UAE Tech Podcast: Dubai Financial Services Authority on FinTech, RegTech & Innovation

UAE Tech Podcast: Dubai Financial Services Authority on FinTech, RegTech & Innovation

If you've been tuning in, you'll have noticed that FINTECH is a recurring theme in discussions on the UAE Tech podcast. It's receiving significant VC investment across the region, often with little fanfare. From physical cash to digital 1's and 0's, how we receive, send, invest and spend money is critical to, well, pretty much everything. There are two arguments about the nature of the changes taking place across financial institutions.

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The first is a ‘cyberutopian' argument - centralised banks, guys in suits and the old players of the 20th century are fading away. The future is blockchain and crypto powered; it's more free. You can hear this argument eloquently put by John McAfee in our first episode. It's a compelling vision of the future which connects back to the original