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  • user 3:40 pm on October 16, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    A Pitch Perfect Illustration of Blockchain Hype 

    Craig Pirrong takes a hard look at the surrounding and finds that it isn’t necessarily justified.

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  • user 10:40 pm on October 15, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    New Frontiers in FinTech 

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    In the mid 19th century, California awoke to a massive influx of prospectors eagerly seeking their fortunes in gold. A few brave souls actually managed to unearth some real and sizable nuggets – nuggets that made the arduous trip worthwhile. Nuggets that would eventually change their lives forever.

    Then came oil, and states like Texas, Oklahoma and again, California became the new frontiers for claiming your stake in the new “black gold” economy of the early 20th century. Smart, hardworking and lucky (often a big factor) prospectors toiled for years in what must have looked like barren wastelands to them. Again, only a relative few of these “wildcatters” went on to become the successful oil barons that eventually shaped todays oil industry.

    Today, generations are waking up to the realization that we are living in an era of even greater potential for humankind. Artificial Intelligence, Massive Data Sets, Powerful Computing Resources and a host of other advances are providing the framework necessary to allow the Information Age to finally deliver on its promise for a significantly better world.

    In the process they are providing a world of opportunities for those “wildcatters” of the 21st century; we call them names like Entrepreneurs, Founders, Innovators and Technology Startups.

    But, as with the gold and oil explorers of yesteryear, todays explorers are no less vulnerable to risk and the potential misfortune that goes with it. Instead of “fools gold”, empty wells and the perils of the wild west, we have fierce competition, intellectual property rights, market acceptance and scalability, to name just a few of the obstacles to success. Yes, todays bit hits are called unicorns for a number of really good reasons.

    That said, we’d never have the growth and prosperity we have today if we never set foot on the promised land, the moon and more recently, Mars (hey, at least our robots are there today).

    So…. a prospecting we must go! If for no reason other than it is in our DNA and we simply can’t help ourselves. To that end, I’d like to tell you about our little “exploratory trip” next week in New York City. It’s an event my co-chair and I from the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City have been working on since June and it is called “New Frontiers in “.

    A brief excerpt from the description of the event reads:

    “Digital trends in the 21st century are rapidly reshaping how, where, and even why we invest. Disruptive innovation and the development of new tools and financial platforms are teaching the next generation all about investing, while allowing them to put their money where their hearts and minds already are.

    In this new investing paradigm, questions arise such as:

    • What are the best ways to attract the next generation of investors and encourage the existing ones?
    • How effectively are traditional and disruptive financial services leveraging today’s mobile, web and cloud technologies?
    • How can this reduce costs and improve the bottom line for investors, and financial institutions?”

    The event takes place on Tuesday next, October 18th from 5:30pm – 8:30pm at Anchin Block & Anchin LLP, 1375 Broadway 23rd Floor, NYC. We have well over a hundred technologists, investors, journalists, entrepreneurs and MIT alumni confirmed as attendees to date. You can find further details on the event on the MIT Enterprise Forum web site here.

    I wrote last week on how I learned to leverage the “Human Curated” concept the MIT Enterprise Forum provides to sift through the noise and daunting task of filtering out technology advances that are truly worthy of attention. I’ve only been a Board Member at the forum for a short while, but already it is proving to be the great “technology filter” I wrote about in my last post.

    If you can’t make this event, check out future events on Cybersecurity, , Virtual Reality and more on the events page here.

    What are your thoughts on this? Do you have tips and tools for helping manage the sheer volume of information finding its way to us in electronic form these days? I’d love to hear about it in the comments below.

    Daniel O’Sullivan is the CEO and Founder of Gyst, a company focused on developing software to allow technology to adapt to human behavior in real time.

     
  • user 3:35 pm on October 15, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Film: Fintech Made in Switzerland 

    Der Dokumentarfilm in besteht aus Interviews mit Startup- Unternehmern, Investoren, Banquiers und Politikern, die das Schweizer FinTech-Ökosystem mitgestalten. Fernab von Medienhype stellt der die Personen vor, die am Wandel des Finanzsektors mitarbeiten und regt zum konstruktiven Denken über den Finanzplatz
    Schweiz und dessen Zukunft an.

    Fintech Made in Switzerland

    Einen Kontrapunkt zu den Interviews setzen historische Banknoten und die Pilatus- Zahnradbahn in Luzern. Motive technischer und gesellschaftlicher Errungenschaften und Aufnahmen der Zahnradbahn, eine waghalsige Pionierleistung vor 125 Jahren, untermalen die Aussagen der Interviewpartner, die motiviert über ihre Erfahrungen und Zukunftspläne mit FinTech in der Schweiz berichten.

     

    Trailer

    Was ist FinTech?

    FinTech, kurz für “financial ”, ist eine rasch wachsende Wirtschaftssparte, die mit Technologie und Software die Effizienz von Finanzdienstleistungen verbessert. Innerhalb kurzer Zeit ist FinTech ein globales Milliardengeschäft ausserhalb des traditionellen Finanzsektors mit disruptivem Potenzial geworden. Die Schweiz hat allerdings erst seit wenigen Jahren eine FinTech-Szene. Andere Startup-Standorte, wie London, Berlin, oder New York, könnten dem traditionellen Bankenland den Rang ablaufen. Umsomehr ist in der Schweiz viel Engagement und Erfindergeist vorhanden, den Finanzplatz gemeinsam mit FinTechs und Banken erfolgreich ins digitale Zeitalter zu bringen.

     

    Fintech Made in Switzerland

     

    Teilnehmer/Interviewpartner

    Für diesen Film fanden über 40 Interviews mit FinTech-Pionieren in der Schweiz statt. Diese Interviews sind in voller Länge auf der Website des Films einsehbar (http://www.fintech-documentary.com/interviews). Aus Zeitgründen sind rund 15 Gespräche in der Endfassung des Films vertreten.

    Hintergrund

    Anfangs 2016 veröffentlichte Manuel Stagars mit Ioannis Akkizidis das Buch Marketplace Lending, Financial Analysis, and the Future of Credit (Wiley, 2016). Während der zweijährigen Manuskriptphase sprach Manuel mit zahlreichen FinTech-Unternehmern, Investoren, Banken, Marktbeobachtern, Entscheidungsträgern bei Zentralbanken und Autoritäten im Finanzsektor in Amerika, England und Singapur. Der Film FinTech Made in Switzerland ist somit auch eine Weiterführung dieser Gespräche.

    „Director’s Statement“

    „Im Jahr 1996 gründete ich meine erste Firma in der Schweiz und erlebte hautnah die Euphorie und die Katerstimmung des ersten Internetbooms und -crashs. FinTech Made in Switzerland soll ein Zeitdokument sein, das die Energie und Aufbruchstimmung des FinTech-Booms im Jahre 2016 festhält. Mein grösstes Anliegen ist es, die Menschen zu portraitieren, die mit viel Herzblut den Finanzplatz weiterbringen möchten.

    Innovationen kämpfen immer auch mit Bewärtem und fordern die Veränderung bestehender Strukturen. Auf dem Schweizer Finanzplatz ist dieses Spannungsfeld ausgeprägter als in anderen Ländern. Es wird faszinierend sein, in zwei bis drei Jahren auf den Film als Momentaufnahme zurückzublicken.“

     

    Notizen zur Produktion

    -Die Dreharbeiten fanden zwischen Mai und Oktober 2016 in Zürich, Bern, Basel, Zug, Baar, Glarus und Luzern statt.

    -Als Interviewsprache wirkte die Muttersprache der Interviewpartner—in vielen Fällen Schweizerdeutsch—am natürlichsten.

    -Tech specs des Films: 1080p, 23.97fps.

    -Der Film ist selbstfinanziert und der Filmemacher hat alle Aufgaben der Regie, Produktion und Postproduktion selbst übernommen.

    Fintech Made in Switzerland

    Poster des Films

     

     

    Biographie des Filmemachers

    Fintech Made in Switzerland

    Manuel Stagars ist in Zürich aufgewachsen. Er ist Filmemacher, Autor, Musiker, Ökonom und Unternehmer mit über 15 Jahren Erfahrung in Startup-Gründung und Beratung in der Schweiz, Amerika, Japan und Singapur. Manuel hat an der London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) studiert. Er ist zertifizierter Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), und Energy Risk Professional (ERP) und hat Bücher und wissenschaftliche Arbeiten über Startups, Crowdlending, Impact Investing, Datenqualität und Open Data publiziert.

    Seinen ersten Film produzierte Manuel im Jahre 2005 über japanische Anime-Filme („Hello Anime“, 2005). Im Projekt FinTech Made in Switzerland kombiniert Manuel seine Erfahrung in Filmproduktion, Finanzwirtschaft und Unternehmertum.

    The post Film: Fintech Made in Switzerland appeared first on Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News – FintechNewsCH.

    Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News – FintechNewsCH

     
  • user 12:18 am on October 15, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Breaking Banks: Where Finance, Technology, & Politics Meet [AUDIO] 

    On this week&;s episode of , host Brett King is joined by four panelists from the world to discuss the intersection of government oversight, , and . The five weigh in on these issues, especially in regard to regulation, and what can be done to solve the problems ofRead More
    Bank Innovation

     
  • user 6:40 am on October 14, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Polish Parliament Holds Public Consultation on Cryptocurrency 

    The has held the country’s first meeting devoted solely to digital currency and issues.

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  • user 3:40 am on October 14, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Ripple CEO Calls for Next President to Appoint FinTech Advisor 

    CEO Chris Larson argues the US should a ‘ to look into .

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  • user 3:40 am on October 14, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Ripple CEO Calls for Next President to Appoint FinTech Advisor 

    CEO Chris Larson argues the US should a ‘ to look into .

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  • user 12:40 am on October 14, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Could Bitcoin Be the Future of Blockchain Post Trade? 

    Conventional thinking about ‘s use in stock markets may be wrong, according to one academic.

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  • user 12:18 am on October 14, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Skry, Terbium Labs Team Up to Fight Blockchain Fraud 

    As we know, two of the most prized traits of , specifically when one is talking about the blockchain, are its anonymity and its immutability. Unfortunately, those traits also lead to a fair amount of ; which is why , a “dark web intelligence provider,” has teamedRead More
    Bank Innovation

     
  • user 9:40 pm on October 13, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Blockchain Could Reshape Finance Admin, UK Risk Assessors Say 

    A assessment agency within the UK government recently published comments on .

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