Videos
AI and immortality in the year of the snake
In this playful speech given at an awards dinner in Tokyo, Japan in March 2025, I started by wanting to...
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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...
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The future of financial centers
I was invited to give the opening keynote at Finance Malta’s Annual Conference 2024. I emphasized the need for financial...
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What will we be worrying about 10 years from now?
I gave this dinner speech at a time when Chinese bankers were worried about the severe property market fallout in...
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How Piyush Gupta reimagined banking from Singapore to the world
This was more than a ceremony. It was a moment to reflect. At the 2025 TAB Global Leadership Achievement Awards,...
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The personalisation of finance – and why banks are struggling to keep up
I joined The Road to Growth podcast with Vinnie Enriquez to discuss the future of banking, crypto, and the real...
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Why BRICS finds it difficult to organise a common currency
What makes the US dollar so powerful — and why does it remain at the heart of the global financial...
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If African startups struggle with exits, how do they find their valuations?
I recently sat down with two entrepreneurs from opposite ends of Africa — Anthony Munyi in Kenya and Akwete “AK”...
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Postcard from the Antarctic
Even as visiting the Antarctic is becoming commonplace today, I think of it as a very special place on our...
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Postcard from El Salvador, Bitcoin’s first nation
Highlights of my first trip to El Salvador to capture the early days of the Bitcoin economy. What’s real, what’s...
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How Ricky Thomson and his friends created SafeBoda
Ricky Rapa Thomson, a co-founder of Uganda’s first ride-hailing app SafeBoda, told me just how he and his friends digitized...
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The network effect of the Hong Kong protests
I had two views of China on its national day this year. I spent the morning of 1 October 2019...
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