Facebook & the Libra Effect: The New Importance of Privacy in Online Marketplaces
Members of the Libra Association, a group of 28 companies and not-for-profit groups including and brought together by Facebook may soon have the power to...
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London Fintech Week: Libra, Regulation and the Key to Start-Up Success
By Charley Brooke Barnett (with contributions from Matthew Dove) London Fintech Week, back for the 6th year in a row, gathered together its usual line-up...
Is Trump’s Twitter Account Tanking the Quant Market?
By Matthew Dove The emergence of quant trading seemed a perfect demonstration of technical innovation yielding concrete results under market conditions. For almost a decade,...
A Whiff of Grapeshot: Is Facebook Coin About to Kill the Nation State?
His platforms are daily fixtures in the lives of billions globally and now Mark Zuckerberg is adding a cryptocurrency to his arsenal. Could Libra be the stablecoin...
Facebook Wants to Take on Banks, Not Bitcoin
By George McDonaugh, CEO and Co-Founder of KR1 plc Facebook is creating its own cryptocurrency something that even those of us necking the crypto cool...
Look Back to Move Forward: Tribal Banking in the Digital Age
A renaissance in banking is occurring before our very eyes. Technological advances that delight us have intersected with an increased consumer demand for transparency and...
Facebook FTC Fine Could Cost Up To $5 Billion
Facebook is bracing itself for a colossal fine of up to $5 billion by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), according to its earnings report...
Monzo: The Rise and Rise of the Coolest Challenger in the Class
By Katy Bloomfield, Comms Director, TopLine Comms Monzo, a digital bank popular with millennials, is the fintech success story that many start-ups dream of. It launched...
Barclays Likes This: Legacy Giant Takes a Leaf Out of the Facebook
Written by Matthew Dove (Digital Editor) With the line between finance and tech becoming increasingly blurred, it’s no surprise that Fintech Connect at the Docklands’...
Facebook Whistleblower Christopher Wylie Named the Most Influential Person in Tech
Christopher Wylie, the data scientist who blew the whistle on Facebook’s giant Cambridge Analytica data breach, has been named as the most influential person in...
