It’s been two years since I started my first post on dailyfintech.com with, “Hardly anyone would argue that change and innovation are not necessary in insurance. The $5 trillion global insurance industry is large, complex and capital intensive. With various relatively untapped market segments and under-penetrated world regions, the onset of PE/VC investments did herald […]
Here are the most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1 EBA announces 2023 plans, including data access The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its work programme for 2023. The plans include a focus on placing data at the service of stakeholders. The […]
Netscape released cookies technology 28 years ago on October 13, 1994. This spawned a vast industry that some call surveillance advertising (more politely referred to as targeted advertising or behavioural marketing) that powers the Internet that we use every day. The blowback from 28 years of cookies advertising technology will start with 3rd party cookies […]
Here is our pick of the 3 most important stablecoin stories during the week. CBDC’s, Hacks and Wrappers!! This week was busy in a number of areas as Innovators keep pushing the envelope and have various slip ups as sloppy code or design are exposed. First on the CBDC front, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) […]
Fast forward to 2140, when all 21 million bitcoins are in circulation, what will happen to the network? Will miners continue to secure the network when the reward goes away? The Bitcoin network was created around the principle of controlled supply —only a specific number of Bitcoins are minted each year until the total number […]
I would come back from selling custom software solutions in the City Of London in the 1980s understanding very little. Most customers were not as kind as the man who explained the Gilts market to me. They would rattle on about some new derivative and expect me to understand. Eventually I did understand, but only thanks […]
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Fast forward to 2140, when all 21 bitcoins are in circulation, what will happen to the network? Will miners continue to secure the network when the reward goes away? The Bitcoin network was created around the principle of controlled supply —only a specific number of Bitcoins are minted each year until the total number of […]
Here is our pick of the 3 most important stablecoin stories during the week. Are Crypto and Stablecoins used primarily for bad things? We keep hearing how everything Crypto is all just bad. Bad for Climate, Money Laundring, Drugs, Pornography, its a long list. Well this week I just happened to go down the Russia rabbit […]
Workers’ compensation (WC) claims can significantly dent a business’s productivity and margins. Out-of-work employees coerce company leaders to manage with inadequate workforces while training replacement staff and augmenting employee safety. The average cost for a WC claim is $41,003. A leading WC risk is ergonomics-based incidents, including manual material handling and repetitive upper extremity movements […]