by Alicja Teagle | Apr 10, 2025 | Events
Digital Identity Down Under 2025 On the (part 2 possibly in the autumn) Digital Identity Down Under 2025 Tour, David Birch’s stopped in Sydney and New Zealand with a brief stop in Singapore on the way back for another Payments Pub Quiz! First Stop: Unleashing...
by Alicja Teagle | Mar 26, 2025 | Events
Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2025 Last week, David headed to Berlin for one of his favourite events of the year Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2025! And what a busy week it was, from opening the show, to podcasts to roundtables and panel sessions and then closing the show...
by Alicja Teagle | Mar 6, 2025 | Writing
A strategic reserve is a stock of a systemically important input, which can be managed to mitigate economic disruption. The key example that we all think about is the US strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) which was created in response to the Arab oil embargo half a...
by Alicja Teagle | Jan 30, 2025 | Events
World Economic Forum – Davos 2025 Dave was at Davos, or to give it its correct title “the 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland”. The WEF Annual Meeting “convenes global leaders to address key global and regional...
by Alicja Teagle | Dec 19, 2024 | Writing
Witchcraft Or Mathematics, Apple’s New Encryption Tool Is Important Apple, boldly proclaiming that it believes privacy is a fundamental human right, has announced the use of “homomorphic encryption” in its products. This means that a client device (e.g., an iPhone)...
