Why #Francogeddon Will Kill the FX Broker Model
The Broker model is the heart of Wall Street. Brokers take a risk-free fee for executing a transaction. It has ...
Tag: Bitcoin
The creative economy, signed originals and blockchain technology
It is not just money that suffers if there is a double spending problem. Everybody who makes their living in ...
Amsterdam is now the quiet global center for fintech
I chose Amsterdam as the next stop on the Fintech City Tour, primarily because of Adyen. When a Fintech Unicorn ...
Altcoins are not bad for Bitcoin, but are no more important than closed loop loyalty points
Altcoins are not bad for Bitcoin. That is like saying that Starbucks Rewards are bad for the US Dollar. Nor ...
What’s the Role for Banking and Payments at This Week’s CES?
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2015, which officially begins tomorrow in Las Vegas, is the country's premier event for introducing high-tech ...
Cross Border Regulatory Competition to attract Bitcoin ventures
Many Bitcoin ventures are classic micro-multinationals – tiny businesses that operate globally through a virtual office. In 2009, I was ...
Was 2014 a Bad Year for Bitcoin?
As an investment, bitcoin was a particularly poor choice in 2014. You would have been better off with, well, just ...
The 2015 Fintech Headline ‘RIP Bitcoin and XBRL, Incumbency Wins’
I promised myself no New Year prognostication posts, but I could not resist this one. There is too much gloomy ...
Lawsky Floats Further Revision to BitLicense Proposal
Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of financial services for the New York State Department of Financial Services, is perhaps best known among ...
PayPal, Square and Stripe – the disrupters who might be disrupted by Bitcoin
Both Square and Stripe are in the WSJ Billion Dollar Club (but that may not mean as much when you ...
