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New Year, new ideas
January 26, 2024Bold new concepts at Davos serve as inspiration for the year ahead
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Can fintech fulfil its promise if we are still asking if it will last?
January 24, 2024The Future of Global Fintech report, launched at Davos, is optimistic. The laurels are far from being rested on yet.
How NFTs, Mercedes-Benz and the Post Office got me thinking about failure
January 17, 2024You can write about technology until the cows come home — it always comes back to culture.
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Zing! Market reach is yours
January 10, 2024For consumer fintech, market domination is a different mountain to climb.
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In 2024, banks (and Barbie) continue to embrace change
January 3, 2024Change isn’t always easy, but it is almost always worth it. Here’s to a new year and a forward-looking vision for The Banker in 2024.
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Building an inclusive national payment infrastructure
December 15, 2023While southern Africa’s payments infrastructure has been in development for more than five decades, there has been limited progress in terms of financial inclusion, according to a recent report.
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I predict nothing! (But wishing is OK)
December 13, 2023Strategy is about working hard all the time, not writing lists for LinkedIn.
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Celebrating the bankers of the future
December 8, 2023At an event in London, the Chartered Banker Institute announced the winner of the Young Banker of the Year 2023 award, with submissions focused on ideas to improve outcomes for customers, colleagues and communities.
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Antidisestablishmentarianism in crypto
December 6, 2023When the anti-establishment becomes established, did it even exist at all?