A friend of mine, Thorsten Linz of s1mplify who is one of the lucky bastards who get to live in Menlo Park posted an opinion piece on LinkedIn entitled “Within a Decade, Retail Banks will be Dead“. I actually think he’s overly optimistic: Retail banks
On June 3rd, 2016, Gerd Leonhard spoke at the 5th AMICE event for European mutual and cooperative insurers, held in Gent, Belgium. Below please find his entire keynote live recorded – on topics such as how exponential technologies and the 10 megashifts e.g. automation, intelligization, virtualisation, anticipation
A noteworthy article on Alternet last week, written by Dr. Roslyn Fuller asks “Technology brings new ways of working, but what has really changed?” Referring to “A Guide to Our Future” by British journalist Paul Mason, Fuller writes: “…Mason’s main premise, that information technology will
In this (German language) interview Prof. Timo Leukefeld present new business models for banks, housing sector and energy suppliers:
Economist and technologist David de Ugarte recently published his noteworthy views. Translated from Spanish, the post has been made public on the P2P Foundation blog. “The problem with blockchain is in its design: dependence on mining, an industrial activity based on the availability of infrastructure, puts
In his latest post in BuzzFeed, Charlie Warzel reports about the lesson he was taught about the future of money by using “Satan’s Credit Card” in a one month self-experiment. “A recent report from the auditor KPMG revealed that global investment in fintech — financial technology,
This is the complete video of Gerd Leonhard’s talk in English language at Deutsche Bank’s 2016 Transaction Bankers Forum in Frankfurt, April 2016. A big thank you to Deutsche Bank for making this video available. Topics covered in this live recording: exponential digital transformation, the future of
An read essay-style post found on FiveThirtyEight, complementing the Swiss referendum to be held on June 5th on an unconditional basic income, Excerpt: “The economic uncertainty surrounding basic income is huge, and the politics of bringing such a program about on a large scale are daunting.
A nicely illustrated study by Goldman Sachs, headed: “One of the largest generations in history is about to move into its prime spending years. Millennials are poised to reshape the economy; their unique experiences will change the ways we buy and sell, forcing companies to
It’s this time of the year again for everyone in the business to release their yearly predictions. In order to save you some time, we collected all the most important and relevant trends – from the sources that matter, in one post. The trends have been collected by
