1+ hour, 28+ min ago   (638+ words) Shaping the future of finance There was a headline the other day that really annoyed me: Major Banks Are Racing to Appoint Chief AI Officers It annoyed me because it reveals something much deeper about how banks think. Whenever something…...

22+ hour, 33+ min ago   (275+ words) Shaping the future of finance This week’s main blog discussions include … The true cost of AI (Part One) There is a rather awkward conversation beginning in boardrooms about artificial intelligence. For the last few years, the question has been what…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (742+ words) Shaping the future of finance There is a rather awkward conversation beginning in boardrooms about artificial intelligence. For the last few years, the question has been what AI can do, how quickly companies can deploy it and how many people…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (408+ words) Shaping the future of finance Over the past year, I’ve been doing something slightly different. I’ve been writing fiction. Not just fiction, but Pulp Finction. The idea behind Pulp Finction is simple: Fun. Fact. Finance. Fiction. So, I thought: why…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1593+ words) Shaping the future of finance For years, I have argued with executives at banks about digital transformation and technical debt, so I finally decided to write down why and the whole issue really boils down to leadership and laggardship. Here…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (309+ words) Shaping the future of finance This week’s main blog discussions include … The SWOT of AI in banking I was sitting this morning and thinking about how fantastic Agentic AI, autonomous commerce and programmable money is. It is the focus of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1616+ words) Shaping the future of finance I was sitting this morning and thinking about how fantastic Agentic AI, autonomous commerce and programmable money is. It is the focus of my next Pulp Finction book Birth of a Unicorn being released in…...

2+ week, 51+ min ago   (1246+ words) Shaping the future of finance There was a time when Donald Trump was not particularly keen on cryptocurrencies. In 2019, he declared that he was “not a fan” of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, arguing that they were highly volatile, based on…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (908+ words) Shaping the future of finance Ten years ago, I wrote a series of blogs called The Origins of Moneykind. They accompanied the launch of Digital Human and explored a simple question: where does money come from? Looking back a decade…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1015+ words) Shaping the future of finance Over a cup of tea this morning, looking out into the garden, something struck me. Animals scale through evolution. Money is the operating system of institutions. It wasn't a thought I'd expected to have over…...