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Fintech and Hollywood: a perfect match - Chris Skinner's blog We just had the annual Oscar jamboree and congratulations to Anora for its five Oscars, and particular respect to Sean Baker who picked up four personally, something that’s never been achieved before....

We at Stelarator do love a good thought piece about Fintech and the Media Industry thefinanser.com/2025/03/fint... Thanks to @chrisskinner.bsky.social for the excellent read #Filmfinance #fintech #AI

04.03.2025 12:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The vast array of modern tech systems needed to operate in the banking world today mean firms have β€œsuch a smorgasbord of things they have to work with”, the β€œcompetence of keeping up with these changes is really challenging every bank”.

Chris Skinner

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01.03.2025 06:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Love and Money: Surprising Insights into Modern Romance The leading money movement app unveils data surrounding user dating behaviors and enlists an etiquette expert to offer tips for how to navigate the world of dating and money.

32% of Venmo's GenZ users have been on a bad date and then received a Venmo request to pay the bill (compared to 22% of Millennials)

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14.02.2025 05:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I invested in $Melania anyway

03.02.2025 07:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not in my view. Stick to XRP ...

01.02.2025 09:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

All the smart, savvy bankers and CEOs who think they're just getting deregulation with a side of racism do not understand they will also be taken for a ride, as Trump & Musk treat the entire federal government like a mob protection racket, freely skimming anywhere they like.

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The Zone of Interest (2023) ⭐ 7.3 | Drama, History, War 1h 45m | PG-13

Today's must watch (if you haven't already) www.imdb.com/title/tt7160...

27.01.2025 13:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Interview with best-selling author, Chris Skinner
Interview with best-selling author, Chris Skinner YouTube video by Henri Arslanian

I recently had a lovely chat with Henri Arslanian for #CNBC about #Crypto and banking. Here's the short (7 minute) segment ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ysv...

17.01.2025 13:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
TikTok Shutdown Looms and Israel - Hamas Ceasefire Agreement Reached | The Daily Show
TikTok Shutdown Looms and Israel - Hamas Ceasefire Agreement Reached | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

Banning TikTok in the US might be backfiring as over 500k users have flocked to Chinese app, RedNote in protest! 😜

At least on TikTok US, user data was stored in the cloud and managed by Oracle in Austin, Texas. User data on RedNote is stored and managed in China.

youtu.be/2TmDoSmYGwc?...

16.01.2025 03:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk to buy TikTok USA, integrate it with X, allow any opinions and pay with dogecoins?

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...

14.01.2025 08:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Women in FinTech Powerlist 2024 Criteria - Innovate Finance – The Voice of Global FinTech Celebrate the achievements of women in FinTech with our annual powerlist

#InnovateFinance Women in Fintech Powerlist 2025 entries close today ... are you on the list?

www.innovatefinance.com/womeninfinte...

13.01.2025 09:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm impressed by this new young actor playing Bob Dylan in his new biopic movie

11.01.2025 20:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires.

10.12.2024 19:39 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Got an interesting stat about #Alipay+ today. Alipay is now working with 35 leading mobile payment partners connecting over 90 million merchants in 66 markets to 1.6 billion users ... onwards and upwards

07.12.2024 15:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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"I'm alone in a dark tunnel where spent nuclear fuel will decay for millennia. I'm standing at a spot where, starting from 2025, no human should set foot for 100,000 years."

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07.12.2024 08:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Build a Digital Human Blueprint by NVIDIA | NVIDIA NIM Create intelligent, interactive avatars for customer service across industries

#NVIDIA have released a way to build a digital human

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I wonder if they read my book on this?

www.amazon.com/Digital-Huma...

05.12.2024 09:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is it debanking or derisking? - Chris Skinner's blog I wrote in April about debanking my bank before they debanked me, which is a theme regularly popping up in UK media. The debanking process is where, without notice, a bank decides that your account is...

Is it debanking or derisking?

thefinanser.com/2024/12/is-i...

05.12.2024 06:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It's been a pretty amazing week, launching "Intelligent Money" and "Digital for Good" translations in the Middle East. Fantastic people, fantastic crowd and fantastic queues to get my terrible signature on a piece of paper.

www.moneythinks4u.com

29.11.2024 09:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk’s xAI goes after OpenAI β€” The Economist The fight is turning nasty

Sam and Elon are in a war over AI

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27.11.2024 21:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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27.11.2024 12:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey! You! Get onto my cloud ... - Chris Skinner's blog Fifteen years ago, I did a major survey into the use of cloud computing in financial services. Bear in mind this was really early days, and the results were quite nebulous. The main headline was that ...

Hey! You! Get onto my cloud

thefinanser.com/2024/11/hey-...

18.11.2024 06:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk is not America’s new king. But he might be its new Thomas Cromwell

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17.11.2024 10:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Well worth a watch

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16.11.2024 13:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#TheGuardian quits X

13.11.2024 15:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fintech Execs, Bankers and Crypto Bros Brace for New Rules Welcome to Singapore Edition. Each week we bring you insights into one of Asia’s most dynamic economies. If you haven’t yet, please sign up here.

Trump's US election victory was music to the ears of some attendees at Singapore's FinTech Festival. But others feared the economic cost of his win.

Read more in this week's free Singapore Edition newsletter.

09.11.2024 02:31 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brazilian fintech Tako emerges from stealth with sizable seed round led by a16z and Ribbit Capital Running payroll is hard in any country, but perhaps especially so in Brazil thanks to consistently changing laws and extremely influential unions that make it significantly harder to get it right. Fernando Gadotti struggled with this as the co-founder and…

Brazilian fintech Tako emerges from stealth with sizable seed round led by a16z and Ribbit Capital

11.11.2024 10:03 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0