Episodes

Stablecoins—digital currencies pegged to existing money, like the dollar, euro, pound or gold—are the hottest topic in finance. From crypto-market dollars like Tether and Circle to Facebook’s Diem project and tomorrow’s central bank digital currencies (CBDC), many stablecoins are staking a claim to be the payments medium of the future. But stablecoins are not a new idea, says Peter Wierts, a senior economist at the Dutch central bank, an associate professor at the Free University and our guest...

Stablecoins—digital currencies pegged to existing money, like the dollar, euro, pound or gold—are the hottest topic in finance. From crypto-market dollars like Tether and Circle to Facebook’s Diem project and tomorrow’s central bank digital currencies (CBDC), many stablecoins are staking a claim to be the payments medium of the future. But stablecoins are not a new idea, says Peter Wierts, a senior economist at the Dutch central bank, an associate professor at the Free University and our guest...

“We’ve never been so busy,” says Nick Furneaux, a digital forensic investigator who specialises in cryptocurrency crime. Furneaux, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast, works with law enforcement bodies and large corporates around the world, focusing on ‘the challenge of investigating crimes involving cryptocurrency’. Listen to the podcast to hear Nick and New Money Review editor Paul Amery discuss: How cryptocurrency created new avenues for crime “What bitcoin did was to provide...

“We’ve never been so busy,” says Nick Furneaux, a digital forensic investigator who specialises in cryptocurrency crime. Furneaux, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast, works with law enforcement bodies and large corporates around the world, focusing on ‘the challenge of investigating crimes involving cryptocurrency’. Listen to the podcast to hear Nick and New Money Review editor Paul Amery discuss: How cryptocurrency created new avenues for crime “What bitcoin did was to provide...

“We’ve never been so busy,” says Nick Furneaux, a digital forensic investigator who specialises in cryptocurrency crime. Furneaux, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast, works with law enforcement bodies and large corporates around the world, focusing on ‘the challenge of investigating crimes involving cryptocurrency’. Listen to the podcast to hear Nick and New Money Review editor Paul Amery discuss: How cryptocurrency created new avenues for crime “What bitcoin did was to provide...

The combination of finance and technology is driving us towards the biggest change in human history in 500 years, says Viktor Shvets, my guest on this week’s podcast. Shvets, a Hong Kong-based investment banker with Macquarie and a widely followed markets analyst, specialises in the intersection between finance, technology, politics and history. Viktor’s background—he grew up in the former USSR before moving to Australia in his early 20s—has given him a unique perspective into the great geopol...

The combination of finance and technology is driving us towards the biggest change in human history in 500 years, says Viktor Shvets, my guest on this week’s podcast. Shvets, a Hong Kong-based investment banker with Macquarie and a widely followed markets analyst, specialises in the intersection between finance, technology, politics and history. Viktor’s background—he grew up in the former USSR before moving to Australia in his early 20s—has given him a unique perspective into the great geopol...

The combination of finance and technology is driving us towards the biggest change in human history in 500 years, says Viktor Shvets, my guest on this week’s podcast. Shvets, a Hong Kong-based investment banker with Macquarie and a widely followed markets analyst, specialises in the intersection between finance, technology, politics and history. Viktor’s background—he grew up in the former USSR before moving to Australia in his early 20s—has given him a unique perspective into the great geopol...

The climate crisis demands a complete rethink of what money is and how we use it

The climate crisis demands a complete rethink of what money is and how we use it

The climate crisis demands a complete rethink of what money is and how we use it

The public needs protection from the Wild West land grab that’s now going on in money, says Rohan Grey, our guest on the latest episode of the New Money Review podcast. Grey, Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University in the US, was one of the authors of a controversial bill brought before the US Congress late last year, called the ‘Stable Act’. The Stable Act’s objective—it is due to return to Congress later this year—was to protect consumers from the risks posed by emerging digital ...

The public needs protection from the Wild West land grab that’s now going on in money, says Rohan Grey, our guest on the latest episode of the New Money Review podcast. Grey, Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University in the US, was one of the authors of a controversial bill brought before the US Congress late last year, called the ‘Stable Act’. The Stable Act’s objective—it is due to return to Congress later this year—was to protect consumers from the risks posed by emerging digital ...

The public needs protection from the Wild West land grab that’s now going on in money, says Rohan Grey, our guest on the latest episode of the New Money Review podcast. Grey, Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University in the US, was one of the authors of a controversial bill brought before the US Congress late last year, called the ‘Stable Act’. The Stable Act’s objective—it is due to return to Congress later this year—was to protect consumers from the risks posed by emerging digital ...

In our slippery world of risk, uncertainty, change and complexity, hard and fast rules can be rare. Sometimes those rules can even be a trap, says Gerald Ashley, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast. Ashley, a former banker, is now an author, financial historian, public speaker and consultant, specialising in risk and decision making. In his podcast discussion with New Money Review editor Paul Amery, he argues that we often misunderstand risks and have too narrow a view of the mode...

In our slippery world of risk, uncertainty, change and complexity, hard and fast rules can be rare. Sometimes those rules can even be a trap, says Gerald Ashley, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast. Ashley, a former banker, is now an author, financial historian, public speaker and consultant, specialising in risk and decision making. In his podcast discussion with New Money Review editor Paul Amery, he argues that we often misunderstand risks and have too narrow a view of the mode...

In our slippery world of risk, uncertainty, change and complexity, hard and fast rules can be rare. Sometimes those rules can even be a trap, says Gerald Ashley, our guest on the latest New Money Review podcast. Ashley, a former banker, is now an author, financial historian, public speaker and consultant, specialising in risk and decision making. In his podcast discussion with New Money Review editor Paul Amery, he argues that we often misunderstand risks and have too narrow a view of the mode...

We should all pay attention to what’s going on in payments, because changes in the technology of money transfers are going to affect all our lives. In the latest New Money Review podcast, Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Teran discuss their new book, ‘the Pay Off’. Leibbrandt is the former chief executive at SWIFT, the messaging network that supports trillions of dollars a day in global money transfers. De Teran is SWIFT’s former head of communications. It’s hard to keep up with what’s goi...

We should all pay attention to what’s going on in payments, because changes in the technology of money transfers are going to affect all our lives. In the latest New Money Review podcast, Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Teran discuss their new book, ‘the Pay Off’. Leibbrandt is the former chief executive at SWIFT, the messaging network that supports trillions of dollars a day in global money transfers. De Teran is SWIFT’s former head of communications. It’s hard to keep up with what’s goi...

We should all pay attention to what’s going on in payments, because changes in the technology of money transfers are going to affect all our lives. In the latest New Money Review podcast, Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Teran discuss their new book, ‘the Pay Off’. Leibbrandt is the former chief executive at SWIFT, the messaging network that supports trillions of dollars a day in global money transfers. De Teran is SWIFT’s former head of communications. It’s hard to keep up with what’s goi...

In the latest episode of the New Money Review podcast, I interview an old friend and former colleague, Paul Craven. After working for nearly thirty years as an asset manager, Paul is now a consultant, public speaker, coach and author. He works with a range of clients, from investors to doctors to lawyers and entrepreneurs. His specialist topic is behavioural economics, which Paul describes as “how real people make real decisions in the real world”. His insights in this area don’t just come f...

In the latest episode of the New Money Review podcast, I interview an old friend and former colleague, Paul Craven. After working for nearly thirty years as an asset manager, Paul is now a consultant, public speaker, coach and author. He works with a range of clients, from investors to doctors to lawyers and entrepreneurs. His specialist topic is behavioural economics, which Paul describes as “how real people make real decisions in the real world”. His insights in this area don’t just come f...

In the latest episode of the New Money Review podcast, I interview an old friend and former colleague, Paul Craven. After working for nearly thirty years as an asset manager, Paul is now a consultant, public speaker, coach and author. He works with a range of clients, from investors to doctors to lawyers and entrepreneurs. His specialist topic is behavioural economics, which Paul describes as “how real people make real decisions in the real world”. His insights in this area don’t just come f...

The race to develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC) is often portrayed as one of polar opposites: the Chinese hare against the US tortoise. But we should keep a close eye on a third contestant in the race, the eurozone, says Jonas Gross, our guest in the latest New Money Review podcast. The new digital euro project is part of a package of measures undertaken by the European Union (EU) to ensure the region stays competitive in the increasingly internet-based global economy. Last summer ...