#96 Richard Turrin – Life in China & Digital Currencies

Richard Turrin is the international best-selling author of Innovation Lab Excellence. He is an award-winning executive previously heading fintech teams at IBM, following a twenty-year career heading trading teams at global investment banks. Richard is now the author of Cashless: China's Digital Currency Revolution.⏺️ Voics: https://www.voics.co/🎙️ Podcast University: https://bit.ly/3Dqip2S🎤 Podcast Accelerator: https://bit.ly/3f1ir81📞 Schedule Free Call: https://bit.ly/3GsNyTU(00:00) Partnership: KS Media(01:42) Introduction(03:46) Richard Turrin's newsletter (05:00) What is life like living in Shanghai, China?  (06:00) How has China's zero covid policy been felt in China?  (10:05) Has there been police brutality & food shortages in China?  (13:55) Has media in the west caused more conflict with the east? (15:48) The rising inflation rate across the world today  (21:46) Will western tourists return to China after lockdowns? (26:25) Have central bank digital currencies (CBDC) become mainstream? (30:33) Will CBDC track a user's transactions online? (34:45) Why would someone want to use CBDC?  (40:10) The difference between CBDCs & Bitcoin(43:30) Coinbase & exchanges holding positions as collateral (47:10) The two biggest concerns in the crypto market(51:00) What are the risks of Terra Luna & stable coins? (56:20) What have you learned from crypto fraud issues? (59:40) Why will DeFi & TradFi combine in the future? (01:10:00) Where can people find you? Please leave a review:- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/36RrL9Y- Apple: https://apple.co/3uCwViFSocials:- YouTube: https://bit.ly/3HleVy2- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3EE3FuG- Apple: https://apple.co/32ArW7D- LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3FCS3JA- TikTok: https://bit.ly/314iZD6Services:- Career mentoring: https://bit.ly/3FCS3JA- Podcast consulting: https://bit.ly/3aYzm5w- Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3JqwSupport the show