Remember the need for speed? Sadly, we’re not talking Top Gun, but crowdfunding… Our friends at Crowdfundinsider report on the European way of moving things on, and discover that the Europeans themselves find the slowness of the bureaucracy frustrating. It’s possibly a very, very small silver lining in the dark cloud of Brexit… The European Securities […]
The Norwegians are getting in on the pretend-crypto (aka Central Bank Digital Currency or CBDCs) act. CBDCs are not – repat, not – genuine cryptocurrencies. Cryptos have a decentralised algorithm at the heart of their money system – the maths is on charge, not a central ledger run by a central bank. CBDCs sound like […]
At some stage, we’ll stop pointing out the ever-faster tide of events bring the cyber and the digital into our homes and wallets. At some stage, but not yet. The latest snippet comes from our friends at news platform, Altfi. Having captured seven per cent of all UK SMEs at the start of the year, Tide is now partnering […]
Coming soon, to a kitchen supper near you… The news reports of the unstoppable advance of digital currencies continue. Regular readers of this News site will not be surprised by the latest, as conveyed by our friends at Altfi: The demise of the bricks and mortar bank branch looks closer than ever, as Revolut reports a 215 […]
The ever-changing banking sector is where it’s at, folks. As regular visitors to this News site will know, a banking licence is on the horizon for this particular alternative-finance niche lender – and this is all part of the phenomenon of the alternative sector morphing into the mainstream. Our friends at Altfi report a development […]
The California Gold Rush. The conventional wisdom is that the most reliable way to make money from the mad 19th Century scramble for gold in them there hills was to set up supplies for the prospectors. Yes, there was a chance of striking the mother lode, but thousands of prospectors all needed ropes, jeans, tents […]
Regular readers of this News site will know that we think this is the era of the token – the corporate token launch, the new rogue crypto, the “us too” digital offerings of the central banks. Just as money is “the concretisation of trust” (our phrase), so tokens of any sort depend for their success […]
The story of alternative finance is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a story of continuous parallel development. The alternative world develops and influences the mainstream. The genesis of peer-to-peer (P2P) finance was born of the need for alternative funding (and for lenders, yield source) not to be found in the mainstream. P2P loans of course are very different […]
Following on from yesterday’s News story, we’ll know when cryptocurrencies have truly arrived once we cannot get away from them. As good a measure of common availability is their increasing accessibility in the hight street, via ATMs. Our friends at the Fintech Times report a follow-up ale to yesterday’s news. Cryptocurrencies’ rising popularity has seen […]
Do you know anyone who gets paid in Bitcoin, or buys train tickets from an automated kiosk using cryptocurrencies? If you do, the person getting paid is probably based in Japan (where Partial salary payment in Bitcoin has been an option for years). And digital-currency train ticket purchase has been a feature on Swiss train […]