A few weeks ago, The Disruptive Group organised a Fintech bootcamp for finance professionals. One of the very experienced speakers advised the audience to start their education in Fintech by reading 10 very important books, but he didn’t mention which ones! So I thought I’d get the views from the readers of Disruptive Finance, and list the(…)
Under popular demand, I’ve started to re-update the London Fintech calendar… As you can see from the list below, there is an incredible number of Fintech events in London, with 14 events listed just for this week. From Africa to Blockchain, from testimonials of Fintech CEOs to Femtech, the London ecosystem is more active than ever… Nicolas Tonnard(…)
In news more suited to the likes of Amazon, JP Morgan is set to look at customers’ spending histories in order to sell them future products or services.
80 days to learn Fintech – that’s our challenge! This crazy challenge started 2 months ago ago, when I met Nicolas Tonnard who had replied to my ad about hiring interns for The Disruptive Group. Since then, Nicolas joined TDG, and I’ve been very impressed by his entrepreneurship skills and enthusiasm, but also curiosity. One day, he asked(…)
If you’re looking for some Fintech reading, here are the 7 most popular articles (by page views) of 2016 on Disruptive Finance. I also added an 8th article (Fintech in 2016: why you need a different strategy), which was not even in the top 20, but was one of my favourite pieces. If you want to receive(…)
2016 has clearly been a year of changes in the world – and for me too, the year ended very differently than it started. For readers of Disruptive Finance, you might not have seen much difference, because the blog and my Fintech activities have always been my “night job”. But I also had a “day(…)
The Disruptive Group is looking for a web marketing intern! The Disruptive Group builds businesses in Fintech and leverages technology to help build better financial services for the 21st century. …
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,” (1984, George Orwell) The article below was published in Info, the monthly magazine of the French Chamber of Great Britain. The November issue was “Disrupt or be Disrupted” and coincided with the Disrupt or be Disrupted Conference held in London. _________________________________(…)
It may look like shoplifting, but it’s actually Amazon’s latest real-world shopping experiment.
I attended the Singapore Fintech Festival last week, and despite its name, it is not really about Fintech, but about the future of Singapore as a financial centre. I first heard about the Singapore Fintech Festival when Sopnendu Mohanty, the flamboyant head of Fintech at MAS, and his team, presented at Oxford Said Business School 6 months ago.(…)
