidal for $300MM, and how the NFT-driven transformation of music royalties and ownership can explain this future
- Mar 1, 2021 The Federal Reserve Payment Processor, its $100B of revenue, and whether blockchains and L2s can match the value it settles
- Feb 15, 2021 How $12 Billion in Fintech SPAC capital is teaching us about the economics of target unicorns like Payoneer, Apex, SoFi, and MoneyLion
- Jan 18, 2021 Explaining ~100x revenue multiples for Affirm, Checkout, Rapyd, and other fintech companies using systems theory
- Jan 15, 2021 Who wins and loses in the Plaid/Visa divorce, and the $10 Billion in new Fintech SPACs (Spakkt and Spofi), with Will Beeson
- Dec 7, 2020 Who are the customers of Embedded Finance, and what do they reveal about Stripe, Affirm, DriveWealth, and Green Dot?
- Nov 23, 2020 Google has come to Banking. What does that mean, and what should we do about it?
- Nov 9, 2020 Will the Blockchain Economy run on Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Central Bank Digital Currency?
- Oct 12, 2020 The Harvard Endowment and alternative assets, Square buys $50MM of Bitcoin, Killer Mike launching a Bank and Akon building a $6B smart city
- Sep 21, 2020 Is Ant Financial the best Fintech in the world? Let's analyze the IPO!
- Aug 14, 2020 Millions of users and millions in losses -- analyzing neobanks Monzo, Starling, and Revolut
- Jul 31, 2020 Growth of brand banking, tragedy of OnDeck vs. Kabbage, and the Indian Fintech war between WhatsApp and WeChat
- Jun 29, 2020 Wirecard's collapse hurts Fintech & Crypto start-ups, like Lehman and Enron burned the economy
- Jun 26, 2020 WhatsApp Payments Halted in Brazil, Stripe competitor Checkout.com is Worth $5.5B, Upgrade raises $40MM
- Jun 19, 2020 How to Build a $3.5B Profitable Digital Bank with Tinkoff
- Jun 12, 2020 Varo's $240M and Marqeta's $150M Rounds, Should Digital Banks Lend? and Fintech Gets Meta
- Jun 5, 2020 Cash App, Venmo, Digital Wallets and Challenger Banks with ARK Invest
- May 1, 2020 Libra, Stablecoins, CBDCs and the Need for Digital Money
- Jan 27, 2020 How are Central Bank Digital Currencies like Lithium-ion Batteries, and how do you build a CBDC today?
- Jan 20, 2020 Is Plaid cheap at $5.3 billion for $500 billion Visa?
- Aug 27, 2019 Fighting Chinese Artificial Intelligence with lasers and American Crypto with European Central Banks
- Jun 24, 2019 Lessons from Uber's JUMP bikes on evolution in capitalism, Facebook's crypto money monopoly
- Jun 3, 2019 $20 Billion TSYS acquisition in the shadow of Alibaba's $500B SME aggregation
- May 6, 2019 Facebook and Bitfinex both want $1 Billion for Crypto Stablecoins
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neobank
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- Dec 8, 2021 What Goldman's institutional financial cloud on Amazon means for embedded finance
- Nov 19, 2021 Digitizing banks with better BNPL, Underwriting, and Anti-Fraud Tech, with Amount CEO Adam Hughes
- Nov 10, 2021 Plaid's payments ecosystem & Affirm's decoupled debit card reveal embedded finance Trojan Horse
- Sep 29, 2021 Will Paypal's digital wallet beat Google Pay and Square Cash App on shopping & banking?
- Sep 20, 2021 Unlocking Demand-side growth with Square's payment network and Goldman's GreenSky acquisition
- Aug 23, 2021 Creating, Transacting, and Storing Value in the Financial Metaverse of NFTs, DAOs, and DeFi
- Aug 2, 2021 What do SPACs and IPOs say about Coinbase, Robinhood, Lemonade, SoFi, and other fintech darlings?
- Jul 30, 2021 Step CEO CJ MacDonald on building the leading Gen-Z bank, TikTok influencers, and money culture
- Jun 28, 2021 The Fintech tipping point is here -- Visa's $2B Tink acquisition, Dave neobank $4B SPAC, and Revolut's 15MM users in context
- Jun 14, 2021 The links between tech, commerce, and finance behind Klarna's $45B valuation and Pinduoduo's $150B marketcap
- Apr 19, 2021 Grab's $40 billion SPAC in the context of Uber's borked neobank, Apple's iOS, and Ant Financial's superapp
- Mar 22, 2021 Understanding the Fintech user growth behind the $10.4 billion eToro SPAC and coming Chime IPO vs. the melting Megabanks
- Feb 15, 2021 How $12 Billion in Fintech SPAC capital is teaching us about the economics of target unicorns like Payoneer, Apex, SoFi, and MoneyLion
- Feb 12, 2021 How M1 Finance's $3B AUM super-app is outcompeting Wealthfront, Robinhood, and Schwab, with CEO Brian Barnes
- Jan 11, 2021 How the OCC is building Crypto America and saving banks from extinction
- Dec 4, 2020 Anne Boden of Starling Bank on $4B of deposits, 1.8MM customers, and neobank profitablity
- Oct 12, 2020 The Harvard Endowment and alternative assets, Square buys $50MM of Bitcoin, Killer Mike launching a Bank and Akon building a $6B smart city
- Sep 18, 2020 Finance blood in the water ($900B wasted on digital transformation) is why neobank Chime is $15B, and why Uniswap could be next
- Aug 17, 2020 How Monzo, Revolut, and Starling get to break-even, and comparison with WeChat and Facebook
- Aug 14, 2020 Millions of users and millions in losses -- analyzing neobanks Monzo, Starling, and Revolut
- Aug 10, 2020 Google banking shows that tech giants are the storefront for everything, and other distributors will fade away
- Jul 17, 2020 Figure, SoFi and the Disruption of Finance with Mike Cagney
- Jun 19, 2020 How to Build a $3.5B Profitable Digital Bank with Tinkoff
- Jun 12, 2020 Varo's $240M and Marqeta's $150M Rounds, Should Digital Banks Lend? and Fintech Gets Meta
- Jun 5, 2020 Cash App, Venmo, Digital Wallets and Challenger Banks with ARK Invest
- May 29, 2020 Brex Raises Again, Shopify Launches Bank Accounts and M&A Ideas for Goldman
- May 18, 2020 Goldman is trying to build a Fintech powerhouse, and this is how they should do it
- May 5, 2020 Inside The Decision to Shutter Moven’s B2C Business, with Brett King
- Apr 27, 2020 Betterment launches bank accounts into a world that has changed completely
- Apr 6, 2020 Why Fintech Venture Capital firms are not returning your calls and emails
- Feb 24, 2020 Financial Empires fall -- HSBC to fire 35,000; E*TRADE sells to Morgan Stanley for $13B
- Jan 6, 2020 BBVA to sell chocolates on Amazon, while gamer hardware co Razer tries banking in Singapore
- Dec 10, 2019 Neobank Chime valued at $6 billion with 7 million users, Goldman to launch roboadvisor with $5,000 minimum
- Nov 4, 2019 Understanding Uber Money and its threat to the financial industry
- Oct 28, 2019 Square's Robinhood competitor and Robinhood's Square competitor are rented from API providers, delegating billions
- Oct 21, 2019 Double Standards -- Fortnite game praised for black-out, neobank Chime upsets 5 million customers
- Oct 7, 2019 Fintech Price War -- Goldman's $1.3B Marcus burn, Neobank £200MM loss, ETrade's $75MM trading fees
- Jul 15, 2019 Deutsche Bank to fire 18,000 people while Amazon upskills 100,000
- Apr 29, 2019 Wealthfront's $1 Billion of Cash in Two Months
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philosophy
39
- Nov 24, 2021 World Economic Forum CBDC analysis in the era of Populism, Institutionalism, and Hofstede's Cultural DNA
- Aug 30, 2021 OnlyFans bank-forced adult content ban, its failure, and the Metaphysics of Finance
- Jun 18, 2021 A meditation on capitalism, the grey goo, and the Borganisms
- Jun 7, 2021 Purpose of Identity, its connection to finance, and implementations in the Euro digital wallet and DeFi protocols
- May 24, 2021 Bitcoin price falling doesn't mean what Paul Krugman claims
- May 10, 2021 Lessons from Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Galaxy Digital, and the emerging DAOs for building a Fintech empire
- Apr 12, 2021 The "fundamental" economic design driving crypto valuation to $2 trillion
- Mar 8, 2021 Why Square bought Jay Z's music service Tidal for $300MM, and how the NFT-driven transformation of music royalties and ownership can explain this future
- Feb 8, 2021 Non-fungible tokens and crypto art (like Hashmasks) will create multi-billion markets for digital objects with financial features
- Feb 1, 2021 How the Internet/Reddit/GameStop broke our financial market structure, the social contract, and what comes next
- Jan 25, 2021 What 1840s "Free Banking" and the 1910s Cubist movement suggests about DeFi and economic machine evolution
- Jan 4, 2021 What do Bitcoin, Ethereum, GDP, unemployment, and Covid have in common in 2021?
- Dec 21, 2020 Crypto regulatory wargames with FinCen, FCA, and the US House of Reps, impacting Paxos, Compound, BBVA, and Northern Trust
- Nov 13, 2020 The system versus the individual -- a meditation on the American election, Alibaba's dethroning, and Fintech theater
- Oct 26, 2020 The AI cluster running on top of the Internet has data mined you, and has some deep fakes to sell you
- Sep 11, 2020 The nature of Consciousness, artificial intelligence, and how we see Finance Sep 11, 2020 1
- Sep 7, 2020 How signalling explains SoftBank's $4 billion call option trade, SushiSwap's vampire attack, and why we make Art
- Aug 24, 2020 The absurdity of how the Internet is both beautiful and awful, and the memetic infection of Finance
- Aug 3, 2020 The symbolic battle over TikTok, intellectual property, and blockchain-based finance
- Jul 20, 2020 How Robinhood makes $90MM from order flow, and how DeFi is different
- Jul 3, 2020 White Obama made by Artificial Intelligence
- Jun 29, 2020 Wirecard's collapse hurts Fintech & Crypto start-ups, like Lehman and Enron burned the economy
- Jun 8, 2020 What can Fintech learn from Elon Musk and SpaceX getting astronauts to space for 90% cheaper than NASA?
- Apr 13, 2020 Apple and Google help with government contact tracing, setting stage for war over Data
- Mar 30, 2020 Creativity and courage are the vaccine -- from molecular technology, to digital workspaces, to solving for global health data
- Mar 16, 2020 Slowing GDP growth by 1.5% is like another 10 million people getting infected with coronovirus, and other analysis on financial fragility
- Feb 17, 2020 Worldline's $8B acquisition of Ingenico's $3B revenue would barely pay for Robinhood or Revolut's valuations
- Dec 30, 2019 7,000 bank branches shut down and 425,000 jobs lost -- melting Banking into a glass half full
- Dec 16, 2019 Unicorn valuations are bad for your health -- the Prisoner's Dilemma of WeWork and Magic Leap
- Nov 19, 2019 Ok, Boomer -- a meme for the broken political economy
- Oct 14, 2019 The political limits of commerce -- Telegram's $1.7B US offering and NBA's $1.5B China deal
- Sep 30, 2019 You don't get to cheat just because you like to win -- on WeWork, Politics, and Fintech
- Sep 23, 2019 Facebook's Supreme Court is like Compliance in Banks, or Chinese Communist Party entities in joint ventures
- Aug 19, 2019 Robocop vs. Terminator in Fintech; Comparing DeFi originations to Digital Lenders in the early years
- Aug 5, 2019 Losing our Sacred Data - how to make sense of Capital One, Equifax, and Facebook
- Jul 22, 2019 What Finance can learn from the Evolution of Beautiful Artificial Intelligence Art
- Jul 15, 2019 Deutsche Bank to fire 18,000 people while Amazon upskills 100,000
- Jun 24, 2019 Lessons from Uber's JUMP bikes on evolution in capitalism, Facebook's crypto money monopoly
- Jun 17, 2019 The Ethics of $2B Lemonade, $100B Softbank Visions, and $500MM of Binance IEOs
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digital transformation
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- Dec 8, 2021 What Goldman's institutional financial cloud on Amazon means for embedded finance
- Dec 1, 2021 What will Stripe do in crypto?
- Nov 19, 2021 Digitizing banks with better BNPL, Underwriting, and Anti-Fraud Tech, with Amount CEO Adam Hughes
- Nov 5, 2021 Building a $15B+ embedded loan management platform, with LoanPro CEO Rhett Roberts
- Sep 17, 2021 NVIDIA's Kevin Levitt on Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, and its role in financial services
- Aug 27, 2021 Is Fintech or DeFi Bigger? And Who eats Whom? Hosted by The Defiant
- Aug 13, 2021 Treasury Prime CEO Chris Dean on Banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, and the evolution of FinTech API infrastructure
- Jul 30, 2021 Step CEO CJ MacDonald on building the leading Gen-Z bank, TikTok influencers, and money culture
- Jul 8, 2021 Fintech venture investing after a career in the US treasury and Wall St equity research, with Patrick Pinschmidt of MiddleGame Ventures Jul 9 2
- Jun 28, 2021 The Fintech tipping point is here -- Visa's $2B Tink acquisition, Dave neobank $4B SPAC, and Revolut's 15MM users in context
- May 28, 2021 The software stack powering Capital Markets and its coming transformation, with Horacio Barakat of Broadridge
- Mar 22, 2021 Understanding the Fintech user growth behind the $10.4 billion eToro SPAC and coming Chime IPO vs. the melting Megabanks
- Jan 29, 2021 The path from institutional finance (Goldman) to enterprise blockchain (PwC) to the $26B edge of DeFi innovation (Aave) with Ajit Tripathi
- Jan 25, 2021 What 1840s "Free Banking" and the 1910s Cubist movement suggests about DeFi and economic machine evolution
- Jan 22, 2021 Embedded Finance as a $7 trillion market opportunity for banks in the business of suffering, with Simon Torrance
- Dec 4, 2020 Anne Boden of Starling Bank on $4B of deposits, 1.8MM customers, and neobank profitablity
- Nov 23, 2020 Google has come to Banking. What does that mean, and what should we do about it?
- Oct 23, 2020 How IBM spinning-out $18B of managed infrastructure revenue, or Reliance Jio growing to 400MM mobile users, creates a chassis for digital finance
- Oct 16, 2020 Virtual communities and digital worlds are the difference between Finance Incumbents, Fintech, and DeFi
- Sep 18, 2020 Finance blood in the water ($900B wasted on digital transformation) is why neobank Chime is $15B, and why Uniswap could be next
- Aug 10, 2020 Google banking shows that tech giants are the storefront for everything, and other distributors will fade away
- Jul 31, 2020 Growth of brand banking, tragedy of OnDeck vs. Kabbage, and the Indian Fintech war between WhatsApp and WeChat
- Jul 10, 2020 Personal Capital is Acquired for $1 Billion, Lemonade IPOs and PayPal Joins the Crypto Club
- Jun 8, 2020 What can Fintech learn from Elon Musk and SpaceX getting astronauts to space for 90% cheaper than NASA?
- May 18, 2020 Goldman is trying to build a Fintech powerhouse, and this is how they should do it
- May 5, 2020 Inside The Decision to Shutter Moven’s B2C Business, with Brett King
- Feb 24, 2020 Financial Empires fall -- HSBC to fire 35,000; E*TRADE sells to Morgan Stanley for $13B
- Feb 3, 2020 Citi launches free roboadvisor, and how roboadvisors are like Twinkies
- Jan 6, 2020 BBVA to sell chocolates on Amazon, while gamer hardware co Razer tries banking in Singapore
- Dec 30, 2019 7,000 bank branches shut down and 425,000 jobs lost -- melting Banking into a glass half full
- Nov 25, 2019 Implications of Schwab's $26 billion acquisition of TD Ameritrade, and Tesla's black swan truck
- Nov 4, 2019 Understanding Uber Money and its threat to the financial industry
- Oct 7, 2019 Fintech Price War -- Goldman's $1.3B Marcus burn, Neobank £200MM loss, ETrade's $75MM trading fees
- Aug 19, 2019 Robocop vs. Terminator in Fintech; Comparing DeFi originations to Digital Lenders in the early years
- Jul 15, 2019 Deutsche Bank to fire 18,000 people while Amazon upskills 100,000
- Jul 1, 2019 $1B moved for $0.02 fee on Binance, $600M of Tether printed, $200M in DeFi lending
- Jun 10, 2019 JP Morgan's dead Neobank mistook Digital for a Channel, EOS Voice is $150MM in the wrong direction
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digital investing
33
- Dec 17, 2021 Pioneering Crypto ETPs to $3B in assets in 3 years, with 21Shares CEO Hany Rashwan
- Dec 15, 2021 The State of Decentralized network M&A in 2021, with Polygon's $650MM of acquisitions
- Dec 10, 2021 Investing in real estate, crypto, and startups using your retirement account, with Rocket Dollar CEO Henry Yoshida
- Dec 3, 2021 Origins of Metamask's 20 million Web3 users, with co-founder Dan Finlay
- Nov 26, 2021 Powering the FX behind Africa's trillion-dollar growth, with Aza CEO Elizabeth Rossiello
- Oct 8, 2021 CEO of Yield App, Tim Frost, on integrating DeFi Yield products into a regulated Fintech company
- Oct 1, 2021 Robinhood's order flow disrupting equities and crypto market structure, with Paul Rowady of Alphacution
- Aug 27, 2021 Is Fintech or DeFi Bigger? And Who eats Whom? Hosted by The Defiant
- Aug 20, 2021 Altruist CEO Jason Wenk on WealthTech, financial planning, advice, and generally improving financial health
- Aug 2, 2021 What do SPACs and IPOs say about Coinbase, Robinhood, Lemonade, SoFi, and other fintech darlings?
- Jul 23, 2021 eToro CEO Yoni Assia on the purpose of investing, crypto assets, and building a $10B fintech
- Jul 12, 2021 The fundamentals of Circle's $4.5B SPAC, Robinhood's IPO, and the $30B of fintech venture capital
- Jun 11, 2021 From ecommerce to a million+ global financial community, with Maximilian Rofagha of Finimize
- Jun 1, 2021 The $2.2 billion Acorns SPAC and a $50 billion fintech roll-up strategy for public funds
- Apr 26, 2021 What TikTok's GenZ financial influencers mean for RIAs, wealthtech, and financial advice
- Mar 22, 2021 Understanding the Fintech user growth behind the $10.4 billion eToro SPAC and coming Chime IPO vs. the melting Megabanks
- Feb 12, 2021 How M1 Finance's $3B AUM super-app is outcompeting Wealthfront, Robinhood, and Schwab, with CEO Brian Barnes
- Feb 5, 2021 The post-FinTech New American Finance, and Robinhood’s $3.4B support of an 8MM-strong Reddit army that cost Wall Street $7B, with Will Beeson of Bella
- Feb 1, 2021 How the Internet/Reddit/GameStop broke our financial market structure, the social contract, and what comes next
- Nov 23, 2020 Google has come to Banking. What does that mean, and what should we do about it?
- Nov 20, 2020 How roboadvisors, B2C fintechs, and high tech giants are causing deep shifts in wealth management
- Oct 30, 2020 Understanding Robinhood, Derivatives, and Market Makers with Paul Rowady of Alphacution
- Sep 21, 2020 Is Ant Financial the best Fintech in the world? Let's analyze the IPO!
- Jul 20, 2020 How Robinhood makes $90MM from order flow, and how DeFi is different
- Jul 13, 2020 How Coinbase Pre-IPO Economics Could Get a $15 Billion Valuation
- Jul 10, 2020 Personal Capital is Acquired for $1 Billion, Lemonade IPOs and PayPal Joins the Crypto Club
- May 29, 2020 Brex Raises Again, Shopify Launches Bank Accounts and M&A Ideas for Goldman
- May 18, 2020 Goldman is trying to build a Fintech powerhouse, and this is how they should do it
- May 11, 2020 $700B Franklin Templeton buys wealth tech AdvisorEngine, while digital investing DeFi revolution only starting
- Apr 27, 2020 Betterment launches bank accounts into a world that has changed completely
- Dec 10, 2019 Neobank Chime valued at $6 billion with 7 million users, Goldman to launch roboadvisor with $5,000 minimum
- Nov 25, 2019 Implications of Schwab's $26 billion acquisition of TD Ameritrade, and Tesla's black swan truck
- Oct 28, 2019 Square's Robinhood competitor and Robinhood's Square competitor are rented from API providers, delegating billions
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metaverse
30
- Oct 10, 2022 The Roaring Twenties of Populism, Institutionalism, and Technology's Meaning
- Dec 3, 2021 Origins of Metamask's 20 million Web3 users, with co-founder Dan Finlay
- Nov 12, 2021 DAOs 101, with SharkDAO, PartyDAO, and Juicebox contributor Nicholas
- Nov 3, 2021 Why Facebook is domain squatting on the Metaverse
- Oct 20, 2021 Scaling Web3 with the $10B+ Polygon protocol, with COO Sandeep Nailwal
- Oct 6, 2021 User-Generated Finance and Cultural Financial Instruments, via Snoop Dogg, Dapper Labs, and $1.5B Decentralized Social
- Sep 24, 2021 What's next in Web3? Tachyon Accelerator's MD Gabriel Anderson on early stage in NFTs, DeFi, & Crypto
- Sep 6, 2021 Financial Mythmaking with $200MM of Loot NFTs and their growing world
- Sep 3, 2021 Metaverse 101 with Lex Sokolin and Cris Sheridan, Sr. Editor of Financial Sense
- Aug 23, 2021 Creating, Transacting, and Storing Value in the Financial Metaverse of NFTs, DAOs, and DeFi
- Aug 5, 2021 Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum on the 4th Industrial Revolution, the role of Law, Government, and DAOs, and the Creator Economy
- Jul 26, 2021 Getting ahead in Facebook's Metaverse by earning the Harvard of NFTs
- Jun 14, 2021 The links between tech, commerce, and finance behind Klarna's $45B valuation and Pinduoduo's $150B marketcap
- May 7, 2021 Decentralized Identity and the Metaverse, with Michael Sena of The Ceramic Network
- May 3, 2021 The top 5 NFT trends for 2021, and current state of the NFT market
- Jan 8, 2021 Lessons for banking and finance from video game interface design
- Nov 27, 2020 Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures on DeFi and NFT investing and acceleration
- Oct 19, 2020 From Fintech to Augmented Reality Commerce to Artificially Intelligent Agents
- Oct 16, 2020 Virtual communities and digital worlds are the difference between Finance Incumbents, Fintech, and DeFi
- Oct 2, 2020 Fintech in the Metaverse, plus NFTs, Crypto Art, and Epic Games
- Aug 7, 2020 How should Fintech react to Epic raising $2B on Fortnite's 350MM users, NY Times photogrammetric environments, and Apple's AR glasses
- Jul 27, 2020 OpenAI, backed with $1B+ by Elon Musk & MSFT, can now program SQL and write Harry Potter fan-fiction
- Jul 3, 2020 White Obama made by Artificial Intelligence
- May 25, 2020 Apple's augmented reality leak, and what Fintech should do for the coming Multiverse
- May 8, 2020 Artificial Intelligence that writes pop songs and paints portraits
- Apr 24, 2020 The Grand Theory of the Universe
- Dec 10, 2019 Neobank Chime valued at $6 billion with 7 million users, Goldman to launch roboadvisor with $5,000 minimum
- Oct 21, 2019 Double Standards -- Fortnite game praised for black-out, neobank Chime upsets 5 million customers
- Aug 12, 2019 Real Estate Tech brokerage Compass earns its $6.4 billion valuation from smart arbitrage
- Jul 8, 2019 Google and Amazon's mixed reality advertising could become digital lending and payments platforms
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digital lending
27
- Nov 19, 2021 Digitizing banks with better BNPL, Underwriting, and Anti-Fraud Tech, with Amount CEO Adam Hughes
- Nov 5, 2021 Building a $15B+ embedded loan management platform, with LoanPro CEO Rhett Roberts
- Oct 8, 2021 CEO of Yield App, Tim Frost, on integrating DeFi Yield products into a regulated Fintech company
- Sep 20, 2021 Unlocking Demand-side growth with Square's payment network and Goldman's GreenSky acquisition
- Aug 9, 2021 Acquisition arbitrage between public and private fintech revenues, highlighted by Figure and Starling
- Aug 2, 2021 What do SPACs and IPOs say about Coinbase, Robinhood, Lemonade, SoFi, and other fintech darlings?
- Jul 1, 2021 Building the best payments fiat to crypto onramp, with Ivan Soto-Wright of MoonPay
- Jun 14, 2021 The links between tech, commerce, and finance behind Klarna's $45B valuation and Pinduoduo's $150B marketcap
- Jun 7, 2021 Purpose of Identity, its connection to finance, and implementations in the Euro digital wallet and DeFi protocols
- Apr 5, 2021 Getting paid now for future performance with Pipe's $150MM raise and BitClout's $200MM of Bitcoin
- Jan 15, 2021 Who wins and loses in the Plaid/Visa divorce, and the $10 Billion in new Fintech SPACs (Spakkt and Spofi), with Will Beeson
- Dec 7, 2020 Who are the customers of Embedded Finance, and what do they reveal about Stripe, Affirm, DriveWealth, and Green Dot?
- Nov 23, 2020 Google has come to Banking. What does that mean, and what should we do about it?
- Oct 9, 2020 Why Peer-to-Peer models fail against oligopoly, with Lending Club shutting down p2p platform, Seedrs/Crowdcube merging, and Morgan Stanley buying Eaton Vance for $7B
- Sep 28, 2020 DeFi should take the middle road between the extremes of QAnon and J.P. Morgan
- Aug 17, 2020 How Monzo, Revolut, and Starling get to break-even, and comparison with WeChat and Facebook
- Aug 14, 2020 Millions of users and millions in losses -- analyzing neobanks Monzo, Starling, and Revolut
- Jul 31, 2020 Growth of brand banking, tragedy of OnDeck vs. Kabbage, and the Indian Fintech war between WhatsApp and WeChat
- Jul 17, 2020 Figure, SoFi and the Disruption of Finance with Mike Cagney
- Jun 19, 2020 How to Build a $3.5B Profitable Digital Bank with Tinkoff
- May 29, 2020 Brex Raises Again, Shopify Launches Bank Accounts and M&A Ideas for Goldman
- May 18, 2020 Goldman is trying to build a Fintech powerhouse, and this is how they should do it
- May 15, 2020 Technology, Empathy and Finance in a Time of Crisis, with Ohad Samet of TrueAccord
- Dec 10, 2019 Neobank Chime valued at $6 billion with 7 million users, Goldman to launch roboadvisor with $5,000 minimum
- Aug 19, 2019 Robocop vs. Terminator in Fintech; Comparing DeFi originations to Digital Lenders in the early years
- Jul 8, 2019 Google and Amazon's mixed reality advertising could become digital lending and payments platforms
- May 20, 2019 Goldman pays $750M for wealth platform United Capital, Jefferies gives blockchain-lender Figure $1B
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NFTs and digital objects
26
- Nov 12, 2021 DAOs 101, with SharkDAO, PartyDAO, and Juicebox contributor Nicholas
- Nov 3, 2021 Why Facebook is domain squatting on the Metaverse
- Oct 29, 2021 Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov on building the global decentralized oracle network powering DeFi and Web3
- Oct 6, 2021 User-Generated Finance and Cultural Financial Instruments, via Snoop Dogg, Dapper Labs, and $1.5B Decentralized Social
- Sep 24, 2021 What's next in Web3? Tachyon Accelerator's MD Gabriel Anderson on early stage in NFTs, DeFi, & Crypto
- Sep 10, 2021 Art Blocks CEO Erick Calderon on Generative Art, Blockchains, and the NFT movement
- Sep 6, 2021 Financial Mythmaking with $200MM of Loot NFTs and their growing world
- Sep 3, 2021 Metaverse 101 with Lex Sokolin and Cris Sheridan, Sr. Editor of Financial Sense
- Aug 23, 2021 Creating, Transacting, and Storing Value in the Financial Metaverse of NFTs, DAOs, and DeFi
- Jul 26, 2021 Getting ahead in Facebook's Metaverse by earning the Harvard of NFTs
- Jul 5, 2021 Luxury and Fashion market structure applied to finance, NFTs, and DAO
- Jun 25, 2021 Inspiring creativity, collaboration, and visual conversation by harnessing decentralized tech, with Beatriz Helena Ramos of DADA.art
- May 7, 2021 Decentralized Identity and the Metaverse, with Michael Sena of The Ceramic Network
- May 3, 2021 The top 5 NFT trends for 2021, and current state of the NFT market
- Mar 29, 2021 Are the NFT and DeFi markets recreating traditional human hierarchies through new social capital?
- Mar 8, 2021 Why Square bought Jay Z's music service Tidal for $300MM, and how the NFT-driven transformation of music royalties and ownership can explain this future
- Mar 5, 2021 How a moment on the NYC 6 train turned into using NFTs in the $74T supply chain industry before NFTs were cool, with Tyler Mulvihill of EulerBeats
- Feb 19, 2021 The $250M of non-fungible tokens and the $200MM crypto neo-cyberpunk art market for digital objects (e.g., Beeple, NBA Top Shots), with emerging financial features
- Feb 8, 2021 Non-fungible tokens and crypto art (like Hashmasks) will create multi-billion markets for digital objects with financial features
- Jan 8, 2021 Lessons for banking and finance from video game interface design
- Dec 18, 2020 Connecting the $2T in Art owned by UHNW investors, with the rise of crypto art and Beeple's $3.5MM NFT digital art auction
- Dec 11, 2020 5 Reactions to Messari's 134 page crypto report
- Nov 27, 2020 Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures on DeFi and NFT investing and acceleration
- Oct 16, 2020 Virtual communities and digital worlds are the difference between Finance Incumbents, Fintech, and DeFi
- Oct 2, 2020 Fintech in the Metaverse, plus NFTs, Crypto Art, and Epic Games
- Jul 22, 2019 What Finance can learn from the Evolution of Beautiful Artificial Intelligence Art
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exchanges / cap mkts
25
- Dec 8, 2021 What Goldman's institutional financial cloud on Amazon means for embedded finance
- Nov 17, 2021 The role of Alameda and Cumberland as USDT market makers
- Oct 27, 2021 DeFi 2.0 Primer (part 2): Tokemak aims to aggregate and improve market making, like a decentralized Citadel Oct 27 3
- Oct 21, 2021 DeFi 2.0 Primer (part 1): Rise of Protocol Owned Liquidity and Olympus DAO mechanics
- Oct 13, 2021 The Law of Unintended Consequences via Wells Fargo, Divergence Ventures, DeFi designs, and the Federal Reserve
- Oct 6, 2021 User-Generated Finance and Cultural Financial Instruments, via Snoop Dogg, Dapper Labs, and $1.5B Decentralized Social
- Oct 1, 2021 Robinhood's order flow disrupting equities and crypto market structure, with Paul Rowady of Alphacution
- Sep 13, 2021 The principle behind Mastercard's CipherTrace acquisition, L1 growth, and IRS getting your bank data
- Sep 6, 2021 Financial Mythmaking with $200MM of Loot NFTs and their growing world
- Aug 20, 2021 Altruist CEO Jason Wenk on WealthTech, financial planning, advice, and generally improving financial health
- Jul 8, 2021 Fintech venture investing after a career in the US treasury and Wall St equity research, with Patrick Pinschmidt of MiddleGame Ventures Jul 9 2
- May 28, 2021 The software stack powering Capital Markets and its coming transformation, with Horacio Barakat of Broadridge
- May 24, 2021 Bitcoin price falling doesn't mean what Paul Krugman claims
- May 17, 2021 Marqeta's $300MM of revenue & Ethereum's $20B in ann. transaction fees highlight opportunity and industry structure
- Feb 25, 2021 Why Coinbase's $100B+ valuation makes sense, and how to compare it to $60B Ethereum DeFi, and to crypto-king Binance
- Feb 5, 2021 The post-FinTech New American Finance, and Robinhood’s $3.4B support of an 8MM-strong Reddit army that cost Wall Street $7B, with Will Beeson of Bella
- Jan 29, 2021 The path from institutional finance (Goldman) to enterprise blockchain (PwC) to the $26B edge of DeFi innovation (Aave) with Ajit Tripathi
- Oct 30, 2020 Understanding Robinhood, Derivatives, and Market Makers with Paul Rowady of Alphacution
- Oct 26, 2020 The AI cluster running on top of the Internet has data mined you, and has some deep fakes to sell you
- Sep 28, 2020 DeFi should take the middle road between the extremes of QAnon and J.P. Morgan
- Aug 28, 2020 Maturation of institutional crypto custody and prime brokerage with BitGo's Mike Belshe
- Mar 16, 2020 Slowing GDP growth by 1.5% is like another 10 million people getting infected with coronovirus, and other analysis on financial fragility
- Mar 2, 2020 How Coronovirus impacts Fintech, Financial Markets, and the global Economy
- Dec 2, 2019 Shifting from Institutions to Retail Clients -- NYSE direct listings and Central Bank digital currencies
- Nov 11, 2019 Blockchain progress through the lens of Binance's $180MM profit and Greensill's $1.5B SoftBank raise
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big tech
24
- Nov 3, 2021 Why Facebook is domain squatting on the Metaverse
- Sep 20, 2021 Unlocking Demand-side growth with Square's payment network and Goldman's GreenSky acquisition
- Sep 17, 2021 NVIDIA's Kevin Levitt on Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, and its role in financial services
- Aug 9, 2021 Acquisition arbitrage between public and private fintech revenues, highlighted by Figure and Starling
- Jul 26, 2021 Getting ahead in Facebook's Metaverse by earning the Harvard of NFTs
- Dec 7, 2020 Who are the customers of Embedded Finance, and what do they reveal about Stripe, Affirm, DriveWealth, and Green Dot?
- Nov 23, 2020 Google has come to Banking. What does that mean, and what should we do about it?
- Oct 23, 2020 How IBM spinning-out $18B of managed infrastructure revenue, or Reliance Jio growing to 400MM mobile users, creates a chassis for digital finance
- Sep 28, 2020 DeFi should take the middle road between the extremes of QAnon and J.P. Morgan
- Sep 21, 2020 Is Ant Financial the best Fintech in the world? Let's analyze the IPO!
- Sep 14, 2020 Learnings from Microsoft & Visa integrating personal financial data into Excel, and the open ecosystems of Google Sheets and MetaMask
- Sep 1, 2020 J.P.Morgan's Quorum becomes part of ConsenSys, putting Ethereum at heart of commercial and financial infrastructure
- Aug 10, 2020 Google banking shows that tech giants are the storefront for everything, and other distributors will fade away
- Jul 31, 2020 Growth of brand banking, tragedy of OnDeck vs. Kabbage, and the Indian Fintech war between WhatsApp and WeChat
- Jul 27, 2020 OpenAI, backed with $1B+ by Elon Musk & MSFT, can now program SQL and write Harry Potter fan-fiction
- Jun 26, 2020 WhatsApp Payments Halted in Brazil, Stripe competitor Checkout.com is Worth $5.5B, Upgrade raises $40MM
- Nov 25, 2019 Implications of Schwab's $26 billion acquisition of TD Ameritrade, and Tesla's black swan truck
- Nov 4, 2019 Understanding Uber Money and its threat to the financial industry
- Sep 23, 2019 Facebook's Supreme Court is like Compliance in Banks, or Chinese Communist Party entities in joint ventures
- Aug 27, 2019 Fighting Chinese Artificial Intelligence with lasers and American Crypto with European Central Banks
- Jul 8, 2019 Google and Amazon's mixed reality advertising could become digital lending and payments platforms
- Jun 24, 2019 Lessons from Uber's JUMP bikes on evolution in capitalism, Facebook's crypto money monopoly
- May 13, 2019 What Uber's IPO means for Fintech and Banks
- May 6, 2019 Facebook and Bitfinex both want $1 Billion for Crypto Stablecoins
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central bank / CBDC
24
- Dec 1, 2021 What will Stripe do in crypto?
- Nov 24, 2021 World Economic Forum CBDC analysis in the era of Populism, Institutionalism, and Hofstede's Cultural DNA
- Nov 17, 2021 The role of Alameda and Cumberland as USDT market makers
- Nov 3, 2021 Why Facebook is domain squatting on the Metaverse
- Oct 22, 2021 How China is winning the race in Fintech, Payments, and CBDCs, with Fintech expert Richard Turrin
- Aug 5, 2021 Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum on the 4th Industrial Revolution, the role of Law, Government, and DAOs, and the Creator Economy
- Jun 7, 2021 Purpose of Identity, its connection to finance, and implementations in the Euro digital wallet and DeFi protocols
- Apr 9, 2021 Building blockchain money and sustainable economies, with former Supervisory Board Chairman of the Icelandic Central Bank and Co-founder of Monerium, Jon Egilsson
- Mar 15, 2021 The battle for Chinese Fintech as China highlights blockchain in Five Year Plan, ramps up Ant and Tencent regulation, phases in e-CNY
- Jan 25, 2021 What 1840s "Free Banking" and the 1910s Cubist movement suggests about DeFi and economic machine evolution
- Jan 11, 2021 How the OCC is building Crypto America and saving banks from extinction
- Dec 21, 2020 Crypto regulatory wargames with FinCen, FCA, and the US House of Reps, impacting Paxos, Compound, BBVA, and Northern Trust
- Nov 9, 2020 Will the Blockchain Economy run on Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Central Bank Digital Currency?
- Oct 5, 2020 Is Finance asking *interesting* questions? Exploring startups, industries, and the nature of work.
- Sep 28, 2020 DeFi should take the middle road between the extremes of QAnon and J.P. Morgan
- Aug 21, 2020 Decentralized Finance 101 with Kerman Kohli
- Jun 26, 2020 WhatsApp Payments Halted in Brazil, Stripe competitor Checkout.com is Worth $5.5B, Upgrade raises $40MM
- May 4, 2020 What Ray Dalio's new research says about American Empire, the US dollar, Gold, and Bitcoin
- May 1, 2020 Libra, Stablecoins, CBDCs and the Need for Digital Money
- Apr 20, 2020 War over Money reaches new heights, as Libra opts into regulation, China launches national blockchain, and Financial Stability Board raises alarm
- Mar 9, 2020 Why Facebook's Libra needs to change course, Ethereum's Fintech promise, and a look at JP Morgan's blockchain analysis
- Jan 27, 2020 How are Central Bank Digital Currencies like Lithium-ion Batteries, and how do you build a CBDC today?
- Dec 23, 2019 Top 5 Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020 and beyond
- Dec 2, 2019 Shifting from Institutions to Retail Clients -- NYSE direct listings and Central Bank digital currencies
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civilization and politics
24
- Oct 10, 2022 The Roaring Twenties of Populism, Institutionalism, and Technology's Meaning
- Nov 24, 2021 World Economic Forum CBDC analysis in the era of Populism, Institutionalism, and Hofstede's Cultural DNA
- Sep 13, 2021 The principle behind Mastercard's CipherTrace acquisition, L1 growth, and IRS getting your bank data
- Aug 30, 2021 OnlyFans bank-forced adult content ban, its failure, and the Metaphysics of Finance
- Aug 5, 2021 Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum on the 4th Industrial Revolution, the role of Law, Government, and DAOs, and the Creator Economy
- Jun 25, 2021 Inspiring creativity, collaboration, and visual conversation by harnessing decentralized tech, with Beatriz Helena Ramos of DADA.art
- Jun 18, 2021 A meditation on capitalism, the grey goo, and the Borganisms
- Mar 15, 2021 The battle for Chinese Fintech as China highlights blockchain in Five Year Plan, ramps up Ant and Tencent regulation, phases in e-CNY
- Mar 12, 2021 Joe Lubin, ConsenSys CEO and Ethereum co-founder discusses AI, macroeconomics, philosophy, and the future of the $200 billion Ethereum network
- Feb 26, 2021 $60B digital capital markets, crypto law and regulation, and Ethereum Layer 2 scaling, with Pat Berarducci
- Jan 4, 2021 What do Bitcoin, Ethereum, GDP, unemployment, and Covid have in common in 2021?
- Nov 13, 2020 The system versus the individual -- a meditation on the American election, Alibaba's dethroning, and Fintech theater
- Oct 26, 2020 The AI cluster running on top of the Internet has data mined you, and has some deep fakes to sell you
- Jul 27, 2020 OpenAI, backed with $1B+ by Elon Musk & MSFT, can now program SQL and write Harry Potter fan-fiction
- Jul 3, 2020 White Obama made by Artificial Intelligence
- Jun 8, 2020 What can Fintech learn from Elon Musk and SpaceX getting astronauts to space for 90% cheaper than NASA?
- Jun 1, 2020 Black Lives Matter -- structural inequity is the norm, not the exception
- May 4, 2020 What Ray Dalio's new research says about American Empire, the US dollar, Gold, and Bitcoin
- Nov 19, 2019 Ok, Boomer -- a meme for the broken political economy
- Oct 14, 2019 The political limits of commerce -- Telegram's $1.7B US offering and NBA's $1.5B China deal
- Sep 23, 2019 Facebook's Supreme Court is like Compliance in Banks, or Chinese Communist Party entities in joint ventures
- Aug 27, 2019 Fighting Chinese Artificial Intelligence with lasers and American Crypto with European Central Banks
- Jul 19, 2019 Big Fintech: LSE's $27B for Refinitiv, Softbank's second $108B vision, Ping An's $160B Revenue
- Jun 3, 2019 $20 Billion TSYS acquisition in the shadow of Alibaba's $500B SME aggregation
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social & community
24
- Nov 24, 2021 World Economic Forum CBDC analysis in the era of Populism, Institutionalism, and Hofstede's Cultural DNA
- Nov 12, 2021 DAOs 101, with SharkDAO, PartyDAO, and Juicebox contributor Nicholas
- Oct 6, 2021 User-Generated Finance and Cultural Financial Instruments, via Snoop Dogg, Dapper Labs, and $1.5B Decentralized Social
- Sep 20, 2021 Unlocking Demand-side growth with Square's payment network and Goldman's GreenSky acquisition
- Sep 6, 2021 Financial Mythmaking with $200MM of Loot NFTs and their growing world
- Sep 3, 2021 Metaverse 101 with Lex Sokolin and Cris Sheridan, Sr. Editor of Financial Sense
- Aug 23, 2021 Creating, Transacting, and Storing Value in the Financial Metaverse of NFTs, DAOs, and DeFi
- Jul 30, 2021 Step CEO CJ MacDonald on building the leading Gen-Z bank, TikTok influencers, and money culture
- Jul 26, 2021 Getting ahead in Facebook's Metaverse by earning the Harvard of NFTs
- Jul 23, 2021 eToro CEO Yoni Assia on the purpose of investing, crypto assets, and building a $10B fintech
- Jul 19, 2021 The difference between Gen Z and Millennial online culture, resulting in DAOs, decentralization, and creative financial communities
- Jul 5, 2021 Luxury and Fashion market structure applied to finance, NFTs, and DAO
- Jun 14, 2021 The links between tech, commerce, and finance behind Klarna's $45B valuation and Pinduoduo's $150B marketcap
- Jun 11, 2021 From ecommerce to a million+ global financial community, with Maximilian Rofagha of Finimize
- Apr 26, 2021 What TikTok's GenZ financial influencers mean for RIAs, wealthtech, and financial advice
- Apr 16, 2021 Building global paytech companies and communities with Anil Aggarwal of TxVia, Money2020, and Fintech Meetup
- Apr 5, 2021 Getting paid now for future performance with Pipe's $150MM raise and BitClout's $200MM of Bitcoin
- Mar 29, 2021 Are the NFT and DeFi markets recreating traditional human hierarchies through new social capital?
- Mar 19, 2021 Camila Russo of The Defiant and author of The Infinite Machine discusses crypto journalism, writing about Ethereum's inception, $69M NFTs, and building a DeFi community
- Mar 8, 2021 Why Square bought Jay Z's music service Tidal for $300MM, and how the NFT-driven transformation of music royalties and ownership can explain this future
- Feb 1, 2021 How the Internet/Reddit/GameStop broke our financial market structure, the social contract, and what comes next
- Nov 19, 2019 Ok, Boomer -- a meme for the broken political economy
- Oct 21, 2019 Double Standards -- Fortnite game praised for black-out, neobank Chime upsets 5 million customers
- Sep 23, 2019 Facebook's Supreme Court is like Compliance in Banks, or Chinese Communist Party entities in joint ventures
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regulation & compliance
23
- Nov 24, 2021 World Economic Forum CBDC analysis in the era of Populism, Institutionalism, and Hofstede's Cultural DNA
- Sep 13, 2021 The principle behind Mastercard's CipherTrace acquisition, L1 growth, and IRS getting your bank data
- Sep 6, 2021 Financial Mythmaking with $200MM of Loot NFTs and their growing world
- Aug 30, 2021 OnlyFans bank-forced adult content ban, its failure, and the Metaphysics of Finance
- Aug 5, 2021 Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum on the 4th Industrial Revolution, the role of Law, Government, and DAOs, and the Creator Economy
- Jul 8, 2021 Fintech venture investing after a career in the US treasury and Wall St equity research, with Patrick Pinschmidt of MiddleGame Ventures Jul 9 2
- Jul 1, 2021 Building the best payments fiat to crypto onramp, with Ivan Soto-Wright of MoonPay
- Apr 9, 2021 Building blockchain money and sustainable economies, with former Supervisory Board Chairman of the Icelandic Central Bank and Co-founder of Monerium, Jon Egilsson
- Mar 29, 2021 Are the NFT and DeFi markets recreating traditional human hierarchies through new social capital?
- Feb 26, 2021 $60B digital capital markets, crypto law and regulation, and Ethereum Layer 2 scaling, with Pat Berarducci
- Jan 11, 2021 How the OCC is building Crypto America and saving banks from extinction
- Dec 21, 2020 Crypto regulatory wargames with FinCen, FCA, and the US House of Reps, impacting Paxos, Compound, BBVA, and Northern Trust
- Nov 27, 2020 Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures on DeFi and NFT investing and acceleration
- Oct 23, 2020 How IBM spinning-out $18B of managed infrastructure revenue, or Reliance Jio growing to 400MM mobile users, creates a chassis for digital finance
- Oct 5, 2020 Is Finance asking *interesting* questions? Exploring startups, industries, and the nature of work.
- Aug 28, 2020 Maturation of institutional crypto custody and prime brokerage with BitGo's Mike Belshe
- Jul 6, 2020 The Soviet Pyramid Scheme eating 10% of Ethereum and 50% of Paxos Stablecoin
- Apr 20, 2020 War over Money reaches new heights, as Libra opts into regulation, China launches national blockchain, and Financial Stability Board raises alarm
- Mar 9, 2020 Why Facebook's Libra needs to change course, Ethereum's Fintech promise, and a look at JP Morgan's blockchain analysis
- Jan 6, 2020 BBVA to sell chocolates on Amazon, while gamer hardware co Razer tries banking in Singapore
- Nov 11, 2019 Blockchain progress through the lens of Binance's $180MM profit and Greensill's $1.5B SoftBank raise
- Jun 10, 2019 JP Morgan's dead Neobank mistook Digital for a Channel, EOS Voice is $150MM in the wrong direction
- May 27, 2019 How the SEC is wrong about the Internet and the Bitcoin ETF
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DAOs
22
- Oct 10, 2022 The Roaring Twenties of Populism, Institutionalism, and Technology's Meaning
- Dec 15, 2021 The State of Decentralized network M&A in 2021, with Polygon's $650MM of acquisitions
- Dec 3, 2021 Origins of Metamask's 20 million Web3 users, with co-founder Dan Finlay
- Nov 12, 2021 DAOs 101, with SharkDAO, PartyDAO, and Juicebox contributor Nicholas
- Oct 29, 2021 Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov on building the global decentralized oracle network powering DeFi and Web3
- Oct 27, 2021 DeFi 2.0 Primer (part 2): Tokemak aims to aggregate and improve market making, like a decentralized Citadel Oct 27 3
- Oct 21, 2021 DeFi 2.0 Primer (part 1): Rise of Protocol Owned Liquidity and Olympus DAO mechanics
- Oct 20, 2021 Scaling Web3 with the $10B+ Polygon protocol, with COO Sandeep Nailwal
- Sep 24, 2021 What's next in Web3? Tachyon Accelerator's MD Gabriel Anderson on early stage in NFTs, DeFi, & Crypto
- Sep 3, 2021 Metaverse 101 with Lex Sokolin and Cris Sheridan, Sr. Editor of Financial Sense
- Aug 23, 2021 Creating, Transacting, and Storing Value in the Financial Metaverse of NFTs, DAOs, and DeFi
- Aug 5, 2021 Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum on the 4th Industrial Revolution, the role of Law, Government, and DAOs, and the Creator Economy
- Jul 19, 2021 The difference between Gen Z and Millennial online culture, resulting in DAOs, decentralization, and creative financial communities
- Jul 5, 2021 Luxury and Fashion market structure applied to finance, NFTs, and DAO
- Jun 25, 2021 Inspiring creativity, collaboration, and visual conversation by harnessing decentralized tech, with Beatriz Helena Ramos of DADA.art
- May 21, 2021 Rob Leshner of Compound on creating a multi-billion DeFi lending protocol, and innovation under constraint
- May 10, 2021 Lessons from Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Galaxy Digital, and the emerging DAOs for building a Fintech empire
- May 3, 2021 The top 5 NFT trends for 2021, and current state of the NFT market
- Apr 23, 2021 Building the foundational money DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) in DeFi, with Rune Christensen of Maker Foundation
- Jun 22, 2020 Everyone should trade the billions in DeFi Structured Products! Or do digital asset derivatives need custodians and regulators?
- Sep 30, 2019 You don't get to cheat just because you like to win -- on WeWork, Politics, and Fintech
- Jul 22, 2019 What Finance can learn from the Evolution of Beautiful Artificial Intelligence Art
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embedded finance
22
- Dec 8, 2021 What Goldman's institutional financial cloud on Amazon means for embedded finance
- Nov 19, 2021 Digitizing banks with better BNPL, Underwriting, and Anti-Fraud Tech, with Amount CEO Adam Hughes
- Nov 10, 2021 Plaid's payments ecosystem & Affirm's decoupled debit card reveal embedded finance Trojan Horse
- Sep 29, 2021 Will Paypal's digital wallet beat Google Pay and Square Cash App on shopping & banking?
- Aug 27, 2021 Is Fintech or DeFi Bigger? And Who eats Whom? Hosted by The Defiant
- Aug 13, 2021 Treasury Prime CEO Chris Dean on Banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, and the evolution of FinTech API infrastructure
- Jun 28, 2021 The Fintech tipping point is here -- Visa's $2B Tink acquisition, Dave neobank $4B SPAC, and Revolut's 15MM users in context
- Apr 16, 2021 Building global paytech companies and communities with Anil Aggarwal of TxVia, Money2020, and Fintech Meetup
- Jan 22, 2021 Embedded Finance as a $7 trillion market opportunity for banks in the business of suffering, with Simon Torrance
- Jan 18, 2021 Explaining ~100x revenue multiples for Affirm, Checkout, Rapyd, and other fintech companies using systems theory
- Jan 15, 2021 Who wins and loses in the Plaid/Visa divorce, and the $10 Billion in new Fintech SPACs (Spakkt and Spofi), with Will Beeson
- Dec 7, 2020 Who are the customers of Embedded Finance, and what do they reveal about Stripe, Affirm, DriveWealth, and Green Dot?
- Aug 24, 2020 The absurdity of how the Internet is both beautiful and awful, and the memetic infection of Finance
- Jun 29, 2020 Wirecard's collapse hurts Fintech & Crypto start-ups, like Lehman and Enron burned the economy
- Jun 12, 2020 Varo's $240M and Marqeta's $150M Rounds, Should Digital Banks Lend? and Fintech Gets Meta
- Apr 13, 2020 Apple and Google help with government contact tracing, setting stage for war over Data
- Jan 20, 2020 Is Plaid cheap at $5.3 billion for $500 billion Visa?
- Jan 6, 2020 BBVA to sell chocolates on Amazon, while gamer hardware co Razer tries banking in Singapore
- Oct 28, 2019 Square's Robinhood competitor and Robinhood's Square competitor are rented from API providers, delegating billions
- Sep 19, 2019 Insurtech Heat -- Prudential pays $2B for 3yr old start-up and Tesla insures own smart cars
- Jun 3, 2019 $20 Billion TSYS acquisition in the shadow of Alibaba's $500B SME aggregation
- Apr 29, 2019 Wealthfront's $1 Billion of Cash in Two Months
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macroeconomics
22
- Nov 24, 2021 World Economic Forum CBDC analysis in the era of Populism, Institutionalism, and Hofstede's Cultural DNA
- Aug 16, 2021 Global and Crypto Macroeconomics in August 2021, from GDP to BTC to Web3
- Aug 5, 2021 Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum on the 4th Industrial Revolution, the role of Law, Government, and DAOs, and the Creator Economy
- Jun 21, 2021 What the market misses about Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2021
- May 24, 2021 Bitcoin price falling doesn't mean what Paul Krugman claims
- Apr 23, 2021 Building the foundational money DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) in DeFi, with Rune Christensen of Maker Foundation
- Apr 9, 2021 Building blockchain money and sustainable economies, with former Supervisory Board Chairman of the Icelandic Central Bank and Co-founder of Monerium, Jon Egilsson
- Mar 22, 2021 Understanding the Fintech user growth behind the $10.4 billion eToro SPAC and coming Chime IPO vs. the melting Megabanks
- Mar 12, 2021 Joe Lubin, ConsenSys CEO and Ethereum co-founder discusses AI, macroeconomics, philosophy, and the future of the $200 billion Ethereum network
- Jan 4, 2021 What do Bitcoin, Ethereum, GDP, unemployment, and Covid have in common in 2021?
- Nov 9, 2020 Will the Blockchain Economy run on Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Central Bank Digital Currency?
- Aug 3, 2020 The symbolic battle over TikTok, intellectual property, and blockchain-based finance
- Jun 15, 2020 Amazon/Goldman partnership, TikTok banking license, and Ethereum fintech through the lens of Aggregation Theory & Super Apps
- May 4, 2020 What Ray Dalio's new research says about American Empire, the US dollar, Gold, and Bitcoin
- Apr 27, 2020 Betterment launches bank accounts into a world that has changed completely
- Apr 20, 2020 War over Money reaches new heights, as Libra opts into regulation, China launches national blockchain, and Financial Stability Board raises alarm
- Apr 13, 2020 Apple and Google help with government contact tracing, setting stage for war over Data
- Mar 23, 2020 Why $2 trillion is barely enough for the coming unemployment spike, expected 20%+ GDP slow-down, and small business crunch
- Mar 16, 2020 Slowing GDP growth by 1.5% is like another 10 million people getting infected with coronovirus, and other analysis on financial fragility
- Mar 2, 2020 How Coronovirus impacts Fintech, Financial Markets, and the global Economy
- Nov 19, 2019 Ok, Boomer -- a meme for the broken political economy
- Sep 23, 2019 Facebook's Supreme Court is like Compliance in Banks, or Chinese Communist Party entities in joint ventures
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roboadvisor
22
- Dec 10, 2021 Investing in real estate, crypto, and startups using your retirement account, with Rocket Dollar CEO Henry Yoshida
- Aug 20, 2021 Altruist CEO Jason Wenk on WealthTech, financial planning, advice, and generally improving financial health
- Jul 23, 2021 eToro CEO Yoni Assia on the purpose of investing, crypto assets, and building a $10B fintech
- Jun 1, 2021 The $2.2 billion Acorns SPAC and a $50 billion fintech roll-up strategy for public funds
- Apr 26, 2021 What TikTok's GenZ financial influencers mean for RIAs, wealthtech, and financial advice
- Feb 12, 2021 How M1 Finance's $3B AUM super-app is outcompeting Wealthfront, Robinhood, and Schwab, with CEO Brian Barnes
- Nov 23, 2020 Google has come to Banking. What does that mean, and what should we do about it?
- Nov 20, 2020 How roboadvisors, B2C fintechs, and high tech giants are causing deep shifts in wealth management
- Oct 5, 2020 Is Finance asking *interesting* questions? Exploring startups, industries, and the nature of work.
- Jul 20, 2020 How Robinhood makes $90MM from order flow, and how DeFi is different
- Jul 17, 2020 Figure, SoFi and the Disruption of Finance with Mike Cagney
- Jul 10, 2020 Personal Capital is Acquired for $1 Billion, Lemonade IPOs and PayPal Joins the Crypto Club
- May 29, 2020 Brex Raises Again, Shopify Launches Bank Accounts and M&A Ideas for Goldman
- May 18, 2020 Goldman is trying to build a Fintech powerhouse, and this is how they should do it
- May 11, 2020 $700B Franklin Templeton buys wealth tech AdvisorEngine, while digital investing DeFi revolution only starting
- Apr 27, 2020 Betterment launches bank accounts into a world that has changed completely
- Apr 6, 2020 Why Fintech Venture Capital firms are not returning your calls and emails
- Feb 3, 2020 Citi launches free roboadvisor, and how roboadvisors are like Twinkies
- Dec 10, 2019 Neobank Chime valued at $6 billion with 7 million users, Goldman to launch roboadvisor with $5,000 minimum
- Nov 25, 2019 Implications of Schwab's $26 billion acquisition of TD Ameritrade, and Tesla's black swan truck
- Oct 7, 2019 Fintech Price War -- Goldman's $1.3B Marcus burn, Neobank £200MM loss, ETrade's $75MM trading fees
- Apr 29, 2019 Wealthfront's $1 Billion of Cash in Two Months
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artificial intelligence
21
- Sep 17, 2021 NVIDIA's Kevin Levitt on Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, and its role in financial services
- Jul 16, 2021 Hallucinating Art and Finance with CLIP, VQGAN, and Big Sleep
- Jul 1, 2021 Building the best payments fiat to crypto onramp, with Ivan Soto-Wright of MoonPay
- Jun 18, 2021 A meditation on capitalism, the grey goo, and the Borganisms
- Nov 27, 2020 Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures on DeFi and NFT investing and acceleration
- Oct 26, 2020 The AI cluster running on top of the Internet has data mined you, and has some deep fakes to sell you
- Oct 23, 2020 How IBM spinning-out $18B of managed infrastructure revenue, or Reliance Jio growing to 400MM mobile users, creates a chassis for digital finance
- Oct 19, 2020 From Fintech to Augmented Reality Commerce to Artificially Intelligent Agents
- Oct 5, 2020 Is Finance asking *interesting* questions? Exploring startups, industries, and the nature of work.
- Sep 11, 2020 The nature of Consciousness, artificial intelligence, and how we see Finance Sep 11, 2020 1
- Aug 7, 2020 How should Fintech react to Epic raising $2B on Fortnite's 350MM users, NY Times photogrammetric environments, and Apple's AR glasses
- Jul 27, 2020 OpenAI, backed with $1B+ by Elon Musk & MSFT, can now program SQL and write Harry Potter fan-fiction
- Jul 3, 2020 White Obama made by Artificial Intelligence
- May 15, 2020 Technology, Empathy and Finance in a Time of Crisis, with Ohad Samet of TrueAccord
- May 8, 2020 Artificial Intelligence that writes pop songs and paints portraits
- Apr 24, 2020 The Grand Theory of the Universe
- Jan 13, 2020 Have Facebook Messenger Chatbots failed for Finance?
- Aug 27, 2019 Fighting Chinese Artificial Intelligence with lasers and American Crypto with European Central Banks
- Jul 22, 2019 What Finance can learn from the Evolution of Beautiful Artificial Intelligence Art
- Jul 15, 2019 Deutsche Bank to fire 18,000 people while Amazon upskills 100,000
- May 27, 2019 How the SEC is wrong about the Internet and the Bitcoin ETF
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enterprise blockchain
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- Dec 8, 2021 What Goldman's institutional financial cloud on Amazon means for embedded finance
- Nov 24, 2021 World Economic Forum CBDC analysis in the era of Populism, Institutionalism, and Hofstede's Cultural DNA
- Oct 20, 2021 Scaling Web3 with the $10B+ Polygon protocol, with COO Sandeep Nailwal
- May 28, 2021 The software stack powering Capital Markets and its coming transformation, with Horacio Barakat of Broadridge
- Mar 15, 2021 The battle for Chinese Fintech as China highlights blockchain in Five Year Plan, ramps up Ant and Tencent regulation, phases in e-CNY
- Feb 26, 2021 $60B digital capital markets, crypto law and regulation, and Ethereum Layer 2 scaling, with Pat Berarducci
- Jan 29, 2021 The path from institutional finance (Goldman) to enterprise blockchain (PwC) to the $26B edge of DeFi innovation (Aave) with Ajit Tripathi
- Nov 27, 2020 Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures on DeFi and NFT investing and acceleration
- Oct 23, 2020 How IBM spinning-out $18B of managed infrastructure revenue, or Reliance Jio growing to 400MM mobile users, creates a chassis for digital finance
- Sep 28, 2020 DeFi should take the middle road between the extremes of QAnon and J.P. Morgan
- Sep 1, 2020 J.P.Morgan's Quorum becomes part of ConsenSys, putting Ethereum at heart of commercial and financial infrastructure
- Jul 17, 2020 Figure, SoFi and the Disruption of Finance with Mike Cagney
- Apr 24, 2020 The Grand Theory of the Universe
- Mar 9, 2020 Why Facebook's Libra needs to change course, Ethereum's Fintech promise, and a look at JP Morgan's blockchain analysis
- Nov 11, 2019 Blockchain progress through the lens of Binance's $180MM profit and Greensill's $1.5B SoftBank raise
- Sep 16, 2019 Fintech has democratized access to existing financial products, but not changed how they are manufactured
- Sep 2, 2019 Will Open Source business models rule the world, as Enterprise Ethereum Pantheon joins Hyperledger
- Jul 1, 2019 $1B moved for $0.02 fee on Binance, $600M of Tether printed, $200M in DeFi lending
- May 20, 2019 Goldman pays $750M for wealth platform United Capital, Jefferies gives blockchain-lender Figure $1B
- May 6, 2019 Facebook and Bitfinex both want $1 Billion for Crypto Stablecoins
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venture capital
20
- Aug 9, 2021 Acquisition arbitrage between public and private fintech revenues, highlighted by Figure and Starling
- Aug 2, 2021 What do SPACs and IPOs say about Coinbase, Robinhood, Lemonade, SoFi, and other fintech darlings?
- Jul 12, 2021 The fundamentals of Circle's $4.5B SPAC, Robinhood's IPO, and the $30B of fintech venture capital
- Jul 8, 2021 Fintech venture investing after a career in the US treasury and Wall St equity research, with Patrick Pinschmidt of MiddleGame Ventures Jul 9 2
- Jun 28, 2021 The Fintech tipping point is here -- Visa's $2B Tink acquisition, Dave neobank $4B SPAC, and Revolut's 15MM users in context
- May 24, 2021 Bitcoin price falling doesn't mean what Paul Krugman claims
- May 10, 2021 Lessons from Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Galaxy Digital, and the emerging DAOs for building a Fintech empire
- Feb 15, 2021 How $12 Billion in Fintech SPAC capital is teaching us about the economics of target unicorns like Payoneer, Apex, SoFi, and MoneyLion
- Jan 18, 2021 Explaining ~100x revenue multiples for Affirm, Checkout, Rapyd, and other fintech companies using systems theory
- Nov 27, 2020 Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures on DeFi and NFT investing and acceleration
- Oct 5, 2020 Is Finance asking *interesting* questions? Exploring startups, industries, and the nature of work.
- Sep 7, 2020 How signalling explains SoftBank's $4 billion call option trade, SushiSwap's vampire attack, and why we make Art
- May 5, 2020 Inside The Decision to Shutter Moven’s B2C Business, with Brett King
- Apr 6, 2020 Why Fintech Venture Capital firms are not returning your calls and emails
- Mar 2, 2020 How Coronovirus impacts Fintech, Financial Markets, and the global Economy
- Dec 16, 2019 Unicorn valuations are bad for your health -- the Prisoner's Dilemma of WeWork and Magic Leap
- Sep 30, 2019 You don't get to cheat just because you like to win -- on WeWork, Politics, and Fintech
- Sep 2, 2019 Will Open Source business models rule the world, as Enterprise Ethereum Pantheon joins Hyperledger
- Jul 19, 2019 Big Fintech: LSE's $27B for Refinitiv, Softbank's second $108B vision, Ping An's $160B Revenue
- May 13, 2019 What Uber's IPO means for Fintech and Banks
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IPO / SPAC
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- Dec 15, 2021 The State of Decentralized network M&A in 2021, with Polygon's $650MM of acquisitions
- Aug 9, 2021 Acquisition arbitrage between public and private fintech revenues, highlighted by Figure and Starling
- Aug 2, 2021 What do SPACs and IPOs say about Coinbase, Robinhood, Lemonade, SoFi, and other fintech darlings?
- Jul 12, 2021 The fundamentals of Circle's $4.5B SPAC, Robinhood's IPO, and the $30B of fintech venture capital
- Jun 28, 2021 The Fintech tipping point is here -- Visa's $2B Tink acquisition, Dave neobank $4B SPAC, and Revolut's 15MM users in context
- Jun 1, 2021 The $2.2 billion Acorns SPAC and a $50 billion fintech roll-up strategy for public funds
- May 17, 2021 Marqeta's $300MM of revenue & Ethereum's $20B in ann. transaction fees highlight opportunity and industry structure
- Apr 19, 2021 Grab's $40 billion SPAC in the context of Uber's borked neobank, Apple's iOS, and Ant Financial's superapp
- Mar 22, 2021 Understanding the Fintech user growth behind the $10.4 billion eToro SPAC and coming Chime IPO vs. the melting Megabanks
- Feb 25, 2021 Why Coinbase's $100B+ valuation makes sense, and how to compare it to $60B Ethereum DeFi, and to crypto-king Binance
- Feb 15, 2021 How $12 Billion in Fintech SPAC capital is teaching us about the economics of target unicorns like Payoneer, Apex, SoFi, and MoneyLion
- Jan 15, 2021 Who wins and loses in the Plaid/Visa divorce, and the $10 Billion in new Fintech SPACs (Spakkt and Spofi), with Will Beeson
- Dec 14, 2020 The 2020 guide to Fintech SPACs, and how to get them to like you
- Sep 21, 2020 Is Ant Financial the best Fintech in the world? Let's analyze the IPO!
- Aug 21, 2020 Decentralized Finance 101 with Kerman Kohli
- Jul 13, 2020 How Coinbase Pre-IPO Economics Could Get a $15 Billion Valuation
- Dec 2, 2019 Shifting from Institutions to Retail Clients -- NYSE direct listings and Central Bank digital currencies
- Jun 17, 2019 The Ethics of $2B Lemonade, $100B Softbank Visions, and $500MM of Binance IEOs
- May 13, 2019 What Uber's IPO means for Fintech and Banks
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visual art
19
- Oct 6, 2021 User-Generated Finance and Cultural Financial Instruments, via Snoop Dogg, Dapper Labs, and $1.5B Decentralized Social
- Sep 10, 2021 Art Blocks CEO Erick Calderon on Generative Art, Blockchains, and the NFT movement
- Aug 23, 2021 Creating, Transacting, and Storing Value in the Financial Metaverse of NFTs, DAOs, and DeFi
- Jul 26, 2021 Getting ahead in Facebook's Metaverse by earning the Harvard of NFTs
- Jul 16, 2021 Hallucinating Art and Finance with CLIP, VQGAN, and Big Sleep
- Jul 5, 2021 Luxury and Fashion market structure applied to finance, NFTs, and DAO
- Jun 25, 2021 Inspiring creativity, collaboration, and visual conversation by harnessing decentralized tech, with Beatriz Helena Ramos of DADA.art
- May 3, 2021 The top 5 NFT trends for 2021, and current state of the NFT market
- Mar 5, 2021 How a moment on the NYC 6 train turned into using NFTs in the $74T supply chain industry before NFTs were cool, with Tyler Mulvihill of EulerBeats
- Feb 8, 2021 Non-fungible tokens and crypto art (like Hashmasks) will create multi-billion markets for digital objects with financial features
- Jan 25, 2021 What 1840s "Free Banking" and the 1910s Cubist movement suggests about DeFi and economic machine evolution
- Jan 8, 2021 Lessons for banking and finance from video game interface design
- Dec 18, 2020 Connecting the $2T in Art owned by UHNW investors, with the rise of crypto art and Beeple's $3.5MM NFT digital art auction
- Oct 2, 2020 Fintech in the Metaverse, plus NFTs, Crypto Art, and Epic Games
- Jul 27, 2020 OpenAI, backed with $1B+ by Elon Musk & MSFT, can now program SQL and write Harry Potter fan-fiction
- Jul 3, 2020 White Obama made by Artificial Intelligence
- May 8, 2020 Artificial Intelligence that writes pop songs and paints portraits
- Aug 27, 2019 Fighting Chinese Artificial Intelligence with lasers and American Crypto with European Central Banks
- Jul 22, 2019 What Finance can learn from the Evolution of Beautiful Artificial Intelligence Art
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China
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- Oct 22, 2021 How China is winning the race in Fintech, Payments, and CBDCs, with Fintech expert Richard Turrin
- Aug 5, 2021 Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum on the 4th Industrial Revolution, the role of Law, Government, and DAOs, and the Creator Economy
- Jun 14, 2021 The links between tech, commerce, and finance behind Klarna's $45B valuation and Pinduoduo's $150B marketcap
- Jun 7, 2021 Purpose of Identity, its connection to finance, and implementations in the Euro digital wallet and DeFi protocols
- Mar 15, 2021 The battle for Chinese Fintech as China highlights blockchain in Five Year Plan, ramps up Ant and Tencent regulation, phases in e-CNY
- Jan 22, 2021 Embedded Finance as a $7 trillion market opportunity for banks in the business of suffering, with Simon Torrance
- Nov 13, 2020 The system versus the individual -- a meditation on the American election, Alibaba's dethroning, and Fintech theater
- Nov 9, 2020 Will the Blockchain Economy run on Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Central Bank Digital Currency?
- Sep 21, 2020 Is Ant Financial the best Fintech in the world? Let's analyze the IPO!
- Aug 3, 2020 The symbolic battle over TikTok, intellectual property, and blockchain-based finance
- Jul 31, 2020 Growth of brand banking, tragedy of OnDeck vs. Kabbage, and the Indian Fintech war between WhatsApp and WeChat
- Jul 27, 2020 OpenAI, backed with $1B+ by Elon Musk & MSFT, can now program SQL and write Harry Potter fan-fiction
- Apr 20, 2020 War over Money reaches new heights, as Libra opts into regulation, China launches national blockchain, and Financial Stability Board raises alarm
- Oct 14, 2019 The political limits of commerce -- Telegram's $1.7B US offering and NBA's $1.5B China deal
- Sep 23, 2019 Facebook's Supreme Court is like Compliance in Banks, or Chinese Communist Party entities in joint ventures
- Aug 27, 2019 Fighting Chinese Artificial Intelligence with lasers and American Crypto with European Central Banks
- Jul 19, 2019 Big Fintech: LSE's $27B for Refinitiv, Softbank's second $108B vision, Ping An's $160B Revenue
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asset management
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- Dec 17, 2021 Pioneering Crypto ETPs to $3B in assets in 3 years, with 21Shares CEO Hany Rashwan
- Oct 1, 2021 Robinhood's order flow disrupting equities and crypto market structure, with Paul Rowady of Alphacution
- Jul 23, 2021 eToro CEO Yoni Assia on the purpose of investing, crypto assets, and building a $10B fintech
- Jun 18, 2021 A meditation on capitalism, the grey goo, and the Borganisms
- Jun 1, 2021 The $2.2 billion Acorns SPAC and a $50 billion fintech roll-up strategy for public funds
- Feb 12, 2021 How M1 Finance's $3B AUM super-app is outcompeting Wealthfront, Robinhood, and Schwab, with CEO Brian Barnes
- Dec 18, 2020 Connecting the $2T in Art owned by UHNW investors, with the rise of crypto art and Beeple's $3.5MM NFT digital art auction
- Nov 20, 2020 How roboadvisors, B2C fintechs, and high tech giants are causing deep shifts in wealth management
- Oct 9, 2020 Why Peer-to-Peer models fail against oligopoly, with Lending Club shutting down p2p platform, Seedrs/Crowdcube merging, and Morgan Stanley buying Eaton Vance for $7B
- Apr 6, 2020 Why Fintech Venture Capital firms are not returning your calls and emails
- Mar 23, 2020 Why $2 trillion is barely enough for the coming unemployment spike, expected 20%+ GDP slow-down, and small business crunch
- Feb 24, 2020 Financial Empires fall -- HSBC to fire 35,000; E*TRADE sells to Morgan Stanley for $13B
- Feb 10, 2020 Can the $4 Trillion municipal bond market be a digital asset in your pocket?
- Feb 3, 2020 Citi launches free roboadvisor, and how roboadvisors are like Twinkies
- Dec 30, 2019 7,000 bank branches shut down and 425,000 jobs lost -- melting Banking into a glass half full
- Nov 25, 2019 Implications of Schwab's $26 billion acquisition of TD Ameritrade, and Tesla's black swan truck
- May 27, 2019 How the SEC is wrong about the Internet and the Bitcoin ETF
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stablecoins
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- Dec 1, 2021 What will Stripe do in crypto?
- Nov 24, 2021 World Economic Forum CBDC analysis in the era of Populism, Institutionalism, and Hofstede's Cultural DNA
- Oct 21, 2021 DeFi 2.0 Primer (part 1): Rise of Protocol Owned Liquidity and Olympus DAO mechanics
- Jul 12, 2021 The fundamentals of Circle's $4.5B SPAC, Robinhood's IPO, and the $30B of fintech venture capital
- Apr 23, 2021 Building the foundational money DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) in DeFi, with Rune Christensen of Maker Foundation
- Apr 9, 2021 Building blockchain money and sustainable economies, with former Supervisory Board Chairman of the Icelandic Central Bank and Co-founder of Monerium, Jon Egilsson
- Jan 11, 2021 How the OCC is building Crypto America and saving banks from extinction
- Dec 21, 2020 Crypto regulatory wargames with FinCen, FCA, and the US House of Reps, impacting Paxos, Compound, BBVA, and Northern Trust
- Dec 11, 2020 5 Reactions to Messari's 134 page crypto report
- Aug 21, 2020 Decentralized Finance 101 with Kerman Kohli
- May 1, 2020 Libra, Stablecoins, CBDCs and the Need for Digital Money
- Apr 20, 2020 War over Money reaches new heights, as Libra opts into regulation, China launches national blockchain, and Financial Stability Board raises alarm
- Dec 23, 2019 Top 5 Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020 and beyond
- Dec 2, 2019 Shifting from Institutions to Retail Clients -- NYSE direct listings and Central Bank digital currencies
- Jul 1, 2019 $1B moved for $0.02 fee on Binance, $600M of Tether printed, $200M in DeFi lending
- May 6, 2019 Facebook and Bitfinex both want $1 Billion for Crypto Stablecoins
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eCommerce
11
- Jul 5, 2021 Luxury and Fashion market structure applied to finance, NFTs, and DAO
- Jun 14, 2021 The links between tech, commerce, and finance behind Klarna's $45B valuation and Pinduoduo's $150B marketcap
- Jun 11, 2021 From ecommerce to a million+ global financial community, with Maximilian Rofagha of Finimize
- Apr 30, 2021 Scaling B2B cross-border payments and the competition between global payment rails, with Marwan Forzley of Veem
- Apr 16, 2021 Building global paytech companies and communities with Anil Aggarwal of TxVia, Money2020, and Fintech Meetup
- Mar 1, 2021 The Federal Reserve Payment Processor, its $100B of revenue, and whether blockchains and L2s can match the value it settles
- Jun 5, 2020 Cash App, Venmo, Digital Wallets and Challenger Banks with ARK Invest
- May 29, 2020 Brex Raises Again, Shopify Launches Bank Accounts and M&A Ideas for Goldman
- Dec 30, 2019 7,000 bank branches shut down and 425,000 jobs lost -- melting Banking into a glass half full
- Jul 8, 2019 Google and Amazon's mixed reality advertising could become digital lending and payments platforms
- Jun 10, 2019 JP Morgan's dead Neobank mistook Digital for a Channel, EOS Voice is $150MM in the wrong direction
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marketing
11
- Oct 6, 2021 User-Generated Finance and Cultural Financial Instruments, via Snoop Dogg, Dapper Labs, and $1.5B Decentralized Social
- Aug 20, 2021 Altruist CEO Jason Wenk on WealthTech, financial planning, advice, and generally improving financial health
- Jul 30, 2021 Step CEO CJ MacDonald on building the leading Gen-Z bank, TikTok influencers, and money culture
- Jul 19, 2021 The difference between Gen Z and Millennial online culture, resulting in DAOs, decentralization, and creative financial communities
- Jul 5, 2021 Luxury and Fashion market structure applied to finance, NFTs, and DAO
- Oct 21, 2019 Double Standards -- Fortnite game praised for black-out, neobank Chime upsets 5 million customers
- Sep 19, 2019 Insurtech Heat -- Prudential pays $2B for 3yr old start-up and Tesla insures own smart cars
- Jul 8, 2019 Google and Amazon's mixed reality advertising could become digital lending and payments platforms
- Jun 24, 2019 Lessons from Uber's JUMP bikes on evolution in capitalism, Facebook's crypto money monopoly
- May 20, 2019 Goldman pays $750M for wealth platform United Capital, Jefferies gives blockchain-lender Figure $1B
- Apr 29, 2019 Wealthfront's $1 Billion of Cash in Two Months
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covid pandemic
10
- Jan 4, 2021 What do Bitcoin, Ethereum, GDP, unemployment, and Covid have in common in 2021?
- Aug 3, 2020 The symbolic battle over TikTok, intellectual property, and blockchain-based finance
- Apr 27, 2020 Betterment launches bank accounts into a world that has changed completely
- Apr 20, 2020 War over Money reaches new heights, as Libra opts into regulation, China launches national blockchain, and Financial Stability Board raises alarm
- Apr 13, 2020 Apple and Google help with government contact tracing, setting stage for war over Data
- Apr 6, 2020 Why Fintech Venture Capital firms are not returning your calls and emails
- Mar 30, 2020 Creativity and courage are the vaccine -- from molecular technology, to digital workspaces, to solving for global health data
- Mar 23, 2020 Why $2 trillion is barely enough for the coming unemployment spike, expected 20%+ GDP slow-down, and small business crunch
- Mar 16, 2020 Slowing GDP growth by 1.5% is like another 10 million people getting infected with coronovirus, and other analysis on financial fragility
- Mar 2, 2020 How Coronovirus impacts Fintech, Financial Markets, and the global Economy
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fixed income
10
- Nov 5, 2021 Building a $15B+ embedded loan management platform, with LoanPro CEO Rhett Roberts
- Aug 9, 2021 Acquisition arbitrage between public and private fintech revenues, highlighted by Figure and Starling
- May 21, 2021 Rob Leshner of Compound on creating a multi-billion DeFi lending protocol, and innovation under constraint
- Jul 17, 2020 Figure, SoFi and the Disruption of Finance with Mike Cagney
- May 15, 2020 Technology, Empathy and Finance in a Time of Crisis, with Ohad Samet of TrueAccord
- Mar 23, 2020 Why $2 trillion is barely enough for the coming unemployment spike, expected 20%+ GDP slow-down, and small business crunch
- Mar 16, 2020 Slowing GDP growth by 1.5% is like another 10 million people getting infected with coronovirus, and other analysis on financial fragility
- Mar 2, 2020 How Coronovirus impacts Fintech, Financial Markets, and the global Economy
- Feb 10, 2020 Can the $4 Trillion municipal bond market be a digital asset in your pocket?
- Sep 23, 2019 Facebook's Supreme Court is like Compliance in Banks, or Chinese Communist Party entities in joint ventures
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generational change
10
- Oct 10, 2022 The Roaring Twenties of Populism, Institutionalism, and Technology's Meaning
- Sep 3, 2021 Metaverse 101 with Lex Sokolin and Cris Sheridan, Sr. Editor of Financial Sense
- Jul 30, 2021 Step CEO CJ MacDonald on building the leading Gen-Z bank, TikTok influencers, and money culture
- Jul 19, 2021 The difference between Gen Z and Millennial online culture, resulting in DAOs, decentralization, and creative financial communities
- Jun 11, 2021 From ecommerce to a million+ global financial community, with Maximilian Rofagha of Finimize
- Apr 26, 2021 What TikTok's GenZ financial influencers mean for RIAs, wealthtech, and financial advice
- Jan 25, 2021 What 1840s "Free Banking" and the 1910s Cubist movement suggests about DeFi and economic machine evolution
- Jan 4, 2021 What do Bitcoin, Ethereum, GDP, unemployment, and Covid have in common in 2021?
- Feb 17, 2020 Worldline's $8B acquisition of Ingenico's $3B revenue would barely pay for Robinhood or Revolut's valuations
- Nov 19, 2019 Ok, Boomer -- a meme for the broken political economy
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mega banks
10
- Dec 8, 2021 What Goldman's institutional financial cloud on Amazon means for embedded finance
- Nov 19, 2021 Digitizing banks with better BNPL, Underwriting, and Anti-Fraud Tech, with Amount CEO Adam Hughes
- Oct 13, 2021 The Law of Unintended Consequences via Wells Fargo, Divergence Ventures, DeFi designs, and the Federal Reserve
- Aug 30, 2021 OnlyFans bank-forced adult content ban, its failure, and the Metaphysics of Finance
- Aug 13, 2021 Treasury Prime CEO Chris Dean on Banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, and the evolution of FinTech API infrastructure
- Jul 30, 2021 Step CEO CJ MacDonald on building the leading Gen-Z bank, TikTok influencers, and money culture
- Mar 22, 2021 Understanding the Fintech user growth behind the $10.4 billion eToro SPAC and coming Chime IPO vs. the melting Megabanks
- Jan 25, 2021 What 1840s "Free Banking" and the 1910s Cubist movement suggests about DeFi and economic machine evolution
- Nov 23, 2020 Google has come to Banking. What does that mean, and what should we do about it?
- Oct 7, 2019 Fintech Price War -- Goldman's $1.3B Marcus burn, Neobank £200MM loss, ETrade's $75MM trading fees
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ICO / IEO
9
- Jul 23, 2021 eToro CEO Yoni Assia on the purpose of investing, crypto assets, and building a $10B fintech
- Jun 25, 2021 Inspiring creativity, collaboration, and visual conversation by harnessing decentralized tech, with Beatriz Helena Ramos of DADA.art
- Nov 30, 2020 Mergers and Acquisitions in open-source Decentralized Finance, and its $5 billion market capitalization
- Aug 21, 2020 Decentralized Finance 101 with Kerman Kohli
- Apr 6, 2020 Why Fintech Venture Capital firms are not returning your calls and emails
- Dec 23, 2019 Top 5 Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020 and beyond
- Dec 2, 2019 Shifting from Institutions to Retail Clients -- NYSE direct listings and Central Bank digital currencies
- Oct 14, 2019 The political limits of commerce -- Telegram's $1.7B US offering and NBA's $1.5B China deal
- Jun 17, 2019 The Ethics of $2B Lemonade, $100B Softbank Visions, and $500MM of Binance IEOs
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acquisition
9
- Aug 9, 2021 Acquisition arbitrage between public and private fintech revenues, highlighted by Figure and Starling
- Jan 15, 2021 Who wins and loses in the Plaid/Visa divorce, and the $10 Billion in new Fintech SPACs (Spakkt and Spofi), with Will Beeson
- Dec 14, 2020 The 2020 guide to Fintech SPACs, and how to get them to like you
- Nov 30, 2020 Mergers and Acquisitions in open-source Decentralized Finance, and its $5 billion market capitalization
- Jul 10, 2020 Personal Capital is Acquired for $1 Billion, Lemonade IPOs and PayPal Joins the Crypto Club
- Jun 26, 2020 WhatsApp Payments Halted in Brazil, Stripe competitor Checkout.com is Worth $5.5B, Upgrade raises $40MM
- May 18, 2020 Goldman is trying to build a Fintech powerhouse, and this is how they should do it
- Jan 20, 2020 Is Plaid cheap at $5.3 billion for $500 billion Visa?
- May 20, 2019 Goldman pays $750M for wealth platform United Capital, Jefferies gives blockchain-lender Figure $1B
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augmented reality
9
- Jan 8, 2021 Lessons for banking and finance from video game interface design
- Nov 27, 2020 Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures on DeFi and NFT investing and acceleration
- Oct 19, 2020 From Fintech to Augmented Reality Commerce to Artificially Intelligent Agents
- May 25, 2020 Apple's augmented reality leak, and what Fintech should do for the coming Multiverse
- Jan 13, 2020 Have Facebook Messenger Chatbots failed for Finance?
- Dec 10, 2019 Neobank Chime valued at $6 billion with 7 million users, Goldman to launch roboadvisor with $5,000 minimum
- Sep 19, 2019 Insurtech Heat -- Prudential pays $2B for 3yr old start-up and Tesla insures own smart cars
- Aug 12, 2019 Real Estate Tech brokerage Compass earns its $6.4 billion valuation from smart arbitrage
- Jul 8, 2019 Google and Amazon's mixed reality advertising could become digital lending and payments platforms
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Fractals & reflexivity
8
- Oct 13, 2021 The Law of Unintended Consequences via Wells Fargo, Divergence Ventures, DeFi designs, and the Federal Reserve
- Jun 18, 2021 A meditation on capitalism, the grey goo, and the Borganisms
- Apr 12, 2021 The "fundamental" economic design driving crypto valuation to $2 trillion
- Feb 25, 2021 Why Coinbase's $100B+ valuation makes sense, and how to compare it to $60B Ethereum DeFi, and to crypto-king Binance
- Nov 13, 2020 The system versus the individual -- a meditation on the American election, Alibaba's dethroning, and Fintech theater
- Sep 11, 2020 The nature of Consciousness, artificial intelligence, and how we see Finance Sep 11, 2020 1
- Apr 24, 2020 The Grand Theory of the Universe
- Feb 17, 2020 Worldline's $8B acquisition of Ingenico's $3B revenue would barely pay for Robinhood or Revolut's valuations
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digital securities / STO
8
- Dec 17, 2021 Pioneering Crypto ETPs to $3B in assets in 3 years, with 21Shares CEO Hany Rashwan
- May 28, 2021 The software stack powering Capital Markets and its coming transformation, with Horacio Barakat of Broadridge
- Jan 29, 2021 The path from institutional finance (Goldman) to enterprise blockchain (PwC) to the $26B edge of DeFi innovation (Aave) with Ajit Tripathi
- Sep 28, 2020 DeFi should take the middle road between the extremes of QAnon and J.P. Morgan
- Aug 17, 2020 How Monzo, Revolut, and Starling get to break-even, and comparison with WeChat and Facebook
- Jun 22, 2020 Everyone should trade the billions in DeFi Structured Products! Or do digital asset derivatives need custodians and regulators?
- Feb 10, 2020 Can the $4 Trillion municipal bond market be a digital asset in your pocket?
- Dec 23, 2019 Top 5 Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020 and beyond
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identity and privacy
8
- Oct 6, 2021 User-Generated Finance and Cultural Financial Instruments, via Snoop Dogg, Dapper Labs, and $1.5B Decentralized Social
- Sep 6, 2021 Financial Mythmaking with $200MM of Loot NFTs and their growing world
- Aug 27, 2021 Is Fintech or DeFi Bigger? And Who eats Whom? Hosted by The Defiant
- Jun 7, 2021 Purpose of Identity, its connection to finance, and implementations in the Euro digital wallet and DeFi protocols
- May 7, 2021 Decentralized Identity and the Metaverse, with Michael Sena of The Ceramic Network
- Oct 23, 2020 How IBM spinning-out $18B of managed infrastructure revenue, or Reliance Jio growing to 400MM mobile users, creates a chassis for digital finance
- Apr 13, 2020 Apple and Google help with government contact tracing, setting stage for war over Data
- Mar 30, 2020 Creativity and courage are the vaccine -- from molecular technology, to digital workspaces, to solving for global health data
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super app
8
- Oct 22, 2021 How China is winning the race in Fintech, Payments, and CBDCs, with Fintech expert Richard Turrin
- Jun 14, 2021 The links between tech, commerce, and finance behind Klarna's $45B valuation and Pinduoduo's $150B marketcap
- Apr 19, 2021 Grab's $40 billion SPAC in the context of Uber's borked neobank, Apple's iOS, and Ant Financial's superapp
- Mar 15, 2021 The battle for Chinese Fintech as China highlights blockchain in Five Year Plan, ramps up Ant and Tencent regulation, phases in e-CNY
- Dec 4, 2020 Anne Boden of Starling Bank on $4B of deposits, 1.8MM customers, and neobank profitablity
- Nov 23, 2020 Google has come to Banking. What does that mean, and what should we do about it?
- Jun 15, 2020 Amazon/Goldman partnership, TikTok banking license, and Ethereum fintech through the lens of Aggregation Theory & Super Apps
- May 13, 2019 What Uber's IPO means for Fintech and Banks
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narrative zeitgeist
7
- Nov 24, 2021 World Economic Forum CBDC analysis in the era of Populism, Institutionalism, and Hofstede's Cultural DNA
- Feb 5, 2021 The post-FinTech New American Finance, and Robinhood’s $3.4B support of an 8MM-strong Reddit army that cost Wall Street $7B, with Will Beeson of Bella
- Jan 25, 2021 What 1840s "Free Banking" and the 1910s Cubist movement suggests about DeFi and economic machine evolution
- Nov 27, 2020 Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures on DeFi and NFT investing and acceleration
- Mar 2, 2020 How Coronovirus impacts Fintech, Financial Markets, and the global Economy
- Nov 19, 2019 Ok, Boomer -- a meme for the broken political economy
- Sep 23, 2019 Facebook's Supreme Court is like Compliance in Banks, or Chinese Communist Party entities in joint ventures
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open banking / PSD2
7
- Dec 8, 2021 What Goldman's institutional financial cloud on Amazon means for embedded finance
- Nov 10, 2021 Plaid's payments ecosystem & Affirm's decoupled debit card reveal embedded finance Trojan Horse
- Aug 13, 2021 Treasury Prime CEO Chris Dean on Banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, and the evolution of FinTech API infrastructure
- Jun 28, 2021 The Fintech tipping point is here -- Visa's $2B Tink acquisition, Dave neobank $4B SPAC, and Revolut's 15MM users in context
- Jan 11, 2021 How the OCC is building Crypto America and saving banks from extinction
- Nov 23, 2020 Google has come to Banking. What does that mean, and what should we do about it?
- Jan 20, 2020 Is Plaid cheap at $5.3 billion for $500 billion Visa?
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entrepreneurship
6
- Aug 20, 2021 Altruist CEO Jason Wenk on WealthTech, financial planning, advice, and generally improving financial health
- May 17, 2021 Marqeta's $300MM of revenue & Ethereum's $20B in ann. transaction fees highlight opportunity and industry structure
- May 10, 2021 Lessons from Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Galaxy Digital, and the emerging DAOs for building a Fintech empire
- Jul 17, 2020 Figure, SoFi and the Disruption of Finance with Mike Cagney
- Jun 19, 2020 How to Build a $3.5B Profitable Digital Bank with Tinkoff
- Jun 8, 2020 What can Fintech learn from Elon Musk and SpaceX getting astronauts to space for 90% cheaper than NASA?
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microeconomics
6
- Oct 13, 2021 The Law of Unintended Consequences via Wells Fargo, Divergence Ventures, DeFi designs, and the Federal Reserve
- Jul 5, 2021 Luxury and Fashion market structure applied to finance, NFTs, and DAO
- May 21, 2021 Rob Leshner of Compound on creating a multi-billion DeFi lending protocol, and innovation under constraint
- Feb 17, 2020 Worldline's $8B acquisition of Ingenico's $3B revenue would barely pay for Robinhood or Revolut's valuations
- Nov 19, 2019 Ok, Boomer -- a meme for the broken political economy
- Aug 5, 2019 Losing our Sacred Data - how to make sense of Capital One, Equifax, and Facebook
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small business
6
- Jun 14, 2021 The links between tech, commerce, and finance behind Klarna's $45B valuation and Pinduoduo's $150B marketcap
- Apr 30, 2021 Scaling B2B cross-border payments and the competition between global payment rails, with Marwan Forzley of Veem
- Apr 20, 2020 War over Money reaches new heights, as Libra opts into regulation, China launches national blockchain, and Financial Stability Board raises alarm
- Apr 6, 2020 Why Fintech Venture Capital firms are not returning your calls and emails
- Mar 23, 2020 Why $2 trillion is barely enough for the coming unemployment spike, expected 20%+ GDP slow-down, and small business crunch
- Jun 3, 2019 $20 Billion TSYS acquisition in the shadow of Alibaba's $500B SME aggregation
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monetization / commercial
5
- May 17, 2021 Marqeta's $300MM of revenue & Ethereum's $20B in ann. transaction fees highlight opportunity and industry structure
- May 10, 2021 Lessons from Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Galaxy Digital, and the emerging DAOs for building a Fintech empire
- Apr 5, 2021 Getting paid now for future performance with Pipe's $150MM raise and BitClout's $200MM of Bitcoin
- Mar 22, 2021 Understanding the Fintech user growth behind the $10.4 billion eToro SPAC and coming Chime IPO vs. the melting Megabanks
- Jan 18, 2021 Explaining ~100x revenue multiples for Affirm, Checkout, Rapyd, and other fintech companies using systems theory
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music industry
5
- Mar 8, 2021 Why Square bought Jay Z's music service Tidal for $300MM, and how the NFT-driven transformation of music royalties and ownership can explain this future
- Mar 5, 2021 How a moment on the NYC 6 train turned into using NFTs in the $74T supply chain industry before NFTs were cool, with Tyler Mulvihill of EulerBeats
- Oct 9, 2020 Why Peer-to-Peer models fail against oligopoly, with Lending Club shutting down p2p platform, Seedrs/Crowdcube merging, and Morgan Stanley buying Eaton Vance for $7B
- May 8, 2020 Artificial Intelligence that writes pop songs and paints portraits
- Oct 21, 2019 Double Standards -- Fortnite game praised for black-out, neobank Chime upsets 5 million customers
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open source
5
- Dec 8, 2021 What Goldman's institutional financial cloud on Amazon means for embedded finance
- Oct 20, 2021 Scaling Web3 with the $10B+ Polygon protocol, with COO Sandeep Nailwal
- Jun 4, 2021 Developing regenerative finance using memes for the public good, with Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin
- Dec 21, 2020 Crypto regulatory wargames with FinCen, FCA, and the US House of Reps, impacting Paxos, Compound, BBVA, and Northern Trust
- Sep 2, 2019 Will Open Source business models rule the world, as Enterprise Ethereum Pantheon joins Hyperledger
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game theory
4
- Oct 21, 2021 DeFi 2.0 Primer (part 1): Rise of Protocol Owned Liquidity and Olympus DAO mechanics
- Apr 12, 2021 The "fundamental" economic design driving crypto valuation to $2 trillion
- Apr 24, 2020 The Grand Theory of the Universe
- Dec 16, 2019 Unicorn valuations are bad for your health -- the Prisoner's Dilemma of WeWork and Magic Leap