Videos
The future of financial centers
I was invited to give the opening keynote at Finance Malta’s Annual Conference 2024. I emphasized the need for financial...
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What will we be worrying about 10 years from now?
I gave this dinner speech at a time when Chinese bankers were worried about the severe property market fallout in...
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DeFi is now forcing change in banking
In my welcome address at the 25th Asian Banker Summit in Hong Kong recently, I made it very clear that...
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Taylor Swift’s digital economics in finance
At an awards dinner speech I gave recently, I outlined what bankers can learn from the Taylor Swift phenomenon and...
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Burnt Banksy – from burning NFT art to refining digital assets
Burnt Banksy, known for his bold stunt of burning a $90,000 Banksy artwork and transforming it into a $400,000 NFT,...
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Why Traditional Banking Is at Risk: The Rise of Digital Currencies
In my conversation with Kevin Rosenquist, we dive into the key forces that are really shaking up the world of...
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What will the Basel regime look like when banking becomes fully digital?
Since its inception in 1984, the Basel regime has been imposing an incredible array of requirements on the banking industry...
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Speed and digitalisation will transform financial products
In this discussion, I highlighted the transformation of traditional depositor-bank relationships. I believe that traditional banks are on the verge...
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Postcard from the Antarctic
Even as visiting the Antarctic is becoming commonplace today, I think of it as a very special place on our...
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Postcard from El Salvador, Bitcoin’s first nation
Highlights of my first trip to El Salvador to capture the early days of the Bitcoin economy. What’s real, what’s...
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How Ricky Thomson and his friends created SafeBoda
Ricky Rapa Thomson, a co-founder of Uganda’s first ride-hailing app SafeBoda, told me just how he and his friends digitized...
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The network effect of the Hong Kong protests
I had two views of China on its national day this year. I spent the morning of 1 October 2019...
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