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Advertising is the new high-priced tobacco and vendors are addicted to it https://efipylarinou.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Advertising-new-tabacco-Featured-Image.jpg 800 583 Efi Pylarinou Efi Pylarinou https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/901f8526e9a0f3445aa4dd5241bd8631?s=96&d=mm&r=g May 31, 2019 June 5, 2019

Advertising is the new high-priced tobacco and vendors are addicted to it

Advertising is the new high-priced tobacco and vendors are addicted to it We have to fly high to get a different view of what is happening in the world. I started looking at the revenues of Big Tech companies like Amazon to see where growth is happening. Looking at the 2018 revenues of Amazon, there…

Do you envy Goldman Sachs? Join Marcus. https://efipylarinou.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/closeup-of-credit-cards-Featured-Image.jpg 800 534 Efi Pylarinou Efi Pylarinou https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/901f8526e9a0f3445aa4dd5241bd8631?s=96&d=mm&r=g May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019

Do you envy Goldman Sachs? Join Marcus.

Do you envy Goldman Sachs? Join Marcus. Come on, lets admit it. The world has long envied Goldman Sachs. This never faded away, even while Goldman Sachs was going through an identity crisis after the 2008 financial crisis. Goldman Sachs is an example of how an incumbent builds a Fintech business. It is not in…

We use language and law to collaborate; now is the time for Mathematics and nature’s way https://efipylarinou.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Entropy-Featured-Image.jpg 800 533 Efi Pylarinou Efi Pylarinou https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/901f8526e9a0f3445aa4dd5241bd8631?s=96&d=mm&r=g May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019

We use language and law to collaborate; now is the time for Mathematics and nature’s way

We use language and law to collaborate; now is time for Mathematics and nature’s way Christine Lagarde moderated a panel with two Central bankers (European Central Bank and CB of Kenya), an incumbent (JPMorgan) and a disruptor (crypto fintech company Circle). The topic was “Money and Payments in the Digital Age.” CCN covered the panel…

No Trade-offs: Give customers everything they want as cheaply as possible https://efipylarinou.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/business-success-Customers-Featured-Image.jpg 800 420 Efi Pylarinou Efi Pylarinou https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/96dce27466844b3fa11db86eaa9f0858?s=96&d=mm&r=g April 24, 2019 April 24, 2019

No Trade-offs: Give customers everything they want as cheaply as possible

No Trade-offs: Give customers everything they want as cheaply as possible [1] XY planning Network XYPN deployed successfully a subscription based offer for financial advisors in the US, 5years ago. They actually celebrated their 5yr birthday on April 4th with 900 members that use the service. This is evidence that a subscription service for financial…

Data Centers, AI and finance https://efipylarinou.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Data-centre-Featured-Image.jpg 800 533 Efi Pylarinou Efi Pylarinou https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/96dce27466844b3fa11db86eaa9f0858?s=96&d=mm&r=g April 22, 2019 April 22, 2019

Data Centers, AI and finance

Data Centers, AI and finance Future data centers of all kinds will be built like high performance computers,” — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang We are living in a world in which, more or less unconsciously, we increasingly “Trust in Math”. After the GPU adoption in business, we moved to new hardware that is not only…

Banks should steal the 2002 Bezos internal memo https://efipylarinou.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Beos-commandments-5-Featured-Image.jpg 800 533 Efi Pylarinou Efi Pylarinou https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/96dce27466844b3fa11db86eaa9f0858?s=96&d=mm&r=g April 17, 2019 April 18, 2019

Banks should steal the 2002 Bezos internal memo

Banks should steal the 2002 Bezos internal memo Dear Banks, It only takes an internal memo to ignite your own Bezos moment. Five clear and crystal commandments[1] (“good artists borrow, great artists steal”) that you can steal from Jeff B.: 1All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.2Teams must communicate with each other through…

The first investment bank to tokenize its own real-estate holdings – ReitBZ https://efipylarinou.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Rio-Brazil-featured-image.jpg 800 590 Efi Pylarinou Efi Pylarinou https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/96dce27466844b3fa11db86eaa9f0858?s=96&d=mm&r=g April 9, 2019 April 9, 2019

The first investment bank to tokenize its own real-estate holdings – ReitBZ

The first investment bank to tokenize its own real-estate holdings – ReitBZ Banco Pactual (BTG) from Brazil is the first `Shark` that makes my Davos prediction true. The next generation of structured products, asset-backed by illiquid real estate, is being designed as we speak in the labs of incumbent banks. Reitbz is its name, and…

Are robo-advisors about Low-cost products or `Passive beats Active`? https://efipylarinou.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Robo-001-Featured-Image.jpg 800 449 Efi Pylarinou Efi Pylarinou https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/96dce27466844b3fa11db86eaa9f0858?s=96&d=mm&r=g April 4, 2019 April 5, 2019

Are robo-advisors about Low-cost products or `Passive beats Active`?

Are robo-advisors about Low-cost products or `Passive beats Active`? We live in a world that is using new words in an accelerated pace. I recently ran across the hashtag #phygital. Which reminded me of the hybrid nature of robo-advisory services that has emerged from the growth of robo-services. The various robo services that have been…

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Margin lending with no Counterparty risk – the Dharma open source protocol

Margin lending with no Counterparty risk – the Dharma open source protocol In November 2017[1], I spoke to Nadav Hollander in California, the founder of Dharma.io, who had just “graduated” from Y-combinator. At the time, he described his vision to create on the blockchain a tokenized marketplace for loans. In February 2018, the Dharma open source…

A world of #WhenBinance & #WhenSIX https://efipylarinou.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/4-logos-stock-exchange.jpg 1200 800 Efi Pylarinou Efi Pylarinou https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/96dce27466844b3fa11db86eaa9f0858?s=96&d=mm&r=g March 8, 2019 April 9, 2019

A world of #WhenBinance & #WhenSIX

A world of #WhenBinance & #WhenSIX Stock Exchanges are the fastest and most efficient data-processing large scale system that we humans have designed so far [1]. Stock exchanges need roughly 15minutes of trade to determine the effect of a piece of news – political, scientific, ecological, societal etc – on the prices of shares. DLT technology may…

Advertising is the new high-priced tobacco and vendors are addicted to it

Do you envy Goldman Sachs? Join Marcus.

We use language and law to collaborate; now is the time for Mathematics and nature’s way

No Trade-offs: Give customers everything they want as cheaply as possible

Data Centers, AI and finance

Banks should steal the 2002 Bezos internal memo

The first investment bank to tokenize its own real-estate holdings – ReitBZ

Are robo-advisors about Low-cost products or `Passive beats Active`?

Margin lending with no Counterparty risk – the Dharma open source protocol

A world of #WhenBinance & #WhenSIX

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Advertising is the new high-priced tobacco and vendors are addicted to it

Do you envy Goldman Sachs? Join Marcus.

We use language and law to collaborate; now is the time for Mathematics and nature’s way

No Trade-offs: Give customers everything they want as cheaply as possible

Data Centers, AI and finance

Banks should steal the 2002 Bezos internal memo

The first investment bank to tokenize its own real-estate holdings – ReitBZ

Are robo-advisors about Low-cost products or `Passive beats Active`?

Margin lending with no Counterparty risk – the Dharma open source protocol

A world of #WhenBinance & #WhenSIX

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