Archive - The J.DB Report

Trading the US all night long

Asian retail investors are becoming a force in US stock markets, a precursor to the US itself becoming a market that trades more like crypto.

May 15 • Jame DiBiasio

Rewiring finance for AI, with Ned Lowe

How profound will agentic transformation be on financial institutions – and on the fintechs in their wake?

May 12 • Jame DiBiasio

31:10

Beyond Hong Kong's eMPF

Hong Kong's digital upgrade to its retirement system needs to become broader financial infrastructure.

May 7 • Jame DiBiasio

Nature financial risks, with Megan Pillsbury

ESG may be politically kaput, but neither the risks from companies' ecological impact nor the competitive opportunities have gone away.

May 5 • Jame DiBiasio

28:50

April 2026

Thailand's fintech moment

Open banking could lead to the kind of independence and scale that has eluded most Thai fintech companies.

Apr 28 • Jame DiBiasio

Open finance hub, with Jonathan Holman

The UAE's central bank embarks on an ambitious effort to create a hub for data sharing across financial services.

Apr 23 • Jame DiBiasio

34:09

To Aave and to Aave not

DeFi faces a reckoning as a leading lending protocol gets drained.

Apr 21 • Jame DiBiasio

New international corridors in fintech, with Max Plank, Tenity

How one VC is connecting Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, and Hong Kong across the new infrastructure of digital assets.

Apr 17 • Jame DiBiasio

31:35

Tokenization: open or closed?

Canton Network and Ethereum serve different rails for RWA tokenization, but when does choice become a liquidity problem?

Apr 16 • Jame DiBiasio

Payments when the lights go out

Joachim Samuelsson of CrunchFish discusses different ideas to support digital cash, offline.

Apr 10 • Jame DiBiasio

34:02

Mythos reveals banks are vaulting...bugs

The new frontier of AI is about to unzip everyone’s software vulnerabilities. How should banks, fintechs, and protocols prepare?

Apr 9 • Jame DiBiasio

De-dollarization debate: Barry Eichengreen's "Money Beyond Borders"

Barry Eichengreen provides a definitive account of international currency regimes, from ancient Athens to today's budding competition between Beijing…

Apr 7 • Jame DiBiasio

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