‘I can’t pay for anything’: 10-hour blackout exposes risk-taking Revolut
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/31/i-cant-pay-for-anything-10-hour-blackout-exposes-revolut/
A technical snag shows the fintech has a long way to go to compete with the high street banks.
It’s time to prepare the back-up economy
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/31/its-time-to-prepare-the-back-up-economy/
This perhaps is the real problem. We have spent decades optimizing the economy for frictionless connectivity and dismantling analogue systems, only to discover that friction may be precisely what makes systems secure. It’s hard to imagine a more literal illustration of Chesterton’s fence: the principle that we should never tear down a barrier before understanding why it was erected in the first place.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/31/i-cant-pay-for-anything-10-hour-blackout-exposes-revolut/
A technical snag shows the fintech has a long way to go to compete with the high street banks.
It’s time to prepare the back-up economy
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/31/its-time-to-prepare-the-back-up-economy/
This perhaps is the real problem. We have spent decades optimizing the economy for frictionless connectivity and dismantling analogue systems, only to discover that friction may be precisely what makes systems secure. It’s hard to imagine a more literal illustration of Chesterton’s fence: the principle that we should never tear down a barrier before understanding why it was erected in the first place.