040 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast

Transcript   As Corona chaos continues. Analysts are alert to the attractions of investing in the parish away from the leveraged financials. Meanwhile, Stephane Boujnah, is ready to bid for Borsa Milano; albeit, unless, the LSE are telling porkies, that's a leveraged windmill tilt.    My name is Patrick L Young Welcome to the bourse business weekly digest: It's the Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast.   Whoa. life begins at 40 episodes. It's the all new latest edition of the Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast and indeed we are 40 episodes young this Passover / Easter weekend.   And indeed Here we are on the cusp of Easter and it's only just under 50 days to go as I'm recording this podcast until Deutsche Boerse make their strategy announcement! Even better: after all those sleeps of the holiday period, IIt'll only be a month and a half to go before DB1 give us a clue as to their thinking for their futures strategy.    Of course, Passover began just the other day with the usual wine glasses which threatened to drown Zoom and similar audio visual networks. A virtual Seder is giving way to a virtual Easter. Already Nestle has cut the chocolate prices by 50% in Malta before we even reach the weekend. Thus, there will probably be more of myself pithing this podcast next week, even if the actual podcast remains of similar dimension.    As it's a slowdown in parish news, no Good Friday edition or Easter Monday edition of the Exchange Invest Weekly, but here we are on the weekend enjoying a review of the previous week's events.    Meanwhile, if you're looking for some reading during lockdown, if you're seeking inspiration in these hyper volatile times, or markets where career paths are often looking decidedly imprecise, I have a recommendation: if you're trying to get a handle on how technology is affecting life and markets, then there's a new book to help you.    20 years on from the excitement of the original FinTech, best seller Capital Market Revolution!, It's time to look at some of those loose strands hanging around which need a spot of perspective. Whether you're an exchange parishioner, a FinTech professional or anybody just trying to stay abreast of where technology is now driving investments and finance, "Victory or Death - Blockchain Cryptocurrency and the FinTech World," is an easy read, explaining the differing and diverging role of banks and exchanges, explaining the winning business models of the New World Order and placing in perspective just what Bitcoin blockchain and cryptocurrency means for markets. It's 70,000 words of pure play PLY pith, basically discussing matters of moment and revisiting the original trailblazing first FinTech best seller "Capital Market Revolution!" which when published in 1999, proved if I even say so myself, rather prescient. It's a binary world Ladies and gentlemen, your career will sustain or collapse in the new stages of the digital world: what's coming next? Hence the title "Victory or Death" - lest you need reminding of the exciting times for finance in which we are living.    Victory or Death is published by DV Books and is distributed by Ingram world wide.    While you're waiting for the book Don't forget to check into our YouTube channel IPO-VID, that's findable via IPO-VID: My initiative to help addled investors of all hues confused by recent market volatility. A series of daily brief pug side chats: we've just hit number 10. If you haven't had a chance already, these three to five minute discussions are well worth a listen over on YouTube.    So anyway, to this week's news: a couple of weeks back I highlighted the South China Morning Post for their excellent article "To trade or to halt? A vexing question in the tim...