Chris Skinner

MARCH 7, 2018

I recently wrote an article for Bloomberg’s Business Week, and thought it worth sharing with y’all here: What’s next for blockchain? Everyone got very excited a few years ago about blockchain technologies, the ledger system that was spawned by the arrival of bitcoin in 2009. appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 28, 2016

First, there’s probably the best insight I’ve read into why we voted to Leave in The Guardian: “If you’ve got money, you vote … The post The best #Brexit insights including #Fintech, #Blockchain and more appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

I wrote a blog the other day for The Next Web. Apparently, people like it and here I’m going to expand upon the basic theme to give a detailed analysis of how FinTech wings are spreading. There’s been a lot of talk about fintech lately. In fact, saying ‘fintech’ is like saying ‘retailer.’

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I just read an interesting new report from Deloitte about blockchain. They tracked the history of 86,034 blockchain projects hosted on GitHub since 2009 to pull out “key lessons” on where the blockchain industry is going and its long-term prospects.

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 30, 2016

I recently opened an investment fund for blockchain start-ups in partnership with Life.SREDA, who produce a report on the state of FinTech twice a year.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Following my previous blog about Big Data Analytics and Cyber-Security, this second post in my series on payments highlights banks and FinTech hubs as well as blockchain and cryptocurrencies that continue as important priorities for banks. Banks & FinTech Hubs Strong growth. Read more.

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

You and I probably think it’s just that once a year renewal … The post InsurTech’s big ticket items: machine learning on the blockchain appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. There are lots of interesting nuances in insurance.

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I just saw a report from the World Economic Forum, who estimate that over $1 trillion in new trade will be created through blockchain-based distributed ledger technologies (DLT) over the next decade. trillion will be generated by blockchain trade appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. Bold claims.

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 4, 2017

Some people talk about FinTech disruption and how payments and banking is being attacked and unbundled by start-ups, but we often look at banking too simplistically.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 26, 2018

I was honoured to accept to be the moderator of the afternoon and guess I was chosen because Alipay and Ant Financial are a … The post Ant Financial’s Strategy for AI, Blockchain, Cybersecurity and more appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Earlier this year, I summarised some of the best research papers that had been released on FinTech and Blockchain in three parts: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Thanks to Oliver Bussmann’s blog, I can now provide you with a list of the best research released on Fintech this year.

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Innovate Finance has been working with the Department of International Trade (DIT) on a report on blockchain and the future of financial services. The report was developed with the help of the Economist Intelligence Unit and is now available here.

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Chris Skinner

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

I still talk a lot about blockchain, distributed ledgers, cryptocurrencies and more, but often feel it’s falling on deaf ears.

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 30, 2019

Bearing in mind that the big American banks are all spending $10 billion plus each on technology, they should be updating, and CB Insights latest installment looks … The post Where Top US Banks Are Betting On Fintech appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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JULY 4, 2016

Friend of the Financial Services Club and journalist with Financial News Anna Irrera has recently started producing a weekly roundup of FinTech news. She’s kindly agreed to let me republish this summary here on The Finanser, so here goes: Once upon a time it was all blockchain!blockchain!blockchain!…Now blockchain!blockchain!…Now

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 25, 2019

It is that time of year when we do an annual review of the blogs our readers viewed the most on our Insights on Banking blog. Looking at the top five blog entries of 2018, we see that using technology to meet the ever-increasing scale and rate of regulatory change is top of mind for financial service organizations.

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Chris Skinner

JANUARY 18, 2017

The reason for mentioning it is that we keep hearing these numbers around how many billions are being invested in FinTech, bitcoin, blockchain and such like, and yet I cannot see … The post FiBD: The FinTech B t Detector appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Lots of people saying that blockchain is past its sell-by date, R3 are bust and distributed ledgers are dead.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

As mentioned in the first part of these two pieces, we talk a lot about FinTech. I don’t intend to define the whole market for each of these, but purely to place a dialogue around where they fit in the FinTech scene at a high level. So, here is the FinTech Wave, Part Two.

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Chris Skinner

JANUARY 30, 2018

I was recently recorded on Roger Edwards’ podcast talking about FinTech, cryptocurrency and corporate change. You can checkout his website here, and here’s the low-down of our chat: On the show this week, I … The post FinTech, cryptocurrency and corporate change appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

It may seem that cross-border payments were in the … well … crosshairs this past week, with a number of country-by-country and company-by-company initiatives using blockchain and other methods to speed payments and lower fees. That comes as SWIFT is working with R3’s blockchain platform, Corda.

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As we wrap up an unpredictable and sometimes tumultuous year in both the fintech industry and the world, we’re looking back at the last 12 months of IBM FinTech blogs to pick out some of the more popular and insightful posts of 2017. Banking on blockchain for increased trust”.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 11, 2016

That cheap shared ledger is most likely going to be built in Africa. … The post Africa’s blockchain transformation appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. A core part of this is focused upon building a cheap shared ledger structure for digital identity and digital currencies and guess what?

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 15, 2016

Friend of the Financial Services Club and journalist with Financial News Anna Irrera has recently started producing a weekly roundup of FinTech news.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

London challenger bank Revolut has rolled out four new cryptocurrencies — EOS, OMG Network, Tezos and 0x — for users in the Europe Economic Area (EEA), the company said in a blog post on Thursday (Dec. Blockchain-based EOS enables the development, hosting and execution of decentralized applications (dApps).

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Chris Skinner

MAY 21, 2019

Things we’re reading today include … FinTech Expert Chris Skinner Reveals Keys to Becoming a True Digital Bank Americans Don’t Want A ‘Digital’ Bank Kard is a challenger bank for teens Even the banking giants will have to embrace crypto and blockchain Tesco Bank to pull out of mortgage market … The post Things worth (..)

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MAY 19, 2019

April 2019) This is because they are getting serious about payments and blockchain, after a variety of reports that they … The post If Facebook launch a cryptocurrency, will US government shut it down? appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. (March 2019) Will a global platform connect all of our money?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Young B2B FinTechs secured some of their first investments in areas that include small business accounting, alternative lending and financial management. Volopay is building out its FinTech platform designed to streamline financial control for businesses.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

The cryptocurrency exchange found “repeated deep reorganizations” of the digital currency’s blockchain. To keep its customers’ funds safe, the company said in a blog post that it “immediately paused interactions with the ETC blockchain.”.

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Chris Skinner

JANUARY 9, 2019

There has been a lot of thinking and rethinking during 2018 about blockchain, cryptocurrencies, bitcoin and everything digital currency related. I wrote about the challenges getting blockchains implemented for example, and was surprised to find myself enduing up as a network meme. The power of the pundit, ay?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Spending on blockchain technologies will ramp up to $9.2 Its latest Worldwide Semiannual Blockchain Spending Guide also calculated a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of blockchain spend of 81.2 2018 will be a crucial stage for enterprises as they make a huge leap from proof-of-concept projects to full blockchain deployments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

.” Oliver was discussing cryptocurrencies and blockchain on his show, highlighting the massive potential the world of FinTech has touted for the last year or so. This balance of optimism and realism is taking over the blockchain space as of late. But the segment also warned to temper the hype with healthy skepticism.

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The report is focused upon how blockchain is changing the financial services markets around the world, with the aim of establishing the position of major financial institutions with regards to cryptocurrencies and the use of blockchain … The post A third of banks expect to hold cryptocurrencies on their balance sheets appeared first on Chris (..)

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

London challenger bank Revolut has rolled out four new crypto tokens — EOS, OMG Network, Tezos and 0x — for users in the Europe Economic Area (EEA), the company said in a blog post on Thursday (Dec. Blockchain-based EOS enables the development, hosting and execution of decentralized applications (dApps).

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 11, 2018

Things we’re reading today include … Indian billionaire ‘on the run over a alleged bank fraud’ seeks asylum in Britain Bank of Chile trading down after hackers rob millions in cyberattack Blockchain Cannot Yet Support Financial Market Infrastructure Fintech threatens to eclipse banks that do not adapt digitally HSBC’s (..)

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

FinTech Cashaa in collaboration with India’s United Multistate Credit Cooperative Society. Crypto trading platform INX is moving ahead with its acquisition of digital securities trading firm Openfinance , a company blog post states. The bank will expand to over 100 by next year, according to the report. UNICAS is a project of U.K.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 21, 2018

AI, AGI, ASI (Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Super Intelligence); machine learning and deep learning; blockchain, shared ledgers and distributed ledger technologies; cryptocurrencies, virtual currencies and digital currencies; Open Banking and Open APIs; and so on and … The post How quantum will change everything (..)

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