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Beyond cash

The Covid-19 pandemic has upped the speed of digitisation of financial services Online lending, P2P transactions, mobile wallets, cryptocurrencies: fintechs are reshaping the industry Regulators will be the ultimate judges, balancing the benefits and risks of an increasingly cashless society

Retail investors strike back

Day trading platforms like Robinhood have attracted scores of new users this year… … contributing to a self-fulfilling rally in equities, but also greater polarisation and volatility History is not kind as to how such bubbles end – although the turning point may not be imminent