Finance and fintech
How small and boring “corporate administrative services” help oligarchs move money 🤮
How do criminals move their dirty money? In financial services we’re taught about the methodical way it’s done. The three stages of money laundering are placement, layering and integration. Any wealth professional can
Can we keep the metaverse out of ESG?! 🤦♀️
Updated: Feb 7, 2022 A LOT of our Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) money goes to tech companies. Take the world’s 20 largest ESG funds – worth a combined $340 billion…. Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, Meta
Why do bankers call things “sexy”?😅
Updated: Apr 3, 2023 If you work in wealth management (or had the misfortune to be surrounded by people who do), you’ve likely heard this strange turn of phrase. Out of the blue, and
How blockchain grows cashews 🌰
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
Videos, videos, videos… The genius of the Fintech Finance Awards
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,
It’s not fair to target young people with Buy Now Pay Later
Updated: Mar 7, 2022 Browsing the latest trends online is part of everyday life for 20-year-old student Lauren. Like thousands before her, she feels the pressure to fit in and look good around university.
Everything I learned about embedded finance at FinTech Talents 2021 🚀
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
“Net-zero! Net-Zero! Net-zero!” What you need to know about sustainable marketing with Alexis Eyre
Updated: Mar 10, 2022 Alexis Eyre has changed my work in a hundred tiny little ways. From the images I select to the carbon I emit, her LinkedIn posts push me to do better.
Tartan, Katowice and Greenwashing – An interview with Simon Thompson, CEO of CBI
Updated: Mar 10, 2022 It’s not often you get an email from the CEO of the Chartered Banker Institute. I sat up straighter in my chair to read it. Simon Thompson was looking for
Credit-Union-as-a-Service…? Mbanq and Temenos heat up competition
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
The double lives of tech companies: Where’s our pension money really going?
Updated: Oct 24, 2021 Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook. The top holdings in one of the world’s most popular Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) funds, the ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF. So they must be
How to greenwash: 9 ways BP tricks sustainable investors
Updated: Sep 13, 2021 Sustainable investors beware! BP may seem like a greener company nowadays, and it features on hundreds of ESG funds. But I believe it is all smoke and mirrors. Like all