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Digital payment infrastructure has multiple layers: the wholesale payment system, clearing and settlement mechanisms, and the user-facing service layer run by banks and non-bank payment service providers (PSPs).

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PM holds high-level talks on Bitcoin mining and asset tokenization

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New paper in Geoforum with Sabine Dörry and Ben Derudder:

"Preserving the obligatory passage point: SWIFT and the partial platformisation of global payments"

Full access until 30/05/2024, if you're into this sort of thing: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1ivNO_OL2Ant4

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Preprint of forthcoming chapter "SWIFT: Trusted infrastructure for infrastructures" with Sabine Dörry & Ben Derudder in the Cambridge Global Companion to Financial Infrastructures, by Carola Westermeier, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, & Barbara Brandl (eds).

https://researchgate.net/publication/379691304_SWIFT_Trusted_infrastructure_for_infrastructures

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I spent most of this Christmas reading this blog: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/

Absolutely fascinating deepdives into financial infrastructure, both legacy and new.

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Biweekly newsletter about intersection of tech and finance. Deep dives into the plumbing that moves money and the businesses that build those pipes.

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