Beste Frontier Tech Radio podcasts (2024)

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S4 Ep. 4 - A Commissioner for Digital Money, A New Institution: Digital Pound Interview with Danny Kruger MP of Parliament's Treasury Select Committee 32:01

1+ y ago32:01

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At the close of the Bank of England's consultation on the Digital Pound Barry interviews Danny Kruger MP, of the UK Parliament's Treasury Select Committee, who oversee the project, discussed the deep implications of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on financial stability and liberty. While Danny expressed concerns about the potential negativ…

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S4 Ep. 3 - Interview with Jasmine Birtles on d£ and CBDCs 34:28

1+ y ago34:28

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Summary Jasmine and Barry discussed the Bank of England's consultation on creating a digital pound. Jasmine expressed her concerns about central bank digital currencies, stating that they allow for too much control and monitoring by the government. Barry and Jasmine discussed the differences between cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currenc…

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S4 Ep. 2 - Central Banks, CBDCs and the rise and rise of DeFi 47:31

3+ y ago47:31

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Barry talks to David Palmer, Blockchain Lead at Vodaphone and Jamiel Sheikh, Founder & CEO of Chainhaus - a leading advisory, education, events and app studio about the rapid rise of DeFi and the advent of 'Central Bank Digital Currencies' in the week that the Bank of England announced its digital Pound project - closely following the digital Euro.…

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S4 Ep. 1 - DeFi and 3D Democracy - The future landscape 45:23

3+ y ago45:23

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In this fascinating conversation with David Palmer, a visionary, who is also the blockchain lead for Vodafone, we range widely across digital transformation, including the fact that we're all increasingly cyborgs living in a digital, as well as physical environment. The potential to increase human joy and human creativity through digital transforma…

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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 6 - Fintech Tackling the Poverty Trap with Fairer Finance Hackathon Winners Finexos 30:25

4y ago30:25

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So, today we interview. Finexos, the winners of the fair finance hackathon about their solution to the mountain of stress and distress already at a peak before the pandemic and the mental health crisis it is driving. And what can be done. President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Dr Adrian James has predicted: "there is going to be a big surg…

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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 5 - Why There’s Still No End to Increasing Poverty & ‘Runaway Inequality’ and What We Can Do About it 1:00:37

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What has gone wrong with capitalism? It seems it has taken a wrong turn. But how? Staring at the scenes of the redundant workers leaving Lehman Brothers in 2008 – followed by all the subsequent carnage - started, for me, a decade of thinking and research and that's yet to complete -seeking Humane Economics. Like millions of other people I knew then…

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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 4 - From Patients to Occupants: Turning the Health Service on Its Head 46:09

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In this episode we will be talking to another big-thinker: Andy Wilkins, founder of Vision4Health about the future of health and health services post Covid. Working with leaders in the field his vision is of a revitalised service that, turned on its head, wraps itself around us as people (rather than patients) rather than, as now, the other way aro…

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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 3 - This Time It Must Be Different 44:49

4y ago44:49

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Professor Ronald MacDonald is a Research Professor in Macroeconomics and International Finance in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. His previous positions at the University were Bonar Macfie Chair of Economics (2005-2006), and the Adam Smith Chair of Political Economy (2006-2015). He has consistently ranked in the top 1% …

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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 2 - Predatory Capitalism in Action 33:34

4y ago33:34

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Before we get fully into gear to explore the #CovidSpring and so the future let's take a glance at the past and the present Covid Winter with a look at the effects of predatory capitalism unleashed via the ongoing story of the Mortgage Prisoners. This is an extraordinary story of the toxic economics we have in action involving the FCA, the British …

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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 1 - An Introduction to Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring 4:31

4y ago4:31

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Welcome to the #CovidSpring series in which we look through the Covid winter, which we are now enduring, to the coming spring beyond the crisis and harness some of the world's finest minds to together think about what kind of world we want to create. What kind of world we want and need - in search of humane economics. We'll be asking the question: …

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S2 Ep.15 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Jun 2020 43:07

4+ y ago43:07

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As the masterclass moved online... Dan Green and Sarah Beaumont from Baker Botts explore cryptoassets and stablecoins. Maria Graza Vigliotti talking about her recently launched book - “Executive Guide to Blockchain”- using Smart Contracts and Digital Currencies in your Business. Taweh Beysolow II, Aludra Capital’s chief data scientist, joining us f…

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S2 Ep. 14 - What if Libra Existed Today? 22:29

4+ y ago22:29

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What if Libra Was LiveToday? The world was in a different kind of uproar for months after Facebook and their alliance announced Libra. Then it was that senators were foaming at the mouth and it was the central banks that came close to rioting. Amid similar Trump-inspired scenes of protest on the streets of some of the cities of America today what i…

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S2 Ep. 13 - It's Time to Launch the Fintech Lifeboat - not Sink it! 21:03

4+ y ago21:03

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Today, mid covid-crisis and with banks under increasing criticism I interview Lee Birkett, founder and CEO of P2P platform JustUs who today wrote to the UK Prime Minister, the Chancellor and the Business Secretary, asking they open the doors to #Fintech so that business can be helped now, when it's most needed, rather than in a month or two's time …

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S2 Ep. 12 - A HiveMind Explores the #NewNormal #BeyondCovid2020 44:37

4+ y ago44:37

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A HiveMind Explores the #NewNormal #BeyondCovid2020 On the 20th of March 2020 life in the UK changed forever when the government, a conservative government to boot, created a safety net for the population as well as for businesses and began to pay the wages of a significant proportion of the population for the duration of the crisis. Around the wor…

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S2 Ep. 11 - The #GuildfordCrowd: Crowdfunding Together - Council & University 20:17

4+ y ago20:17

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Surrey University have launched an exciting new crowdfunding initiative in concert with the local council and local charities. Surrey's crowdfunding platform Gaggle Connect is hosting a raft of campaigns including one to expand the 'Library of Things' service - which brings a new dimension to the sharing economy. Barry talks to Jim Sears who is pro…

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S2 Ep. 10 - Ray Sylvain SignOnTheGo 17:31

4+ y ago17:31

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SignOnTheGo is a new Blockchain-Based e-Signature Platform designed for ease of use by SME's and individuals. Bringing simplicity to a service previously only available at a high cost to corporates. Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/signonthego/signonthego-blockchain-based-e-signature-platform…

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S2 Ep. 9 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Feb 2020 36:42

4+ y ago36:42

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This episode covers. The team blockchain. Masterclass for February, held on the 17th of February. Where I talk with Anthony Abell. Director and co-founder of Trust Me and T-P X about the property exchanges due to launch this year, which will revolutionise the ownership of property by making it liquid. Amongst other things, it will allow equity rele…

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S2 Ep. 8 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Jan 2020 32:44

5y ago32:44

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Barry E James & Jonny Fry talk with Vy Pettit of Vizidox, Phil Cambell of Pepo and Bridget Greenwood from The Bigger PieDoor Frontier Tech Radio

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S2 Ep. 7 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Dec 2019 49:39

5y ago49:39

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December's TeamBlockchain Masterclass is an eclectic mix with lawyer Charley Kerrigan, who played a role in a milestone-making report that confirms the backing of English law for crypto-assets, digital signatures and smart contracts. Technologist Hock Law, CEO of Ethernom talks about a computer on a credit-card hosting a crypto-wallet while Bob Boo…

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S2 Ep 6 - TeamBlockchain Masterclass Nov. 2019 with Lee Birkett, Liliana Reasor & On Yavin 37:52

5y ago37:52

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BiPS are breaking new ground streets ahead of Libra and the field and I speak with CEO Lee Birkett about the latest from Moneybrain. With Liliana Reasor founder of SupraFin about opening investing & diversification to all & On Yavin about the Cointelligence Academy - which is now open & free!Door ICO News Desk

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S2 Ep 5 - Commonwealth Finance Ministers at the IMF & the Future of Sovereign Debt 20:25

5y ago20:25

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BBFTA cofounder Dr Jane Thomason addressed this months meeting of Commonwealth Finance Ministers in Washington DC, presenting a paper on #Blockchain and Sovereign Debt. She discussed the potential and benefits including cutting out 10 intermediaries and moving Sovereign Debt transactions from 5 days to 5 seconds. Already the pilot has a secondary m…

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S2 Ep 4 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Oct 2019 38:54

5y ago38:54

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Tom Mason is Koodoo's Technical Director, a tech entrepreneur, technical architect and business strategist. In 2008 Tom founded the software agency YouSoft, providing award-winning development services to best-in-class firms, including Porsche and Mercedes. Koodoo is a global equity crowdfunding platform connecting conscious investors and impact fo…

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S2 Ep 3 - Frontier Insights: This Weeks Analysis 4:13

5y ago4:13

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Frontier Insights are a weekly analysis of the latest advances and setbacks, use cases and major case studies and game changers in frontier tech. Published weekly to BBFTA.org members - here're this weeks highlights: How Blockchain technology is being used by vehicle manufacturers Central Banks digital currencies - Just a matter of time Generating …

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S2 Ep 2 - A New 'Cryptobank', Due Diligence on Crypto Assets & Who Takes the Blame When a Decentralised System Goes Wrong? 35:30

5y ago35:30

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On the fringe of TeamBlockchain's September Blockchain Masterclass Barry interviews the speakers: Sean Kiernan. CEO and cofounder of DAG Global - the first UK bank created precisely to serve the blockchain and digital assets space - while all the other banks seem to be running in the opposite direction. Not only that this new breed of bank recognis…

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S2 Ep 1 - Global Money, Global Gamechanger. Libra, China's Digital Currency and Beyond 34:47

5y ago34:47

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Kicking off season two Barry talks to Jonny Fry, CEO of TeamBlockchain and cofounder of the BBFTA.org about how the global landscape has changed so very fast. First the shift in the zeitgeist resulting from Libra coin, backed by Facebook and a consortium including Mastercard and Visa - plus the spread of CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies) - so…

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Ep. 54 - Can Blockchain startup IndieOn take on the Film and Music Industries? 22:11

5+ y ago22:11

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Apple famously remade to music landscape - can this blockchain startup help to cut out the middlemen enable help musicians and artists to earn a living from their work? Nigel Rudlin is one of the cofounders of IndieOn.com - the blockchain startup that is seeking to remake the landscape for musicians and filmmakers.…

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Ep. 53 - Frontier Insights: Mapping the Future 30:56

5+ y ago30:56

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This week, Barry E James speaks with Jonny Fry of Team Blockchain about Frontier Insights. Everyone is struggling to stay on top of the fast moving frontier of new technologies, especially Blockchain/DLT, AI and IoT. Every day there’s an incredible avalanche of stories published online, some fake and many more unreliable opinion or plain PR puff. T…

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Ep. 52 - 'Blockchain Rookies' Explain Blockchain - Clearly... 27:50

5+ y ago27:50

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'Blockchain Rookies' Explain Blockchain, Clearly, to Rookies (and others) Saying that blockchain technology is the result of a paradigm shift while true is not much help in understanding it. In fact it just points to the difficulty for most people in understanding it. People who can articulated advantages and explore its applications - especially w…

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Ep. 51 - The British Blockchain & Frontier Technologies Association Launches 7:38

5+ y ago7:38

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We are now launching the first Association globally, the first network globally, for frontier Technologies But it's not just an Association for technologists at the Frontiers of AI, bots, robots, iot, autonomous vehicles, alternative reality, augmented reality, DLT and blockchain. Nor is it just for geeks in all the other emergent area a fintech an…

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Ep. 50 - Countdown to London Blockchain Week 19:40

6y ago19:40

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London blockchain week has grown into one other major annual fixtures for the ecosystem. Barry interviews founder Luis Carranza, about how came about, this year's highlights and a vision for the future, not to mention all the good reasons to join the community as part of this year's London blockchain week from February the 8th to the 14th https://b…

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Ep. 49 - The BiPS Have Landed - A Giant Leap for Fintech? 26:48

6y ago26:48

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Lee Birkett describes what just happened as a world first and for them something akin to landing a mission to Mars. It's certainly hugely significant because this is the very thing that we were talking about with Mike Barrell the founder of the Security Tokens Realised conference: the tokenization onto the blockchain of regulated assets. In this ca…

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Ep. 48 - Security Tokens Taking the City of London by Storm? 23:54

6y ago23:54

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Tokens That’re Set to Take City by Storm? Security Tokens: Rising rapidly into the Billions? Security Token Offering (STO) investor Mike Barrell says that security tokens represent “a massive tidal wave of opportunity” for not just geeks but those in the city in 2019. Now he’s putting his money where his mouth is as the founder of next week's 'Secu…

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Ep. 47 - Tokenisation: ‘Crowdfunding on Steroids’ 36:47

6y ago36:47

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Following three decades as an entrepreneur and eight or so years specialising in equity crowdfunding, today’s guest Oscar Jofre explains why he firmly believes 2019 will be the year of the Security Token. Along the way, he discusses his own lightbulb moment about the democratisation of capital during a speech given by former vice chairman of NASDAQ…

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Ep. 46 - Making Investing Accessible For Everyone 21:22

6y ago21:22

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Scott Picken has been an entrepreneur since his teens, passionate both about property and technology and the wealth that they can and do create. He created Wealth Migrate as a global enterprise five years ago and this now boasts 20k members from 125 countries, $80m in equity and over $520m in total deal value. More recently Blockchain technology st…

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Ep. 45 - Blockpass on Owning Your Identity 26:01

6y ago26:01

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Fed up scanning your passport, driving licence and all the rest to prove who you are? Imagine a world where you only have to input your identity details just once; imagine the time and the hassle that would save. Imagine not having to drag out your passport and your ID documents every time you want to check out an exchange or investigate an ICO inv…

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Ep. 44 - As Attenborough Warns Decision Makers, Could This Tech Help? 19:51

6y ago19:51

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This is no time for making plans for 2050 - people are dying - today! It was while studying at Cambridge university that today’s guest Nat Rich realised quite what a state the world is in – and that if people knew some of the stuff she was finding out, they’d be horrified. The problem of carbon emission, and the high NOx levels which kill people, i…

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Ep. 43 - Why The UK Needs A Blockchain Enabling Bill - Now 43:05

6y ago43:05

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Why We Need A Blockchain Bill The answer is simple: We want to lead the world, not fall behind. Once we put the same legal weight behind blockchain technology we long ago did behind paper and 'wet signatures' we can help lead the world ...replace many of our digital (banking, payments and other) slow toll-roads with far faster highways shrinking ti…

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Ep. 42 - On the cusp of remaking the world: unlearning everything you learnt at school 27:55

6y ago27:55

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On the cusp of remaking the world: unlearning everything you learnt at school Or: throwing down the digital gauntlet Global Nomad – ‘Glomad’ - Jane Thomason has been working in international development most of her life, helping developing nations cope with enormous problems - poverty, inequality, and healthcare. In 2010, her son told her someone h…

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Ep. 41 - Satoshi Day 10 Years On: Blockchain Revolution - How're We Doing, Where're We Going 31:58

6y ago31:58

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It's 10 years now since Satoshi wrote the white paper that sparked a revolution and is set to change the Internet, money and so the world A look back at the first ten years, where we're going and how we are doing from the perspective of that original vision. Not least though the choices that lie ahead: Will be we architects of the future now being …

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Ep. 40 - BiPS: Crowdlending Tokens Readying to Go Global 28:42

6y ago28:42

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When Lee Birkett launched his online P2P lending and financial product comparison sites on the internet, he says it was a whole new world. Now, he says, Blockchain has the capacity to plug the leaky plumbing in the banking world, globally. Having managed portfolios of £5bn in loans and mortgages over 25 years as a regulated individual, Lee sees cre…

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Ep.39 - Special UK Edition on Why We're Driving Innovators Away & What we Should be Doing 23:23

6y ago23:23

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Why Blockchain and Cryptoassets are "The biggest gift to the Regulator - possibly ever - certainly in a generation!” Why Barry E James saw fit to write an open letter to Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer, titled ‘Britain Leading the World – or Losing a Historic Opportunity Forever’ Think of Britain. Traditionally a world leader in financi…

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Ep. 38 - The Evolution of Disruption 18:09

6y ago18:09

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A Mindset Shift Among Incumbents! Those in the fintech and crypto space have gone from being the problem wild child to the cool kid on the block according to Martin Bartlam who shares some of the insights from DLA Piper’s recent report ‘Digital Transformation in Financial Services’ - which throws up some very interesting findings. Not least that th…

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Ep. 37 - Could a self-policing code of conduct shake the bad apples from the ICO tree? 23:08

6y ago23:08

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Shaking the bad apples from the ICO tree, self-policing code of conduct changing the world. Global regulation of the ICO sector has proved contentious, with individual jurisdictions reacting differently to the rise of tokenisation and the need to deal with bad actors and the potential for fraud. But it is widely agreed across the industry that it c…

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Ep. 36 - SPECIAL: Global Blockchain Ventures Scheme - A Leap Forward For Transparency 17:57

6y ago17:57

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In the face of a plethora of ‘Wild West’ references around the ground-breaking innovation of the blockchain space, is the old way of doing business, the old way of making money, facing its final frontier? Does the battle to keep this space regulated end up like Tombstone, Arizona? Or, making money - without the Mint. Or, bringing Outlaws, in law. P…

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Ep. 35 - How is Blockchain Changing Big Business? 39:11

6y ago39:11

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Cryptocurrency: a new kind of Clubcard? As a traditional asset manager with an interest in new technology, Jonny Fry of Team Blockchain came to this ecosystem thinking (as many still do) that cryptocurrency and blockchain were somehow inextricably linked with Ponzi schemes, drugs and crime. But he came to realise; if you’re involved in nefarious ac…

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Ep. 34 - Could 'Find Engine' Zwoop Disrupt Amazon to Become the Consumer's Best Friend? 28:25

6y ago28:25

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Zwoop: The new consumer champions, looking to make money out of the customer without cheating them, share the proceeds from their data, and blow Amazon out of the water! In today’s world of online shopping, the odds are very much stacked in favour of the retailer - never the consumer. There’s no doubt that e-commerce aggregators make shopping easie…

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Ep. 33 - From Grainy Snapshots to HD Video: Continuous, Transparent, Blockchain Audit 37:35

6y ago37:35

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With regulators around the world scrambling to get to grips with Blockchain tech could the technology itself, and continuous audit, be part of the answer? When I spoke to Auditchain™ founder Jason Meyers this week, it felt a little like talking to blockchain royalty – at once removed anyhow Jason’s top team includes such luminaries as Dr.Stuart Hab…

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Ep. 32 - Reinventing Money: What Happens When the Gold Standard Collides with Crypto & Debit Cards? 27:40

6y ago27:40

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What if your money was backed by real gold yet could be spent via an ordinary-looking debit card, same as any other. With much lower transaction costs than you're used to - by a factor of around 10. Plus you got a 'yield' too? We’ve featured asset-backed cryptocurrency raises before, including recently exploring the real estate space in episode 21 …

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Ep. 31 - Why We Need More Women in Blockchain - Meet the Crypto Diva! 27:09

6y ago27:09

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If you want a thing to happen – get a woman in! Says the Crypto Diva! When Barry met Jillian Godsil, journalist, fintech expert, commentator and champion of Women in Blockchain, he described the meeting as a whirlwind that knocked him off his feet. Jillian is undoubtedly a force of nature – refreshingly upfront about how recently she’s moved into t…

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Ep. 30 - Brains, Chains & AI - Can they ever work together? 40:20

6y ago40:20

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This episode is less an interview, more a conversation between host Barry E James and someone steeped not in the world of Blockchain, but AI, chatbots and machine learning: Tania Peitzker founder and CEO of ‘Bots as a Service’ Billions of dollars have been invested in AI by Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others over the past thirty years. Tania beli…

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