About the modern financial infrastructure that the world sits atop of.

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Recent editions of BAM

Debanking (and Debunking?)

Crypto advocates kicked off a recent, somewhat politicized, discussion of debanking. Strap in for scintillating banking compliance trivia.

Fiction and Finance

Recommendations of works of fiction of interest to financial practitioners or enthusiasts.

Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard

Regulation-induced monocultures meet unfortunate but explicable engineering decisions.

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