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Is The Financial Industry Pointing Us To The Future Of Technology?

Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio broadcasting out of Montreal (home base). It’s not a long segment – about 5 to 10 minutes every week – about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly to SoundCloud, if you’re interested in hearing more of me blathering away. I’m really excited about this opportunity, because this is the radio station that I grew up on listening to, and it really is a fun treat to be invited to the Mornings Rock with Terry and Heather B. morning show. The segment is called, CTRL ALT Delete with Mitch Joel.

This week we discussed:

FinTech is disrupting the banking and lending business. Is it going to make your life that much easier?
60 Minutes had a big feature on FinTech last night: 60 Minutes – Shaking Up The Financial Industry.
On Wednesday, I’ll be taking part in a Canadian Marketing Association event featuring Don Tapscott. Tapscott is widely known for writing a book called the Digital Economy back in 1994. That’s when there wasn’t even a web browser. Since then, he has written countless bestselling books and advises the world’s biggest companies and governments on our digital world. Now, he’s back with another book, Blockchain Revolution (which he wrote with his son, Alex Tapscott). Blockchain is the technology behind bitcoin and many believe that Don and Alex are right: this is the next, big disruptive technology. So, what exactly is Blockchain?
Facebook‘s numbers are crazy amazing. Facebook added 60 million more users in the first three months of the year, according to its first-quarter earnings statement released last week. That means it now has 1.65 billion monthly active users, a 15% increase over the first quarter of 2015. Mobile users account for 1.51 billion of the total, a 21% year-over-year increase. Mobile revenue accounted for 82% of all ad sales, up from 73% in the first quarter of 2015. Facebook’s advertising revenue in the first three months of 2016 totalled $5.2 billion, a 57% increase over the same period last year. It also reported total revenue of $5.4 billion.
App of the week: Passport Parking.

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Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.