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David Birch provides content, advice and commentary on the rapidly changing world of digital financial services. Read his articles below.
Money 20/20 Asia: Money in the Metaverse book launch
Money in the Metaverse book launch Wow! What a week at Money 20/20 Asia in Bangkok where co-author, Victoria Richardson, and I launched our new book: Money in the Metaverse - Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real...
Spring Conference Season 2024!
Wow what a busy few weeks for David Birch for the Spring Conference Season 2024 which has seen Dave’s feet barely touch the ground with back to back events for 4 weeks and there’s still a week of the season to go!
Podcast: CBDCs & The Metaverse
This week, David Birch was invited onto the titc.io podcast to chat with Founder, Darren Franks. The two discuss the concept of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), electronic money…
Digital Pound Foundation Anniversary
Digital Pound Foundation 2nd Anniversary Event Last week, David Birch was in London helping the Digital Pound Foundation celebrate their 2nd anniversary at the CMS London Office. The venue was packed and it was a fantastic success! David Birch kicked the event off...
Future of Money Design Awards 2024
Future of Money Design Awards 2024 Pleased to announce…. This years Future of Money Design Awards! The awards this year are kindly sponsored by Moneyhub and Supported by Sheffield Hallam University. David Birch is happy to have been involved again this year! The brief...
Journal of Digital Banking
David Birch who started the week with an article being published in the latest Journal of Digital Banking, then moderated an event for his good friends over at Modulr and went onto attend the FT’s latest Crypto and Digital Asset Summit with his peers at the Qatar Centre For Global Banking and Finance.
BBC Radio 4: AntiSocial – Digital Pound
Last week, David Birch had a fun trip into Westminster when he was invited to take part in a live discussion on BBC Radio 4 about the digital pound.
The Future of Digital Trust
This week, David Birch took part in an eye-opening discussion on the future of Digital Trust and Identity Authentication. Dave chatted with Rob Woods of LexisNexis Risk Solutions for this exclusive session on the Identity Trust Pulse podcast series!
Apple Launches ‘Connected Cards’ Using Open Banking In The UK
Connected Cards: The upcoming Apple iOS 17.1 developer beta shows the first services for the new iPhone Wallet app powered by the U.K.’s Open Banking API. However, Apple is launching this feature exclusively in the U.K. due to the existence of an interoperable open banking standard in the country”.
Money 20/20 USA
Money 20/20 USA: Las Vegas This year's Money 20/20 USA in Las Vegas was another huge success. With a packed agenda and wearing all his different hats, David Birch has had a busy week: Panel 1: Perception vs. Reality in Cross-Border Payments: Who Wins the Future?...
Biometrics Institute Congress
This week, David Birch put on his tuxedo for a second time this year (normally this honour is reserved only for the Pay360 Awards!) to deliver a presentation to the Biometrics Institute Congress 2023 entitled ‘: 007 we know you are coming!’
Pay360 Awards
Pay360 Awards Last night, David Birch attended the Pay360 Awards hosted by The Payments Association. This annual black tie event held at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House on Park Lane, London was attended by over 950 of the senior executives from across the payments...
European Tour: Payments, CBDC & Metamoney
European Tour It's been a very busy week for David Birch as he's been on a European tour stopping in Rotterdam to talk payments, Brussels to talk CBDC as well as money in the Metaverse and Amsterdam to chat crypto and CBDC! Rotterdam The first stop on this week's...
Identity, Fraud and the Rise of the Bots
Brad Carr sits down with our very own David Birch to chat about the role of Digital Identity in countering fraud and scams, the future of identity wallets, the rise of bots, and so much more.
Digital Identity Tour Down Under Pt 2
Continuing his Digital Identity Tour Down Under, Dave Birch has been busy delivering education sessions, speeches and taking part in panels all over Sydney for eager audiences looking to learn from the experiences around the globe that Dave can shed light on…
Identity’s Changing Landscape
David Birch has continued his tour with a trip to Auckland, New Zealand to continue his discussions about Identity’s changing landscape.
Digital Identity Tour Down Under
David Birch travelled down under this week for the month of August to start his Digital Identity Tour! In a time of increasing concern about security and a changing regulatory and technology landscape there will be some great learnings combined with touch of charm and sprinkle of humour too.
2FA: Thanks Mr. Musk, Now I Have More Security
Twitter has been in the news again recently, and this time because of security. The company announced that it will only allow its users to secure their accounts with SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) if they pay for a Twitter Blue subscription.
Digiseq Updates
Digiseq wearables - bulk enablement is here! European and UK (Mastercard) issuer banks can now enable the DIGISEQ wallet to bring tokenised wearable payments to all their customers with Digiseq bulk enablement. This can be enabled very quickly and at no cost to the...
New Speaker Showreel
New Speaker Showreel After many months of putting content together, David Birch's new speaker showreel is finally here! Watch now: David Birch is an expert in his field and an accomplished speaker who not only delivers outstanding opening or closing keynotes but also...
Podcast: Exploring the Possibilities of Wearables for Payments
Exploring the Possibilities of Wearables for Payments Efi Pylarinou (B2B Global Fintech & Tech Influencer) invited David Birch to join her on her podcast last month. They had a captivating conversation delving into the emerging world of wearables for payments 🚀...