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Jeremy Light

Jeremy Light

Co-founder at pingNpay
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Bio Building pingNpay, web 3.0's next generation global micropayments network. Co-founder of Fourdotzero, a payments, market intelligence and technology company. Payments to fuel the Fourth Industrial Revolution Career History pingNpay September 2021 to present Fourdotzero November 2020 to present Ripple April 2018 - October 2020 Accenture until Feb 2018

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Open Banking

UK Open Banking Payments in 2024

09 Jan 2024

A year ago, I believed UK Open Banking payments were on a roll. Total payment initiations for 2022 were 68 million payments, an increase of 171% over 2021, showing a strong foundation for Open Banking. At this rate, I believed 1bn payments a year could be reached in 2025, a level where Open Banking would be firmly established in the UK payments la...

Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services

The Risks to Society of Central Bank Digital Currencies

17 Jan 2022

There is much written about CBDCs but little on the risks to society a CBDC would create. I see these risks falling into three categories: 1. economic 2. financial 3. human rights Economic Risks The key economic risk is inflation. A CBDC can be created at the press of a button and distributed widely, inflating the money supply without any correspon...

Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services

Bitcoin at 50,000 USD

18 Feb 2021

Bitcoin at 50k USD In March 2018 I posted a Finextra blog “Bitcoin at 50,000 USD”. It was framed as a scenario rather than a prediction and I observed that no-one could possibly know with any certainty what would happen next with Bitcoin. However, the objective of the blog was to examine what Bitcoin and the crypto landscape would look like should...

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The Payments Business

Big Brother is Watching You - Payment Systems, Surveillance Systems, Control Systems

29 Sep 2020

1230 words, 4:50 min read An Orwellian Dystopia As more and more payments become digital, a key question for payment systems architects is how to preserve the privacy of their users. Without privacy, payments systems risk becoming surveillance systems for government agencies and for corporations. In turn these can be extended into control systems ...

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Digital pound consultation: User privacy and access to cash key concerns

  This article omits to mention that there were 51,529 responses to the consultation of which 555 were from organisations through the online questionnaire. 40,330 were from individuals also through the online questionnaire. Presumably the remaining 10,644 responses by email and letter (41) were from individuals as well. These numbers are huge/off-the-scale for a government financial sector consultation - as a comparison the recent Garner Future of Payments Review attracted around 60 responses, mainly from organisations. Given the extraordinary number of responses from members of the public this looks as much a public petition as it is a consultation. Unfortunately, there is no breakdown of the responses to each question so it is impossible to know the weight of feedback nor the contrast between the views of Fintechs, academia etc on what they believe the public want versus the actual views expressed by the public in the individual responses. However, it clearly shows public concern on the 'digital pound' is running very high.

25 Jan 2024 Reply Read article

Citi unveils browser extension to help shoppers find online offers

  Interesting inititiative - browser extensions seem to be used increasingly by consumers, sufficiently so for Citi to launch this product. Good move.

24 Jan 2024 Reply Read article

UK MPs urge caution on creation of digital pound

  The Federal Reserve was formed in late 1913. Prior to that in the USA during the 19th century, first there were multiple forms of state bank notes, then multiple different national bank notes using a common design before Federal Reserve notes became the national standard in 1913. My point is that there is precedent for multiple forms of private money to be standardised over time through legislation.

05 Dec 2023 Reply Read article

UK MPs urge caution on creation of digital pound

  I published a LinkedIn article today with my cofounder at pingNpay arguing that CBDCs are more likely to follow a route of standardising private digital money such as fiat stablecoins that work in the market rather than centrally planned policy-driven initiatives seeing much success. There are precedents for this such as the USA in the 19th century where competing forms of private money were standardised nationally as Federal Reserve notes in 1913. With different forms of USD stablecoins – USDT, USDC, TUSD, BUSD, PYUSD etc it is possible hitsory might repeat itself in the USA and in the UK too if private GBP stableocins take-off. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7137192181659770880/

04 Dec 2023 Reply Read article