Thanks to everyone who read my last piece that explained why investing in tactical marketing activities without first having a clear...

I talk to many Fintech CEO’s in my travels and most are charismatic, smart, determined, and business savvy, And yet, very f ew have a...

Chatting to industry colleagues the other day, we were bemoaning that capital markets have always been a highly cyclical industry and we...

The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster accurately predicts the world we all now live in, sitting safely cocooned from the dangers of the...

Different V57 clients discussing the future of Financial Technology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhngf1fy53w

Thanks to Toby at Harrington Starr for inviting me onto FinTech TV last week https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6675724...

Perhaps counterintuitively, I opened a retail brokerage account last Friday. My rationale was two-fold.  First, I wanted to see how easy...

The news coverage of the spread of COVID-19 or, more popularly, Coronavirus seems more like a scene from some dystopian sci-fi movie...

are many messages contained within Coleridge’s famous Rime of the Ancient Mariner but really it's about appreciating those things around...

New blog from V57 founder Steve Grob on the true picture of SI liquidity in Europe https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-si-jim-we-know-stev...

Thanks again to CNBC for inviting me on their show https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/10/07/hong-kong-may-struggle-to-find-another-partner-i...

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/09/12/takeover-of-lse-would-create-problems-for-politicians-strategist-says.html

Einstein famously said that “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results”. Likewise, the fabric...

There has been a lot of commentary on the proposed acquisition of Refinitiv by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) but much of it...

Military precedent and strategy can provide some useful pointers in today’s hyper competitive FinTech market. Hannibal's victory over the...

The first mousetrap - the “Little Nipper” was patented over 100 years ago by a Yorkshire Ironmonger and is still in production...