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xxx The UK’s largest nine banks have been given a year to develop and adopt an Open Banking API interface for customer data sharing From CMA issues final order on Open Banking xxx

xxx One of my favorite moments from Star Trek is in ST IV: The Voyage Home, when Kirk and the gang are stranded in 1980s San Francisco. They try to board a Muni bus and are promptly turned away. Spock: What does it mean, “exact change”? Kirk: They’re still using money. We need to findContinue reading “Why Star Trek’s Future Without Money Is Bogus — Brain Knows Better”

There’s a lot of pressure on me to be in two places at once these days, so I was happy to see Google file and trivial and obvious “patent” on how to help busy executives achieve this using new (well, pretty old, actually) technology by gluing a wireless web cam to a drone. Google isContinue reading “POST So I went to a meeting”

xxx Mobile ID, a digital authentication system that is implemented into the user’s mobile SIM card, is ready to be used throughout Europe, according to Hubert Pujol of the French national cybersecurity authority ANSSI. From Is the EU ready to implement Mobile ID system? xxx

Published in The Futurist Magazine in September 2012 as part of a compilation of pieces envisioning life in 2100, this article asks if we will still have money in 2100, and speculates on what form it may take if we do It is quite likely that we will still have money in 2100, but itContinue reading “Publications – The European Futures Observatory”

xxx More consumers became victims of identity fraud last year than at any point in more than a decade despite new security protections implemented by the credit-card industry From Credit-Card Fraud Keeps Rising, Despite New Security Chips—Study – WSJ xxx

xxx The online dating industry generates around $2 billion in yearly returns in the United States only, with over 15 percent of US adults reporting utilizing online dating services and/or mobile dating apps. Statistics reveal that close to 40 percent of couples run into each other through common friends in spite of the rise ofContinue reading “CoinReport Ex-hedge fund manager to launch blockchain-based dating, matchmaking platform – CoinReport”

snippet When Sweetgreen opened in 2008, 40% of its take was cash. By 2016, that value dropped to between 10% and 15%. [From Why Your Business Should Ditch Cash – WSJ] snippet

Wow. Consult Hyperion’s 20th annual Forum, Tomorrow’s Transactions 2017, will be held at the America Square conference centre in London on 26th/27th April. The Forum, thanks to the wonderful support from our friends at Vocalink, PaySafeGroup, WorldPay and Olswang, will once again provide a unique environment for learning, investigation, discussion and debate about the futureContinue reading “A funny thing happened to the way to the Forum”

………..the second Consult Hyperion seminar on………. ………….. D I G I T A L … M O N E Y ……………. The Tower Thistle Hotel London March 8-9th 1999 in association with Financial Times Virtual Finance Report DEMOS E-Finance Forum with a keynote address by Sir Richard Body, M.P. and a special presentation by TimContinue reading “CHYP Forum 1998”