New Money Review https://newmoneyreview.com/ A periodical covering the accelerating changes in money Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:29:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://newmoneyreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-favicon-32x32.jpg New Money Review https://newmoneyreview.com/ 32 32 A periodical covering the accelerating changes in money New Money Review false New Money Review podcast A periodical covering the accelerating changes in money New Money Review https://beta.newmoneyreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/new_money_review_podcast-mpu.jpg https://newmoneyreview.com 174986703 We have to choose between free market capitalism and democracy https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2026/04/03/we-have-to-choose-between-free-market-capitalism-and-democracy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-have-to-choose-between-free-market-capitalism-and-democracy Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:19:55 +0000 https://newmoneyreview.com/?p=7658 In the latest New Money Review podcast, I interview Mordecai Kurz, Joan Kenney professor of economics emeritus at Stanford University. Kurz, the author of “Private Power and Democracy’s Decline“, to […]

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]]> 7658 Unseen Money 16—synthetic identity fraud https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2026/01/26/unseen-money-16-synthetic-identity-fraud/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unseen-money-16-synthetic-identity-fraud Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:10:27 +0000 https://newmoneyreview.com/?p=7653 In the latest episode of Unseen Money, Timur Yunusov helps Paul Amery unravel a strange real-life story involving the delivery by DPD of a non-existent eBay purchase, Paul’s phone number […]

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]]> 7653 US banks are exposed to a fake ID crimewave https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2026/01/21/us-banks-are-exposed-to-a-fake-id-crimewave/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-banks-are-exposed-to-a-fake-id-crimewave Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:22:09 +0000 https://newmoneyreview.com/?p=7647 Criminals are weaponising artificial intelligence (AI) to create millions of fake bank accounts, used in money laundering, sanctions evasion and fraud. US financial institutions are most exposed to this fake […]

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]]> 7647 Unseen Money 15—Why passkeys won’t take off https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2025/12/01/unseen-money-15-why-passkeys-wont-take-off/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unseen-money-15-why-passkeys-wont-take-off Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:48:01 +0000 https://newmoneyreview.com/?p=7641 Tech firms and governments are pushing passkeys as a replacement for online passwords. They argue that using passkeys will help cut down on fraud, prevent account takeovers and protect against […]

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]]> 7641 Unseen Money 14—the AI malware threat https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2025/11/13/unseen-money-14-the-ai-malware-threat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unseen-money-14-the-ai-malware-threat Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:08:05 +0000 https://newmoneyreview.com/?p=7634 Last week, Google’s threat intelligence group warned that artificial intelligence (AI) is making malware attacks more dangerous. [Malware is malicious software—programmes designed to disrupt, damage or gain unauthorised access to […]

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]]> 7634 The rise of techno-fascism https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2025/10/27/the-rise-of-techno-fascism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-rise-of-techno-fascism Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:05:52 +0000 https://newmoneyreview.com/?p=7629 Some people have labelled the recent alliance between Silicon Valley and right-wing populist leaders “techno-fascism”. Is that too strong a term? No, says Jacob Silverman in the latest New Money […]

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]]> 7629 Unseen Money 13—Washing the proceeds in cyberspace https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2025/07/15/unseen-money-13-washing-the-proceeds-in-cyberspace/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unseen-money-13-washing-the-proceeds-in-cyberspace Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:46:50 +0000 https://newmoneyreview.com/?p=7622 Long gone are the days when the Escobar family had to spend $2,500 a month on rubber bands to hold the cash they earned trading cocaine. Now, the invention of […]

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]]> 7622 Unseen Money 12: Keeping hackers out of your DeFi wallet https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2025/07/15/unseen-money-12-keeping-hackers-out-of-your-defi-wallet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unseen-money-12-keeping-hackers-out-of-your-defi-wallet Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:43:16 +0000 https://newmoneyreview.com/?p=7620 The decentralised finance (DeFi) market is booming—but the world’s best hackers are on a constant look-out for ways to steal your crypto tokens. North Korea, which recently committed the largest […]

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]]> 7620 Unseen Money 11—a bad bird on your wire https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2025/05/19/unseen-money-11-a-bad-bird-on-your-wire/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unseen-money-11-a-bad-bird-on-your-wire Mon, 19 May 2025 16:40:49 +0000 https://newmoneyreview.com/?p=7617 Most scams where the victim is tricked into paying money to fraudsters originate on social media—often on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. But in the UK around one scam in five—and […]

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]]> 7617 Unseen Money 10: The UK—open for (dodgy) business https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2025/05/01/unseen-money-10-the-uk-open-for-dodgy-business/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unseen-money-10-the-uk-open-for-dodgy-business Thu, 01 May 2025 07:36:34 +0000 https://newmoneyreview.com/?p=7613 The UK’s company formation process is fast, easy and cheap. The net result of being open to almost any business is that up to half the companies on the UK’s […]

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