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At the close of the Bank of England's consultation on the Digital Pound Barry interviews Danny Kruger MP, of the UK Parliament's Treasury Select Committee, who oversee the project, discussed the deep implications of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on financial stability and liberty. While Danny expressed concerns about the potential negative effects, he acknowledged that he and his colleagues on the Treasury Select Committee were not experts on the topic and that there was a general perception that CBDCs were a natural evolution of the digital revolution. Barry and Danny discussed the...
info_outline S4 Ep. 3 - Interview with Jasmine Birtles on d£ and CBDCsFrontier Tech Radio
Summary Jasmine and Barry discussed the Bank of England's consultation on creating a digital pound. Jasmine expressed her concerns about central bank digital currencies, stating that they allow for too much control and monitoring by the government. Barry and Jasmine discussed the differences between cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies, with Jasmine expressing concerns about the centralized nature of CBDCs and the potential for government control over people's finances. They also talked about the impact of taxation on small businesses and the extractive nature of the economy....
info_outline S4 Ep. 2 - Central Banks, CBDCs and the rise and rise of DeFiFrontier Tech Radio
Barry talks to David Palmer, Blockchain Lead at Vodaphone & Jamiel Sheikh, Founder & CEO of Chainhaus - leading advisory, education, events & app studio about the rapid rise of DeFi and the advent of 'Central Bank Digital Currencies' in the week that the Bank of England announced its digital Pound project - closely following the digital Euro.
info_outline S4 Ep. 1 - DeFi and 3D Democracy - The future landscapeFrontier Tech Radio
In this fascinating conversation with David Palmer, a visionary, who is also the blockchain lead for Vodafone, we range widely across digital transformation, including the fact that we're all increasingly cyborgs living in a digital, as well as physical environment.
info_outline Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 6 - Fintech Tackling the Poverty Trap with Fairer Finance Hackathon Winners FinexosFrontier Tech Radio
Fintech Tackling the Poverty Trap with Finexos' CEO/Founder Mark Fisher and Chair Steven Bone.
info_outline Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 5 - Why There’s Still No End to Increasing Poverty & ‘Runaway Inequality’ and What We Can Do About itFrontier Tech Radio
An interview with Les Leopold, author of ‘Runaway Inequality’ for the #CovidSpring series
info_outline Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 4 - From Patients to Occupants: Turning the Health Service on Its HeadFrontier Tech Radio
In this episode we will be talking to another big-thinker: Andy Wilkins, founder of Vision4Health about the future of health and health services post Covid.
info_outline Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 3 - This Time It Must Be DifferentFrontier Tech Radio
Professor Ronald MacDonald is a Research Professor in Macroeconomics and International Finance in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. His previous positions at the University were Bonar Macfie Chair of Economics (2005-2006), and the Adam Smith Chair of Political Economy (2006-2015). He has consistently ranked in the top 1% of the IDEAS/RePec ranking of economists, and was awarded an OBE in 2015 for services to Economic Policy.
info_outline Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 2 - Predatory Capitalism in ActionFrontier Tech Radio
Barry speaks with Rachel Neale from UK Mortgage Prisoners.
info_outline Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 1 - An Introduction to Humane Economics & The #CovidSpringFrontier Tech Radio
Welcome to the #CovidSpring series in which we look through the Covid winter, which we are now enduring, to the coming spring beyond the crisis and harness some of the world's finest minds to together think about what kind of world we want to create. What kind of world we want and need - in search of humane economics.
info_outlineThis week, Barry E James speaks with Jonny Fry of Team Blockchain about Frontier Insights.
Everyone is struggling to stay on top of the fast moving frontier of new technologies, especially Blockchain/DLT, AI and IoT.
Every day there’s an incredible avalanche of stories published online, some fake and many more unreliable opinion or plain PR puff. There’s been nowhere to go to get concise, reliable, insightful and authoritative information.
This is why Frontier Insights is essential - scanning the horizon for the latest significant developments, innovations and use cases.
Barry and Jonny talk about what it is, what it covers and how to get hold of it: bbfta.org/insights