Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Financial Services

  • While the British government, among other across the globe, is putting its faith in an autonomous vehicle future, consumers are maintaining a certain degree of opposition to this technology. Southampton University reported in September 2017 that it had joined forces with comprethemarket.com to future-gaze, and they found that 73% of Brits oppose driverless cars because…

  • Electroneum CEO Richard Ells talks with Financial Journalist Graham Jarvis . View the YouTube footage of 23rd of February 2018 here.  

  • The second in a series of talking heads with Richard Ells, CEO of Electroneum. Richard sat down with Graham Jarvis to discuss Electroneum, blockchain and the future of cryptocurrency. In this second part he outlines the difference in Electroneum’s strategy and what we hope to achieve. First broadcast on YouTube and on Electroneum's website on…

  • In the first in a series of talking heads, Richard sat down with Graham Jarvis to discuss Electroneum, blockchain and the future of cryptocurrency. In this first part he outlines the concept behind the mobile miner and what impact it could have. Watch the interview to find out more. Broadcast on 2nd February 2018. 

  • “The times they are a-changin’”, and with the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) in all industrial sectors, including financial services, the words of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan are certainly coming true. Attracta Mooney, an asset management reporter for the Financial Times, points out in her article of 20th January 2017 that over the past 3 decades the…

  • Looming on the horizon for failing to comply is a dark cloud of significant financial penalties. “…Even if a blockchain or DLT-based system could ensure that data is kept private, and it is doubtful whether such a system can do so as they rely on any participant being able to validate any previous transaction in…

  • Data privacy is driving the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in the UK, and yet it’s widely felt that banks and other financial services institutions have run out of time to find ways to comply with the requirements. Looming on the horizon for failing to comply is a dark cloud of significant financial…

  • “By January 2018 banks must comply with the EU’s second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), intended to improve online payment protection, encourage payment services innovation, and make cross-border payments safer. We’re finally entering the modern age of payments and it’s happening because the regulators are forcing digital transformation through changes such as PSD2, which affects every…

  • Simon French, Panmure Gordon’s chief economist, describes the repeal of Dodd Frank as beggar-thy-neighbour economics because the relaxing of Dodd Frank would only benefit the US at the expense of other countries. He argues that it means that British and European banks have to face the prospect that their marginal costs will increase if they…

  • In contrast to Salmony’s personal viewpoint I think that blockchain technology will likely, maybe, or possibly change the world. It will revolutionise the financial systems overnight, taking away the need for the slow incumbent banks and their stuffy 300 year old way of doing things. For anyone that has been in the IT industry for…