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Agile Banking Talk

Published June 25, 2009

I gave my talk earlier today at Reboot 11 about refactoring the banking system.

The slides are on SlideShare: Agile Banking

Anyway I’m interested in any comments.

Read my 5 part blog series based on this presenation here

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Pelle Braendgaard

My name is Pelle Braendgaard. Pronounce it like Pelé the footballer, no relation. CEO of Notabene where we are redefining payments from first principles for a stablecoin world with Notabene Flow.

This is an old blog of mine, which was not about crypto staking but about staking out territory in this new economy.

I write often about Stablecoins and Payments at my substack OpenStable

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