The global fintech race

Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 7:28 a.m.

b'Fintech is not just about finance and technology. \\nIt\\u2019s the trade war between Trump and China. It\\u2019s about politics, history and culture. It\\u2019s the battle over privacy and money laundering. In an era when some politicians seek to exploit fears of immigration, fintech is also a global race for human talent.\\nWhat are the next moves in this multi-dimensional chess game?\\nIn the latest New Money Review podcast, we ask Lex Sokolin, global co-head of fintech at ConsenSys, to respond to this question. \\nSokolin discusses the technological arms race and who\\u2019s winning it, crazy fintech valuations and why they might persist, and how the power imbalance between private and public equity markets can be corrected.'