Attend the Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon.
Want to attend the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal this year? Well, I am willing to sponsor 100% of the trip for a deserving boy and a girl from Pakistan. I have cited on many forums and wanted to reiterate…
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Own your own IBAN?
The IBAN is slowly becoming the de facto standard of identifying a beneficiary account. Barring the US, many countries are now jumping on-board the IBAN bandwagon. At the time of writing this article, 82 countries are using IBAN. However, the…
Trading With Digital IOUs.
For the past couple of years, I have been talking around the world about the Fragments State of Our Payment Systems. With over 1,900 payment systems around the world, less than 3 percents are connected and can talk to each…
Why the Spice Trade Routes were Important to the Europeans
When you’re young, you learn to hate history! You wonder if studying history even does any good to your life later on. A phrase I read again and again in my history class was “Spice Trade”. Today, when I look…
The e-Fiat Story: From the Physical Cheque to the Digital IOU.
I present to you the following scenario. Day 1: Single IOU Let’s say you walk into your bank in America and present $ 100,000 to the bank, and ask them to make a Cashier’s Cheque for you. No problem they…
How Will Money Transfer Look Like In 5 Years Time?
In 2012, I answered a question on Quora, How will money transferring between countries look in five years? I did not edit or touch the answer in any manner for five years. Well, now that the 5 years are up and…
Alfred Escher: The Man behind Swiss Banking and Swiss Railways – A Brief
I never knew about Alfred Escher and learned about him quite by accident. I happened to be reading a great post about how the Knights Templar invented modern banking on Chris Skinner’s blog when I discovered an article about Alfred…