Martin Baker, award-winning journalist and head of communications at Money&Co., looks at Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). The lunatic with the loudest voice in the asylum at the time of writing is undoubtedly the NFT. Artist Damien Hirst is set to enter the NFT world with much-heralded plans to sell 10,000 artworks tied to corresponding NFTs. The […]
Our head of communications and content, award-wining journalist Martin Baker, continues his survey of the fast-changing face of digital money and its impact on mainstream finance. The problem most journalists face when writing a story is finding a way in. The usual technique is to wrap your arms around a news event, claim its relevance […]
Our head of content and communications opines on the nature of digital money, specifically cryptocurrencies, and its place in – and threat to – the modern nation state. Here’s an extract of his recent article in Byline Times. Rethinking the nature of money is serious stuff. It is, in effect, the re-examination of a concept […]
Our head of content and communications is publishing a series of articles on the future of finance and the massive impact of the digital world in Byline Times. Here’s an extract from the first piece. Rethinking the nature of money is serious stuff: it is in effect the re-examination of a concept of value exchange […]
Ron Kalifa, a non-executive director of the Court of Directors at the Bank of England and the vice-chairman of WorldPay, has produced a long-awaited report on FinTech. The report starts well – with the ever-changing taxonomy of the industry. The simple point is that if we can’t agree standard terms for what FinTech is, we’ll never achieve […]
The bitcoin-led assault on mainstream finance continues. This set of prognostication comes from our friends at Crowdfundinsider. This is piece, partially featured already in our News section, is one we roundly endorse. Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrency platforms such as Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Binance Coin (BNB), Chainlink (LINK), and Polkadot (DOT) […]
Today is the final day of the prediction season for 2021. The prognostications we’ve seen are pretty standard. We agree with most of them – although of course the majority never really achieves much more than a mediocre consensus: There will be more digitisation of financial services. Mainstream banks are already following the lead of […]
The financial world is in a state of flux. For once, the Pandemic is neither an effect and only arguably a cause. Digital currencies – cryptos – are on the march again. The simple fact remains that with the resurgence of Bitcoin – now approaching its highs of December 2107 – traditional monetary systems are […]
Our friends at P2P Finance News recently asked for an update on our progress. We’ve re-focused our lending efforts into key, niche, asset-backed areas. We are happy to run their short news report: Money&Co is looking to expand its lending into TV and film rights as well as other areas of legal finance such as divorce. […]
And so it has come to pass. We’ve long kept a weather eye on the difficult journey of Lending Club, the leading direct lender in the US FinTech sector, since its flotation on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2014. We’ve reported several times in News and in our Blog section. Now, Lending Club […]