🖖Martin C. W. Walker🌷🌻

Article I wrote analysing performance of UK financial sector.

Two coins attempt to explain the “Fintech space” davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/202…

After over 3 hours and 20 minutes finally managed to escape from Westfield Stratford Car Park

@westfieldstrat Why is there no movement of cars out of the car park? Been waiting 50 minutes and none of the car have moved

@life_of_caz @westfieldstrat Hope Santa isn’t stuck in the queue otherwise no one is getting any presents this year

@MartinCWWalker @westfieldstrat We’re on the 7th floor! We might be home for Christmas!

@westfieldstrat One and half hours ago when the nightmare at Stratford Westfield began, people beeping their horns was a little annoying but now it at least provides the comfort that the people in other cars are still alive

@westfieldstrat Its only a matter of time before Deliveroo started delivering to the hundreds of stationary vehicles but then will the delivery riders ever be able to leave?

@FissionXYZ @business Not really

@business Capital markets are moving on-chain. The shift is happening fast. Don’t miss it. 🏛️

Tether Holdings expects close to $15 billion in profit this year, as the stablecoin issuer’s rapid growth continues to attract investors keen to back the closely-held company. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@izakaminska news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/william-the-co… In 1067 a year after the Norman Conquest the City got William the Conqueror to reconfirm their rights, not in Norman French, not in Latin but in Old English

If only there was a pre-existing example of a defiant community of natives who refused to give up their freedoms and privileges in the face of foreign conquerors - and who never gave up stamping the flag of St George on every lamppost and bollard in the territory they control 🤷‍♀️ [This is not an endorsement of the City of London FYI]

@izakaminska The more people have talked about market solutions for everything over the last 20 years the more genuine free markets seem to have receded.

What is more or less capitalistic? 1) The government openly buying 10% of a stock in a strategic autonomy sector that conventional market forces would otherwise wipe out. 2) A foreign government buying a significant stake in a strategic autonomy sector that conventional market forces would otherwise wipe out. 3) a nation’s central bank owning a small percentage of all the stocks in your market (as per the BoJ)? 4) a nation’s central bank injecting so much liquidity into the banking sector that no bank ever fails again (unless deemed unworthy of rescue for opaque and subjective reasons even as other banks are deemed worthy). 5) Boards sacrificing the interests of the broad shareholder base to pursue non-pecuniary ESG goals dictated to them by international bodies, often without shareholder approval? 6) Creating regulations that force your banks, pension funds and other non banks have to hold domestic government bonds? 7) Using the threat of regulation, windfall taxes, or fines - which would otherwise wipe out the companies in question - to make companies do the government’s bidding (regardless of whether it is in their commercial interest or not). 8) Providing seed financing or government contracts to startups with little to no operating track record on the basis they are run by persons with “close relations” to government insiders.

Despite optimistic government rhetoric, the UK’s financial services sector faces deep challenges. @MartinCWWalker explains what he sees in the official data blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview…

What is the real Bitcoin inflation rate? finextra.com/the-long-read/…

@danielsusskind @LSEpublicevents blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofboo….

Thank you for having me again, @LSEpublicevents. Great to be part of the festival. (And what a cool building ... )

@British_Airways Yes but please ask internally why you don’t have a reconcilation process between checked luggage and loaded luggage. It would save a lot of inconvenience for customers and save BA money

@MartinCWWalker We're sorry your bag was delayed, have you now been reunited with your belongings? Claire W

@British_Airways Why don’t you do a reconciliation of bags checked in versus bags loaded onto a plane? That way my Father’s Day would not have been ruined waiting at home all day for my missing luggage.

@British_Airways You have a system that logs luggage when checked in and a system that logs luggage as loaded. Why don’t reconcile the two lists and proactively identify missing luggage? It’s not technically hard. I checked on over two hours before the flight BTW. Luggage turned up 7:15pm

@MartinCWWalker Hi Martin, we're sorry you've been waiting in on Father's Day. A lot can change between the time when you check in your bag and the time it is loaded. It's probably something we can't do, but we are improving tracking bags to make sure they are on the flight. Raj

📅 @danielsusskind will be speaking in a panel event, Reimagining the way we work at 6.30pm on Thursday 19 June @LSEnews @LSEpublicevents for #LSEFestival 2025. Find details and register 👉lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Fes…

NEW✨ How can we find the right ideas for sustainable #EconomicGrowth? 🌱 Growth: A Reckoning by @danielsusskind @PenguinUKBooks @PenguinBooks reviewed by @MartinCWWalker 👇 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofboo…

@sama When will human intelligence be achieved?

i think we should stop arguing about what year AGI will arrive and start arguing about what year the first self-replicating spaceship will take off