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Exclusive: Lack of Interdisciplinarity – Culprit for FinTech Talent Shortage

Exclusive interview with Prof. Aris Stouraitis: Part 1 In FinTech, the talent shortage is always a pain point in Hong Kong. It is our pleasure to discuss with Professor Aris Stouraitis, Department Head of Finance & Decision Sciences at Hong Kong Baptist University, to share with us the culprit of FinTech talent shortage. He also … Continue reading Exclusive: Lack of Interdisciplinarity – Culprit for FinTech Talent Shortage

Exclusive: What are Top 5 FinTech Career Advice for Graduates?

In Part 1 of the interview, Prof. Aris Stouraitis identified lack of interdisciplinarity is the culprit of FinTech talent shortage in Hong Kong. Interdisciplinarity in FinTech refers to talents that are knowledgeable in both finance and technology. He presents how the Master of Science in Finance (FinTech and Financial Analytics) (“the program”) offered by Hong Kong … Continue reading Exclusive: What are Top 5 FinTech Career Advice for Graduates?

Walmart Files Patent Introducing Its Own Digital Currency

Walmart has filed a cryptocurrency patent to develop its own U.S dollar-backed digital currency similar to Facebook’s Libra. The proposed coin’s objective aims to provide finance for those with limited access to banking services similar to Facebook’s intention for introducing Libra. The patent filing number 20190236564 “System and Method for Digital Currency via Blockchain,” was … Continue reading Walmart Files Patent Introducing Its Own Digital Currency

TRON Launches Sidechain Solution & Aims to List on Coinbase

Decentralized application platform, Tron (TRX) announced the launch of its sidechain solution, the Sun Network, as revealed in the company’s blog on 11 August. The Sun Network is a scaling solution that aims to provide unlimited scalability to the Tron MainNet. The Network incorporates several scaling projects such as DAppChain, which is a sidechain scaling project that offers unlimited scalability to the Tron MainNet. There … Continue reading TRON Launches Sidechain Solution & Aims to List on Coinbase

Digital Assets Market Update 12 August 2019

Bitcoin’s dominance is up by 1% (68.6%), the total market cap is down by 3.9% ($296bn)‚ and overall volume is down by 20% ($48bn) on the previous week. Bitcoin is down by 2.2%, Ethereum by 7.9%, XRP is down by 7.6%, and Litecoin by 10.8%. The best performers among the top-30 crypto were Binance Coin … Continue reading Digital Assets Market Update 12 August 2019

Fighting for Monetary and Financial Freedom

If we want to understand why blockchain will disrupt and uproot our current monetary and financial system, we need to understand the following: the history of currency; what is a currency; why currency exists; and the relationship between currency and wealth. Then we look at three key aspects (money form, money issuance, and the flow … Continue reading Fighting for Monetary and Financial Freedom

The Fate of Cryptocurrencies in a Fast-Changing Financial Ecosystem

As the financial media outlets are pushing Bitcoins with all her energy, a Harvard University Professor of Economics and Public Policy Kenneth Rogoff ascribed as a crypto Evangelists and has released some publications in the field of cryptocurrency opines that, with the massive push cryptos are getting, there would be a comprehensive market takeover where … Continue reading The Fate of Cryptocurrencies in a Fast-Changing Financial Ecosystem

Upwork Listed Cryptocurrency Affiliated Gigs as the Highest Paying for Freelancers

The Chief economist in one of the biggest freelance platforms Adam Ozimek has said that there has been an increase in the demand for freelancers with some tech-savviness. It was reported that there has been a tremendously growing need for workers who are tech-savvy or have one form of tech skill or another; most employment providers … Continue reading Upwork Listed Cryptocurrency Affiliated Gigs as the Highest Paying for Freelancers

Why Cryptocurrency Is Not A Viable Global Reserve Currency to Replace the US Dollar

In recent days ago, the UK Central Bank Boss, Mark Carney, made a revelation, which sparked interest in me to ask how could that phenomenon happen. The Bank of England governor sees digital currency as soon displacing the US dollar as global hedge currency. I believe this could become a reality as the digital currency … Continue reading Why Cryptocurrency Is Not A Viable Global Reserve Currency to Replace the US Dollar

HKEX Executive Director, Chief Executive: The LSEG-HKEX Merger Proposal in Context

HKEX formally announced today its intention to merge with the London Stock Exchange Group. We are early in the process so I can’t go into too much detail at this stage, but after many months of consideration we believe we have put forward a proposal that is ambitious, far-reaching, and could have a transformative effect on global … Continue reading HKEX Executive Director, Chief Executive: The LSEG-HKEX Merger Proposal in Context