This week’s blog discussions included …The importance of financial literacy“When I was a lad, I got four shillings and sixpence every week for pocket money.” “Luxury! I was whipped in two by my dad and lived in a shoebox by the motorway!” says my friend. OK, enough revival of old Monty Python sketches, but …It’s not FinTech vs Bank or CBDC vs CryptoI’ve seen a lot of discussions of adversaries. It’s FinTech versus Bank, central bank currencies versus decentralised currencies. My father used to read books as a kid, and the books would entertain him and come life in his head.

Source: The Guardian December 19, 2021 07:40 UTC