We were on the road to a less cash society before COVID, but when governments and heath authorities started asking us to stop using cash and coins to prevent COVID spread and instead start tapping and swiping and retailers started enforcing it, there’s a huge cultural and economic shift right there.

Add to that the wild rise in values of cryptocurrencies, buy now pay later schemes, earn today get paid today possibilities and so much more and we have ourselves a brave new financial world.

In this week’s segment Hong Kong Radio 3’s Phil Whelan and I chat about all things Future of Money and Finance, explore what blockchain and cryptocurrencies are, what NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are, why Christies Auction house is about to sell Beeple the first NFT attached artwork and why its about to become the most important thing in asset protection.

Listen now to explore the many futures of Money and Finance (16 minutes 47 seconds).