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I invented transactional e-commerce in 1994 through WorldPay and ever since I have been passionate about business change, market transformation and driving innovation.

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The announcement this am that the UK Government is supporting tech startups with up to £1.2Billion is great news, and as I predicted last week, matches the existing approach used by the BCR, the Banking Competition Remedies Scheme. That scheme albeit still in its early days is showing real results amongst its fintech participants. This scheme ann...

20 April 2020 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

How do Fintech entrepreneurs get help?

One interesting option is through the SETsquared Entrepreneur Programme for Tech Start-ups which has its next 2-day programme in Guildford - 1st and 2nd February 2018. SETsquared is the world's largest university based business incubator and has supported over 1,000 hi-tech start-ups to develop and raise more than £1.25bn of investment This progr

08 January 2018 Fintech innovation and startups

Negative Interest Rates - UK banks introduce plans to charge their customers

Who could have predicted that in 2016, following the disasters of 2007-9 that the main banks in the UK would be planning for negative interest charges against their business customers. Never, absurd, I hear the cries of common sense but sadly true as many business customers are finding out today in their post. I quote "The interest rate we ...

04 February 2016

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Major US banks consider joint stablecoin venture

www.Sincerio.com perhaps ??

23 May 2025 16:10 Read comment

Church of England completes national roll-out of contactless giving devices

Tap and Pray, perhaps :-)

12 Sep 2024 12:56 Read comment

BIS chief calls on countries to modernise legal frameworks to support CBDCs

Augustin is spot on with his request. I have argued for a number of years that to improve Global Financial Stability needs a coordinated plan against a new model, not a domestic rehash of what we already have. Through coordinated regulatory action using modern and robust global infrastructure, that incidentally is already built, the global movement of money between commercial and central banks can be streamlined. The result would significantly improve every economy on the planet and, in my mind a very worthy prize.

27 Sep 2023 11:32 Read comment

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