DeepSeek’s “Open Source” breakthrough from inside China
DeepSeek and Alibaba’s QN 2.5 have surpassed OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o and Meta’s Lama, shifting the AI landscape. This is not just...
Nigerian banks and fintechs need to focus on rebuilding the economy
First Bank Nigeria had invited me as keynote speaker at their Fintech 6.0 Summit in October last year, which the...
DeFi is setting the rules by which banking will be run shortly
In this wide-ranging keynote at the First Bank Nigeria's Fintech 6.0, I outlined how DeFi is setting new standards of...
Digital assets must be part of financial architecture
The proceedings of the third plenum of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee makes the future shape of...
Geopolitics and the global payment system
Right after SIBOS, as the SWIFT Interbank Operations Summit is called, was held in Beijing from 21-24 October, I posted...
Speed and digitalisation will transform financial products
In this discussion, I highlighted the transformation of traditional depositor-bank relationships. I believe that traditional banks are on the verge...
