A full day in London spent on the least glamorous word in finance. What the tokenisation summit was really selling was a quieter door into markets that have always been kept locked. Events · Crypto 7 July 2026 · London Picture a room of bankers, lawyers and policy people, talking with genuine intensity about the […]
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Bending Spoons soared on its first day. Why the exciting IPO price is rarely the one you get, and how I read a hot new listing. Markets · Beginner The pop everybody sees On the first of July, an Italian software company called Bending Spoons, the outfit that has hoovered up faded internet names like
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Britain is putting rules around crypto for the first time. Here are the dates that matter, and what the new FCA regime changes for you as a holder. Crypto · UK · Regulation Who do you call when it goes wrong? Let me start with an uncomfortable question. If the platform holding your crypto vanished
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Tech stumbled, and boring names climbed- what the great rotation of 2026 says about chasing winners, and the quiet case for patience. Markets · Mindset The dull stuff is winning, and that tells you something Here is a sentence I did not expect to write this month: the boring companies are beating the brilliant ones.
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Quiet luxury is losing its shine as shoppers choose experiences over objects. What the shift means for how you spend, and what real luxury is now. Lifestyle · Luxury The bag that changed nothing I once saved for months for a particular designer bag, convinced that carrying it would change how I felt walking into
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Ecclesiastes 11:6 tells us to sow morning and evening because we cannot know which will prosper. That ancient line teaches about diversifying. Faith · Investing A line older than the stock market There is a sentence tucked into the Book of Ecclesiastes that would sit comfortably in any modern investing seminar, except it is roughly
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Lifestyle · Home · Quiet Luxury The money is for life, and much of the life happens at home. A piece on making the place you live somewhere that quietly restores you. The corner I made just so There is a corner of my home that I arranged with more care than strictly makes sense,
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· Finance · Building · The Long View Generational wealth is more than a number in a will. A piece on what really lasts, what gets spent, and building something that outlives you. The question that arises with children Something shifts in how you think about money when there are people in the house who
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Finance · Real Life · Stay Safe The best scams do not look like scams. They look like a friend, a bargain, and a sure thing. Here is how I keep my money out of their reach. The message that looked exactly right Someone I love very much once showed me a message that had
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Finance · Emerging Markets The best-known companies are not the only place growth lives. A calm look at emerging markets, the real promise, the real potholes, and how I hold them. A city that was building itself I remember standing in a city I had never visited before, watching cranes swing against the skyline in
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