Andrew Samu

Companies like Lab49 are working with both the sell-side and now more and more with the buy-side when it comes to FX technology.

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Is Nick Clegg Zuckerberg’s King of the Metaverse?

February 17, 2022

Last year the UK’s Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries was quoted saying: “Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg and others who are wanting to take off into the metaverse, my advice is stay in the real world

Blockchain News

Forget assets on Earth, Space Assets are coming

February 10, 2022

Space might better resemble the decentralized nature of the cryptocurrency ecosystem now. And the Moon will be the stage for one of the first real use cases for space ‘asset-ization’, as Grant calls it.

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Is there a Silicon Valley Mafia?

February 8, 2022

A week after Startup founder Ryan Breslow resigned as CEO of Bolt. DisruptionBanking explores the story and draws on recent news from Silicon Valley. About the PayPal Mafia and Elizabeth Holmes.

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Should DJ Solomon be paid $35 million for his work in 2021?

February 3, 2022

DJ Solomon is the new bank CEO. Like his counterpart at Citi. Solomon and Fraser are new influencers on Wall Street. And there is more to the achievements of Solomon if you consider it from this angle.

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Credit Suisse and their Chairman part ways, but questions remain unanswered

January 20, 2022

When he joined in May 2021, Antonio Horta-Osorio, Credit Suisse’s new Chairman, went out and acquired $1.2 million worth of shares in the group. Showing just how serious he was about the job. Less than 9 months later he was gone.

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Is BNP Paribas building Europe’s first Mega Bank?

January 12, 2022

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What do we know about the new CEO of Barclays?

January 4, 2022

How much of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial affected the exit of previous CEO, Jes Staley, is hard to say. But today is all about the new CEO of Barclays. Coimbatore-Sundararajan “C. S.” Venkatakrishnan, or 'Ventak'.

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Why is Deutsche Bank focusing on ESG?

December 29, 2021

Only a few months ago Deutsche Bank became entangled in a story about ‘greenwashing’.

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Ethereum’s price predictions in 2022

December 27, 2021

Vitalik Buterin is not as outspoken as Elon Musk or a host of other celebrities who have joined the cryptocurrency and NFT bandwagon.

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Retail Investors – Easy Pickings?

December 8, 2021

Just as Reddit users drove prices of GameStop and Robinhood stock, the same is the case in crypto. Today, Matt Damon is the face of Crypto.com. Not to mention Kim Kardashian…

Banking News

Why ION MarketFactory is focussed on Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)

December 2, 2021

MarketFactory and TradeFeedr's partnership will allow market participants across the sell-side, buy-side, regional banks, hedge funds, brokers and central banks to connect, analyse their trading data and collaborate. The entire foreign exchange market will gain the most from our partnership.” Trading Cost Analysis TCA

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Why you should sell your Coinbase stock

November 29, 2021

Coinbase have had lower than anticipated sales and marketing expenses in Q3, the report continues. They anticipate that sales and marketing expenses will be approximately 10% of net revenue for full-year 2021. Compared to what the firm spends on technology and development, marketing is less than 7% of that amount today, let alone of the net revenue.

Banking

Supercharge at Money2020

November 23, 2021

Supercharge is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe, according to Financial Times (FT1000) and Deloitte (Fast50). Supporting customers from their hubs in Amsterdam, Budapest and London, their digital experts are united in the pursuit of discovering and building better futures.

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Bitcoin ETFs bring regulated crypto to global banking

November 15, 2021

ETFs have been the buzzword for both the finance and crypto industries in the last quarter of 2021. Australia’s contribution has been the BetaShares ETF (a fund investing in global crypto-linked companies) launching in early November and delivering over $40m in trades on the ASX debut.

Digital Assets

What About DeFi? With Celo and Chainlink at #SgFinTechFest

November 8, 2021

It’s been a vigorous first day at the #SgFinTechFest. The Festival has already over-exceeded expectations after the first day. While stablecoins haven’t come up quite as much as at other FinTech events, crypto was out in full force. Moderated by Morgan Beller, General Partner of NFX, Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink and Rene Reinsberg, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Celo met to discuss all things DeFi.

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