Few major headlines recently seem to be connected;

- #Greensill #Cameron #Softbank #Wirecard #Fintech
- #Bitcoin #Coinbase #Crypto #NFTs
- #Ant #JackMa #China #BeltandRoad
- New opportunities & Race to 'be first' in the new era
🇺🇸💪🇨🇳 💰🌏🌎🌍
- #GeoPolitics
- #disruption
🙄🤔
While lockdown has been slow for some, it's certainly not been for others who have smelt the winds of change!

#SPACs are bypassing Direct Listings & IPO's in a race to market - Sucking up all that 💰 hunting for returns 📈

#Fintech joining 'Democratise & Digitalise everything'
#China seem poised to become the worlds leading power - #US are on guard! 🧐

Little bit like their former communist friends (Russia) the leadership are getting their Oligarchs/Titans in-line & on-message before their potential big push.

Everything seems to be changing around us
The way money, information, data is used has changed.

How we consume media has changed massively

How we interact has also changed dramatically over the past few years

Global balance of power changing

Politics, Business and Tech have certainly driven lots of those changes...
First the social media landscape was built

We all piled in and populated it with our data

Then it was co-opted & used in politics

Arguably got Too big!

Now politicians are lobbying for tech/finance companies who use all that data (socials included) to profile & lend to us🙄
In this period of #disruption there's gonna be winners & losers

There will be more choppy waters ahead as this new reality takes shape

There will be grifters, opportunists, demagogues trying to snaffle riches/power

BUT

I think the future will be brighter & more equitable😉👍
So many headlines/stories in last 5 years about increasing volume/ease of money laundering & white collar crime;

- Capital Flight / Offshore
- Trade Based Money Laundering
- Sports washing
- Cryptocurrencies

Criminal & Legit worlds merge - Running amok!

economist.com/finance-and-ec…
This new world is exciting!

As it matures, it will bring a whole new 'safe' alternative & tradable asset class/currency🧮

In the short-medium term, it's full of loopholes & an absolute boon for nefarious characters
#NationStates #Hackers #MtGox #FinancialWeapon #Wirecard 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇺🇸
#DigitalYuan #Bitcoin #Libra #fintech

As we move toward a multipolar world 💰, who is going emerge as the financial 'safe haven'?
Or, is it going to be more distributed #DollarHegemony

#CurrencyInsurgency #AntGroup #JackMa #Alibaba fine!

Fun & Games before this shakes out!
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Footballs potential big issue, in plain sight! 👀

Every game you watch now features advertising for random Asian gambling co's

Clubs take that money in seeming blissful ignorance

Remember Wigan Athletics collapse?

FBI crack down on World Cup betting?

The problem is the unregulated nature of these Asian betting markets.

Dominated by Organised Crime

Links to propping up the North Korean regime

Ex Thai PM (Man City/Abu Dhabi)

Big clubs in Greece, Belgium etc

Great article/infographics 👇

For anyone interested (especially the @JosimarFotball team) have a read of the @aminterest article below

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The ramifications

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The tragic and dangerous spectre of Gun crime has brought this back into focus recently

This @BBCPanorama tries to give some historical context with some commentary from people with good knowledge
@MiloPete 📚 #DrugWars

Stops short of naming bosses tho!
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
#LiverpoolNarcos

This was a good series that got more into the detail and characters...

But still, the upper echelon not identified.

Who are they?

Big property developers?
Sports club owners?
Local businessmen?
Nightclub owners?

Untouchable?? 🚨

Gangsters have always had an affinity & often connection with sports stars

Kirk Bradley (mentioned in that @BBCPanorama ) was part of the gang who carried out grenade & firearms offences...

Remember grenade on Kenny Dalglish's wall?
Stevie G & headlines?
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*Goldfinger

*Golden Visas

*Golden opportunity for OCG's, spooks, middle-men, dodgy lawyers = Online payment processing 🌐

*Gold standard for fraud = offshore

*Gold smuggling/laundering

*Golden characters!

🪙🔥💰🏝🕵‍♀️💻⚖️🔄

Brinks Mat ⏩️ Wirecard

@FD @mrneilforsyth
There's a #Diamond geezer pioneer;

Crime, Money Laundering ⏩️ Payment processing fraud ⏩️ Crypto...

Patrick Diamond #Gold

See also;
*Gordon Parry
*Shaun P Murphy
*Michael Levine
*Mossack Fonseca
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#IsleOfMan #Valmet

#Menetap #ATB #Valmet #Samuelson #Browder #Dart #Khodokovsky #Abramovich #Berezovsky

#FBI Most wanted #Mogilievich & ⏩#Kinahan 🔁

👀💸
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Stevie G's daughter dating son of reputed #Kinahan Cartel gang boss...

👇

dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/…
Stevie G hanging out with reputed #Kinahan Cartel gang boss

Troy Parrott, Dele Ali, Mathew Macklin, Tyson Fury - Many more...

All mixing with reputed high profile criminals!

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#RobertMaxwell

Look forward to catching up on this @BBCiPlayer

His legacy lives on in so many ways (most nefarious)!

His dealings were never really understood by the wider public when he was alive - So much has come out posthumously☠️

@MattyStu77 @sisu_sanity #Derby #OUFC
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