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Recommended by David G.W. Birch

Agenda: Payments

By Jeremy Light

My personal Substack where I provide analysis and insights on payment systems and methods around the world.

Venn Factory: The Workshop

By Eve Maler

Tangled musings on identity, privacy, trust, and suchlike, from founder Eve Maler

How to Survive the Internet

By Jamie Bartlett

Helping you live a more fulfilling digital life

COPPOLA COMMENT

By Frances Coppola

Frances Coppola's comments. Mostly on banking, finance and economics, but sometimes other things.

Jeffrey Robinson's Writing Factory

Selected Works by Jeffrey Robinson

Crypto is Macro Now

By Noelle Acheson

The overlap between the macro economy and crypto markets, in both directions

It's hard to find coverage of the "crypto" sector that is rational, so Noelle's newsletter is always my starting point for making sense of the sector.

- David G.W. Birch

Business of Payments

By Geoffrey Barraclough

How Paytech makes money

Cashless: Fintech, CBDC and AI at the speed of Asia

By Rich Turrin

Fintech at the speed of Asia! Helping you navigate the disruption brought by fintech, CBDCs, AI, and the impact of the "Asian Century."

Richard's lucid analysis of the advanced (and exciting) Chinese payments scene is a must-read for those of us outside the country but fascinated by the developments.

- David G.W. Birch

Market Depth

By Charlie Crowson

Exploring the frontiers where financial markets, macro-economics and history meet

Rory’s Always On Newsletter

By Rory Cellan-Jones

A tech notebook with a focus on health - and occasional glimpses of a dog called #sophiefromromania

Identosphere’s Newsletter

By Identosphere Newsletter

Decentralized identity, Self-Sovereign Identity, Digital Identity

Fintech Brain Food 🧠

By Simon Taylor

The key trends in fintech summarized and analyzed. Weekly.

Simon's perceptive and accurate observations on the wide (and getting wider) world of financial technology are without fail one of my favourite weekly reads.

- David G.W. Birch

Altered States of Monetary Consciousness

By Brett Scott

I explore the frontiers of modern money and technology, and draw pictures to help you see our economic system with new eyes

Brett and I disagree about almost everything, which is why I read almost everything he writes.

- David G.W. Birch

Social Warming by Charles Arthur

By Social Warming: the Substack

Looking at the way social networks affect our societies, and in particular how they generate "social warming". It's why everyone seems so angry all the time.

Odds and Ends of History

By James O'Malley

Why that thing you retweeted is probably wrong.

Payments:Unpacked

A refreshingly independent view on the payments niche we inhabit.

Mike's career at the heart of the UK's payments infrastructure and his wide perspective on the evolution of the space are invaluable to those of us developing strategies in the field.

- David G.W. Birch

Memex 1.1

By John Naughton

John Naughton's online diary

John's respected and informed take on technology has been a delight for many, many years.

- David G.W. Birch