Dave’s latest thoughts on the Metaverse are available to watch here: The metaverse is interesting because it is a real economy: that is, unlike North Korea or EVE Online, it has private property that can be owned by economic avatars. That’s undeniably interesting. Image by Helen Holmes.
“Dave Birch really is a wealth of knowledge and insight. We learned a lot from this episode” – Lovely feedback from the 3S.money team after a recent podcast Dave recorded: This conversation with Dave invites us to really consider the future of money, with AI and bots assembling financial transactions Read more…
Dave was invited to Parliament to give evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs committee on the subject of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), along with Stephen Bonner, Executive Director, Regulatory Futures and Innovation at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Andrew Cregan, Head of Finance Policy, British Retail Consortium Read more…
Banking Circle hosted a special SIBOS episode of their Knowledge Circle this week and invited Dave along to moderate the conversation between Jon Levine – Co-Head of Institutional Banking (Banking Circle), Colin Digby – Head of Strategic Client Coverage Group (Crown Agents Bank) and Martin Fiddaman – Founder & Managing Read more…
Smart contracts are tipped to transform the future of agreements between individuals, businesses, and governments in fintech.In recent years, their use has rapidly increased as parties attempt to reduce costs, improve security, and even replace lawyers. There’s just one small hitch: smart contracts may not actually be smart nor contracts. 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:
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!
“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