You've undoubtedly heard of ChatGPT. You may have even had a play with the technology and fed it some prompts. What really interests me is the hype around it – prophecies of how ChatGPT will transform business, arts, even society itself. The hype cycle I find ChatGPT a super
One year on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and this excellent, upbeat piece in The Economist got me thinking about what a wild ride global energy has been on over the last 12 months. The energy landscape today is virtually unrecognisable to the one we were looking at a
This week, the US SEC made an interesting move by fining the crypto exchange Kraken for offering “staking-as-a-service.” But what is staking, and why is this an important development in the crypto industry? What is staking? It’s important to highlight that the fine relates not to typical “lending” (as
Last week on the blog, we asked whether the UK was set to become the world’s next crypto haven. This week, more news surfaced in the UK-digital asset space as the Bank of England and Treasury published a paper on the potential launch of “Britcoin,” a digital pound. But
The UK is regulating crypto assets. That means bringing the rules governing the issuance, trading and lending of crypto tokens closely into line with those for traditional financial assets such as stocks and bonds. Playing catch up The FCA has supervised crypto asset businesses from an anti-money laundering perspective since
A significant story broke in our space this week. Nivaura, a competitor/peer of ours entered into an asset purchase agreement with another DCM-focused fintech NowCM, who will acquire all digital and IP assets. Nivaura started life slightly more towards the DLT-end of the digitisation spectrum, but there were many
Another year, another World Economic Forum. As usual, there are plenty of high-profile delegates attending Davos. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, US climate envoy John Kerry, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Al Gore, Tony Blair… the usuals. But this time it’s different. Some outlets are reporting on a lack of
This week, Goldman kicked off the new year by cutting just over 3000 jobs across the firm. They’re hardly an outlier, following in the footsteps of many other high profile firms to announce large redundancies including Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Coinbase, Facebook, Amazon, Salesforce, and many many more. For
I hope you’re all beginning to take your foot off the gas before the holidays. I’m getting there, but whoever coined the phrase “winding down for Christmas” can’t have been running a startup! It’s certainly been a sprint to the finish at Origin, with a lot
This week I had the privilege of catching up with friends and clients at our annual drinks event in Paris. It got me thinking about the nature of the modern financial hub and how the status of different cities has evolved in recent years. One city’s loss is another’
For decades, proponents of AI have been promising unimaginable riches and upgrades, painting a vision of the future where we sit around drinking pina coladas whilst robots drive our cars, mow our lawns and do our work. So far, it’s fair to say, most of what AI has achieved
This week, the ECB has been vocal in sharing its prognosis for the future of bitcoin. In addition to this blog post, it also posted a tweet articulating its thoughts in no uncertain terms: “The apparent stabilisation of bitcoin’s value is likely to be an artificially induced last gasp