Japan's Prime Minister @AbeShinzo announces $2.1 billion for #UniversalHealthCoverage at the start of high-level Forum in Tokyo. #HealthForAll #UHCForum #UHC2030

Two of the founders of the Center for the Living City (CLC), the University of Utah 's Stephen Goldsmith and author Roberta Brandes Gratz, had the extraordinary privilege of knowing and working with urban planning legend Jane Jacobs. CLC Director Goldsmith was a renowned sculptor who was asked to become the Salt Lake City Planner, the first ever artist/planner in a major U.S. city. At the time, he was founding director of Artspace, a community development corp that created affordable housing and workspaces for artists and others in Salt Lake City. During his tenure,  hew produced an award winning guide on walkable downtowns and a project to develop high-performance, green building policies for the city. Brandes Gratz is an international lecturer on urban development issues and former award-winning reporter for the New York Post. Her most recent book is "We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City." She also authored "The Battle For Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs," and the now classic "The Living City: Thinking Small in a Big Way." #journalism #media #storytelling #cities #poverty #Charlotte #CenterForTheLivingCity …see more

For #ThrowbackThursday, a remembrance of how I chose my profession-writing. Or, rather, how it chose me. #ThrowbackThursday #writing #journalism #inspiration …see more

From NPR - Does handing out sanitary pads really get girls to stay in school? https://lnkd.in/eHjWdzD @NPR #globaldevelopment

Thrilled to share that the 2nd Edition of Boombustology is now available to pre-order on Amazon! New content includes discussions of #cryptocurrencies , #gold , #india , #passiveinvesting , #qe , and more! https://lnkd.in/dCjQC4a

yes, b2b cross border flows is a massive opportunity. #b2b #fintech #payments #fx #currencies

we have made several investments with Middlegame Ventures first common denominator: we were passionate about the market. second: we bonded with the finding team third: we believed in the product/market fit to all post seed startups, this is what you want from a VC investor. …see more

BIS says the repo hiccup is the fault of “bank monopoly”. well that is what i say based on the BIS analysis. the bank monopoly says it is the regulators fault. what say you?

Facebook Pay, Apple Card & Wallet & Apple Pay + Goldman, JPMorgan offering banking pipes to mature fintech firms... the banking fintech wars are accelerating.

‪it is true that apart from a very few, the overwhelming majority of fintech startups have not made significant inroads in banking or threatened banks - contrary to pr noise.‬ ‪it is also equally true that banks are much more fragile than they appear - contrary to pr noise.‬ …see more

‪if banks are going to implode because negative rates ‬ ‪&‬ ‪if big tech is going to be reined in because regs‬ ‪&‬ ‪if fintech startups will never make it big because cac ‬ ‪& if chinese fintech/big tech is staying home because trade wars‬ ‪then who will provide banking services? Starbucks?‬ …see more

here is my gut feel regarding cloud computing in the financial services industry: - Microsoft Azure & AWS will dominate, with IBM or other providers in distant third place. as it pertains to blockchain services: - Azure & AWS will work with a wide variety of blockchain protocols - Azure & AWS will either build or buy tech that links different blockchain protocols with one another - IBM is stuck with the less optionality #tech #azure #blockchain #aws #ibm #azure #banking #banks #cloudcomputing #financialservices …see more

oh my gosh! i knew cobol was still widely used. I did not know how widely. 95% of ATM transactions use cobol. 40% of banks still rely on cobol.

if cocaine fueled the financial engineering excesses of the 80s (LBOs) and adderal fueled the excesses that led to the 2008/9 meltdown then what drug fueled the ICO excesses?

#COVID19 and the #2020Elections - In the past 10 days public sentiment has soured on #Trump handling of the crisis; #UnEmploymentClaims have skyrocketed in #swingstates like #Pennsylvania and #Michigan

Penn Engineering and Dean Vijay Kumar have a great new set of robotics courses on Coursera . Big opportunity for STEM learners.

Former Nabard Boss Harsh Bhanwala on #Pandeomonium : The Great Indian Banking Tragedy. Happy reading #economy #banks #financialstability #debt #indianbanking #banking #interestrates #governance #Consolidation #Fraud #Fintech #financialinclusion #growth …see more

Different digital shopping strokes for different shopping folks. Australian consumers like going to the store more than consumers in other countries, even though they find it not as satisfying as shopping online. In the Global Digital Shopping Index: Australia Report, PYMNTS surveyed nearly 2,000 consumers and 600 merchants to understand how the pandemic has changed consumer shopping behaviors – and where merchants are investing to respond. Full Report: https://bit.ly/36OOwco …see more

Samsung Pay  U.S. VP/GM, Sang Ahn  and Samsung Electronics  VP/GM, Nana Murugesan  tell me how Samsung Pay is going beyond mobile payments.

In basketball, jump balls can set the pace for the game, and shift its outcome. In the connected economy, jump discontinuity is setting the pace for the consumers' shift to connected experiences, and rapidly shifting the outcome for players in the digital and physical worlds. Understanding how a concept that only math geeks once loved is important to understanding why it will have dramatic consequences for the evolution of the connected economy over the next decade and beyond. One that has already fast-forwarded a few years in just the last few months. …see more