Dave was invited to speak at last week’s Maui Waui Festival in Norfolk! He gave a talk on the Jeremiah Marques Stage about the Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency World. Maui Waui is a 3 day international festival of music, performance and arts. Now in it 8th year it is fast becoming Read more…
Dave recently recorded a quick ‘Pearl of Wisdom’ for his friends over at Banking Circle about the importance of formulating a digital currency strategy…watch the video here:
Dave was recently nominated in the top 10 of this illustrious annual guide for the second year running! The Fintech Power 50 is a guide to the most influential, innovative and powerful figures in the Fintech industry. It acts as a much-needed reminder of all the great things being achieved in Read more…
This week, Dave was asked by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (for whom he is a member of the Governing Council) to deliver a quick explainer video on Stablecoins. As CSFI director, Andrew Hilton, explains “there are about $117 billion of various sorts of so-called stablecoin out Read more…
Dave has delivered keynotes across the globe to all manner of audiences, here is a selection of some those presentations as they happened!
Yesterday, Dave gave a talk at the Institute of International Monetary Research’s New Means of Payment Seminar on the drivers for digital currency and the implications for global payment systems. You can catch up on the video here – Dave’s session starts at 1 hour. In the meantime, below is Read more…
“People say identity means all sorts of different things,” Birch says. “But I have quite a structured model, which I’ve found is useful for facilitating conversations in business. So I tend to think of it in three related domains: identification, authentication and authorization.” Read more and listen to the podcast here
Dave was chatting with Simon Paris, the CEO of Finastra, at the Paris Fintech Forum last week and he made him reflect on the split between the manufacturing and distribution of financial services and the push for BaaS and Dave went on to write a blogpost about it here…
When I’m working on strategy with financial organisations, I often find the Bodie and Crane classification (Harvard Business Review, 1996) a useful basis. This gives me a model that sees banks as a bundle of six basic functions: three core transfer functions and three interaction functions. The core functions are transfers in time (credit Read more…
Dave had a great session with folks over at Payments NZ this week, the topic of session was ‘Who’s shaping the future of payments?’. Last year was transformational for the payments landscape as payment channels evolved to meet customer demand and companies responded to changing market conditions. In this first Read more…