Rich Turrin
Industry Leader in fintech and digital transformation
“China’s digital yuan is serving up a CBDC roadmap,” but look to Japan as well for leadership! The 🔥MUST SEE🔥 panel discussion video and a separate 🔥MUST READ🔥 article will explain why China and Japan are roadmaps! First, let me thank Global Government Fintech and editor Ian Hall for a beautiful article that highlights my …
This is a one-hour “truth bomb” on CBDC that will clarify many of your questions! Thank you to Tony Moroney, JB McCarthy and Paidi O’Reilly of the Digital Transformation Lab for the opportunity to talk about CBDC. Timestamp and a few poignant moments: If you watch nothing else….go immediately to 50:40 and listen to my …
Thank you to Timmy Shen from Forkast.news! What US Fed’s interest rate hike means for China and its CBDC Richard Turrin, a Shanghai-based fintech consultant, said that while the e-CNY is still only in use for domestic trials at present, he agrees that in the future any outflows that attempt to take advantage of rate …
FREE MUST-READ EBook: “Open Finance: Global Progress” is a country by country run down of open banking and finance efforts across the globe! Guess who wrote the section on China?! (Page 28) Read free or download with your email here: Open Finance: Global Progress I am delighted to have contributed my expertise on China to …
Posting on social media is at times a thankless job! Every once in a while I get a lovely compliment or win something that keeps me going! Here are two examples! First the NodeX Graph Gallery rated me a Top 10 on Twitter in the financial service sector! The graph represents a network of 1,024 …
Always love working with my friends at “The Financial Brand!” Here providing insight on CBDCs for two different articles Will 2022 Be the Year Crypto, Stablecoins and ‘CBDCs’ Take Off? Richard Turrin, an American financial consultant and author based in Shanghai, and the author of 2021’s Cashless: China’s Digital Currency Revolution, has not been …
Thank you to Vikram Gopal for this wonderful interview with India’s Business Standard! This is a beautifully produced video with a great transcript of the Q&A that can be found in the article below and more conveniently below the video: Business Standard article with Q&A transcription The breaks in the video correspond to the …
China’s new digital yuan or e-CNY App by the #PBOC earns 5 stars out of five in my review. Hey the new digital yuan app is simply wonderful, and it’s not just me saying it. The app scored a 4.4 out of 5 in China’s Apple app store! The question that needs to be answered …
Talking China’s digital yuan with Rui Ma on Tech Buzz China! This Live Cast was a real blast because Rui is a China expert and her questions were spot on! If you don’t listen to Tech Buzz you should. Listen to Rui’s observation and question at 16:45 it’s just PERFECT! My answer also shows why …
Thank you to Timmy Shen from Forkast.news! China’s e-CNY pilot to boost Hong Kong as offshore yuan trading center “The link between the e-CNY and HK’s FPS system provides our first example of how the e-CNY can be used to link retail payment systems,” Richard Turrin, a Shanghai-based fintech consultant who recently published “Cashless: China’s …
Delighted to contribute this article to the South China Morning Post. Link here: China’s digital yuan is not death knell for Alipay and WeChat Pay China’s digital payment market is big enough for the e-CNY, Alipay and WeChat Pay to survive and thrive alongside one another The digital currency will benefit from more visibility while …
Interest in China’s digital yuan peaked at the Olympics with much of the world taking a detailed look for the first time. As you can see from the different geographies represented by these articles, curiosity about the digital yuan was genuinely global. Let’s take a look at quotes I contributed to in leading publications. As …
China big tech’s “new normal” is no “Wild West” and those days are never coming back with the launch of China’s new “State Anti-Monopoly Bureau.” In this interview on CGTN Europe I talk about the goals of China’s new Anti-Monopoly Bureau which has now been upgraded to “Deputy Ministerial” status to ensure that it is …
The Caribbean used to be called “America’s backyard” now it’s China’s so don’t be surprised when they use the #digitalyuan! “The dollar is the largest currency used in trade there’s no question about it, but what we can question is whether the dollar is the easiest currency for developing currencies to access? The clear answer …
The Olympic games are upon us and China’s digital yuan is increasingly in the news. This is all part of the PBOC’s “coming out party” for the digital yuan. An attempt to win technological gold for being the first major country to launch a CBDC. It remains to be seen what the reaction to China’s …
Great honor to speak with Australia’s leading financial newspaper the Financial Review! There is a sense in Australia that a CBDC isn’t necessary. This may be true, but there is great concern that APRA is not factoring in the impact of regional CBDCs on trade. Richard Turrin, author of Cashless, China’s Digital Currency Revolution, …
Great discussing the recent launch of China’s new digital yuan app with Forkast.News! The app launched and promptly went number one in China’s app stores for about a week! This is a great vote of confidence for the new e-CNY. Still, there aren’t a lot of places to use the e-CNY so be patient for …
Great talk with Greg Canavan of Fat Tail Investment Research! Thank you Greg! In this episode, we discuss CBDC and crypto and I highlight how crypto tech is behind our current CBDCs. This has nothing to do with the price of Bitcoin or whether you love or hate crypto Acknowledging the debt is important because …
Onalytica is like the “Oscars” for fintech and I’m exceedingly proud to be a Top 100 voice in the community. Onalytica has been creating Top 100 Influencer lists for the past 10 years, connecting brands with influencer communities. The marketplace is now looking to understand who is influential beyond Twitter social amplifiers. Over recent years …
Fun podcast with Dr. Oriol Caudevilla who studies fintech, lives in Hong Kong and gets China! We had a very natural and flowing conversation that really was fun! I know you’ll enjoy it, I did! Note: audio quality gets better a few minutes in. Time stamp: 1:50 Why is Cashless your book relevant to someone …
There is a real cost to the sensational reporting of all things happening on China’s tech front. Front and center in the reporting is Ant Group and its Alipay subsidiary. It seems that not a day goes by without a headline claiming that China is nationalizing or destroying Ant. Frankly, what many of these headlines …
“Digital payment systems bring financial inclusion to those who have less, are unbanked, or underbanked.” I am grateful to @Dr. Diane Hamilton, for the opportunity to talk about Cashless on her nationally syndicated radio show “Take the Lead.” Diane is a behavioral expert, author, speaker and consultant and her background came shining through with the …
Very proud to have the last word in my favorite newspaper the Financial Times. Gillian Tett is the chair of the editorial board and a fabulous columnist. In a wonderful article that you really should read “Financial cartels face digital currency shake-up” Tett wrote: “It seems unlikely that CBDCs (or privately created digital tokens) will …
Asia is where its at! The center of gravity for financial innovation is moving to Asia with 7 of the top 10 CBDC projects in Asia. 14:14 Great interview with the Economic Times “ETMarkets Cryptomeet” where we talk about #CBDC and why it matters. Grateful to Sharat Chandra a real crypto guru, who asked all …
