May 4, 2026 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Theme: “Costume Art” Every year on the first Monday in May, the most famous people alive climb a flight of stairs in New York while the rest of us judge their outfits with the seriousness usually reserved for elections. This is the Met Gala […]
September 9–10, 2026 · London · Where the quants meet the question of trust There’s a particular kind of nervous energy in a room full of people who all suspect their jobs are about to change — and are far too professional to say so out loud. That’s the AI in Finance Summit: two days
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April 2026 · Bangkok, Thailand · The deal-making heart of APAC The last time I moved money the old way, there was a paper slip, a rubber stamp, and a teller who held all the power. That queue doesn’t really exist anymore. So when I stand in a hall like this one, watching money cross
It already made mass crypto transfers feel like sending a text. The next chapter — machine learning — might be the one that really turns heads. Let me tell you about the moment a crypto wallet stops being a wallet and becomes something far more interesting. Here’s my honest take: for most of crypto’s short,
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The season has arrived — and this one is packed with reasons to be somewhere extraordinary. After a year that has thrown us geopolitical drama, market volatility, and more political plot twists than a prime-time boxset, I’ll admit summer 2026 arrives feeling like genuine relief. The world isn’t fixed — it rarely is — but
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After months of conflict and closed shipping lanes, a fragile framework has markets cautiously exhaling. Let me take you back to mid-June, to two words that briefly did what almost nothing else can — united the entire financial world in a single sigh of relief. US President Trump posted them: ‘Let the oil flow.’ Within
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Britain’s sixth prime minister in a decade steps down. Let me tell you what it means for your money. I was watching this morning when, outside that famous black door at Number 10, Keir Starmer announced he was resigning as Prime Minister and Labour leader — the sixth person to walk away from that job
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Investors have been borrowing cheaply in Japan and betting elsewhere for years. Let me tell you why the exit could get ugly. Let me let you in on a trade that’s quietly held up global markets for years — one almost nobody brings up at a dinner party unless they work in a hedge fund
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Stablecoins are getting a rulebook — and it might make them safer than your savings account. Let me tell you about the most interesting thing that happened this week that you almost certainly missed — because while political Britain was busy eating itself alive over who gets the keys to Number 10, the Bank of
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It started as the engine behind Bitcoin, and it is ending as the backbone of everything. Let me settle one thing before we go a single step further, because it trips up almost everyone — including me, once upon a time. Blockchain is not Bitcoin. Bitcoin runs on a blockchain, yes. But the technology underneath
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