Finance and fintech
Cash to crypto: Spain’s fiery fintech journey
The orange tree-lined streets of Spain are bursting and sputtering with contrast. Clusters of old men huddle noisily around café tables, breakfasting on bitter coffee and crunchy toast slathered with tomato. Their sharp
Oil wars: It’s all about dollarisation
There is a troubling pattern between US invasions, and when oil states stop trading in dollars. After 20 years of trading oil in dollars, Iraq’s Saddam Hussain switched to euros in the year
✨ 2025, wrapped! ✨
Data-heavy is how I would describe the past twelve months. Of the 42 articles I wrote, more than half of them were (at least somewhat) on the topic of data analysis, making it
The Worrying Rise of ChatGPT Therapy
People using ChatGPT as a therapist 🤔 It’s becoming so normal that the platform creators have even had to take steps recently to try to prevent it … According to OpenAI founder, Sam
How much cash do you have right now?
Brexit took a toll. Covid was a struggle. But nothing took down my freelance business faster than 14 hours without electricity. How much cash do you have right now? Not in your Apple
How the USA benefits from a far-right Europe (and a weak euro)
As the euro poses an increasing threat to the USA’s world dominance, politicians are fighting to break up the union.
Uuuhhh…. Is AI the new dot.com? 😬
The Dot.com bubble. Say this to an old school banker and watch them shiver. They may even temporarily put down their gin and tonic. The dot.com memory is like throwing a slimy bucket
Is the Elon Musk bubble (finally) about to pop? 🫧
The Elon Musk fan club. It’s not just pale incels. Musk believers are spread far and wide. The US government has contracts worth a combined $19 billion with Tesla and Space X. These
VCs: What’s HOT?🔥… and what’s hella NOT?💩
“Streamlined” is how Kibo Ventures’ co-founder, Aquilino Pena describes today’s funding environment. We’re at Barcelona’s bustling Mobile World Congress. He’s onstage, talking in a panel. I’m on a plastic chair in the stalls,
The epic power of partying
My legs are 🔥BURNING🔥 right now. And it’s been six entire days since I stopped dancing at the FFAwards. SIX. Thank god I wore my comfy heels. I’ve just returned from London’s epic
You know you work in finance when…
Hope you like my list! If you’ve got any more to add, I’d love to hear them! Here are a few pics of my days working in finance 👇👇👇
Are we living at the start of a dictatorship?
Today’s politics is full of noise, distractions and bad smells. This blog was written partly for my own sanity. I need to see the truth. I’m sick of being lied to. Writing this