Fintech

Money2020 is where you discover what you’ll be writing about next year. Seriously. Some of the concepts are so new and abstract that you wonder if you took a wrong turn into one

Walking into Informa’s course, “Mastering Fintech, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies”, I wasn’t sure if I’d made a mistake. Why had I signed up for two days of studying something I already knew? D’oh. I’ve

Back in September 2021, the team at Yolt whispered that they were shutting down. It was so gentle, that hardly anybody heard. This blog was the first in the world to report it.

Updated: May 31, 2022 Grey suits, itchy material and old man smells. What am I talking about? A finance convention, of course! So imagine my surprise when I was greeted with a sea of

WHAT IS LIFE REALLLLLLYYYYY LIKE FOR FINTECH FOUNDERS? Is it stressful? Is it instagrammy? Do they have groupies? What’s the status on being a billionaire? To help me find out, I asked 32

Building a fintech is seriously stressful, that’s according to a survey of 32 founders conducted by me (yay!). Over Winter 2021-22, I quizzed as many genuine fintech founders as I could find to

Updated: Jan 17, 2022 Rural Mozambique seems like an unlikely place for a blockchain revolution. It’s not exactly Silicon Valley. There’s no lanky, t-shirted men floating around on Teslas and hoverboards. Nobody droning on

It’s not every day that Michelle Heaton from Brit-pop sensation, Liberty X, asks you to explain fintech. Normally when a pop star holds a microphone in front of your face at a party,

Updated: Dec 7, 2021 “The race is ON!” These were the words I heard as I squished my way into a packed room, and burrowed towards the stage. But the speaker, Charles McManus, CEO

Updated: Oct 14, 2021 This week some interesting news hit our inboxes. Mbanq and Temenos are launching Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS)… with a difference. Targeting the US’ 5000+ credit unions, the duo is creating the world’s