Episode 125: Interview with the Oracle of Payments & Identity: David Birch

Episode 125

In this week's episode of Around The Coin, Faisal Khan interviews the Oracle of Payments & Identity, David Birch. Dave is truly multi-talented, he is the author of "Identity is the New Money", which was his book that came out in 2014. He's a public speaker, world traveler, and needless to say a consultant in the payments space and works with Consult Hyperion. We discuss the importance of identity and where it is heading with respect to payments. In our pre-show discussion, David hinted about the new book he is writing so we will have him say a few words about that as well.

About David Birch

David G.W Birch is Director of Innovation at Consult Hyperion, the secure electronic transactions consultancy, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey Business School. In addition he holds non-executive positions in both public and private sectors.

An internationally-recognised thought leader in digital identity and digital money, he was named one of the global top 15 favourite sources of business information by Wired magazine and one of the top ten most influential voices in banking by Financial Brand; was found by PR Daily to be one of the top ten Twitter accounts followed by innovators, along with Bill Gates and Richard Branson; was ranked in the top three most influential people in London’s FinTech community in the top five global thought leaders in identity; was listed by Hot Topics as one of the world’s top 100 most influential FinTech leaders and was rated Europe’s most influential commentator on emerging payments by Total Payments.

In the London Review of Books his Identity is the New Money was called fresh, original, wide-ranging and “the best book on general issues around new forms of money". His new book "Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From money we understand to money that understand us" will be published in the Spring.Our Speakers in this week’s episode:

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Host: Faisal Khan

Guest: David Birch

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