Moneyneversleeps

Kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists: Top Tier RecruitmentIn this episode, Pete Townsend and Paul Smyth (artfully filling in for Eoin Fitzgerald) riff on three developments this week in the world of tech and venture capital to try to get inside of the minds of the entrepreneurs behind the stories. Here they are:How Facebook’s Libra fueled push for central bank-run digital currencies - Financial Times - Monday, 23rd September, 2019 (paywall): https://www.ft.com/content/746808a0-d9f6-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17 France, UK, Sweden, Japan, China all weigh in with their views KEY POINT: “To consumers it would feel very much like the electronic payment and transfer solutions that are already available today through their banking apps or a service such as PayPal.” Why is this important, where could it all go and what's going through Mark Zuckerberg's mind? Pete Townsend's recent blog post, "My Thoughts on Libra" WeWork’s Adam Neumann to step down as chief exe