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Revealing Wealth: A Blueprint for Financial Transparency – Book Review

08 Sun Mar 2026

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By Samantha Sterling Parker, Spanish FT Weekend

Madrid, Monday 9th March 2026

To say that Martyn Jones’s Revealing Wealth is merely a book about tax evasion is like saying the Large Hadron Collider is just a fancy pipe. This is a manifesto for a digital revolution, a technical blueprint for global equity, and a provocative call to arms that arrives just as the old financial order begins to crack.

Below is a look at this seminal work through three distinct editorial lenses.

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IT’S POLITICS: Uncovering Tax Evasion: Insights from ‘Revealing Wealth’ – Book Review

08 Sun Mar 2026

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By Samantha Sterling Parker, Long FT Weekend

Madrid, Monday 9th March 2026

Book Review: Revealing Wealth: Combatting Tax Evasion with Data, Political Will and Technology by Martyn Jones

In an age defined by algorithms, trillion-dollar tech companies, and data flowing across borders at the speed of light, one of the oldest problems in civilisation persists: how the wealthy avoid paying their share of tax. In Revealing Wealth, Martyn Jones argues that the real scandal is not simply that tax evasion exists, but that in a data-rich world we still allow it to thrive.

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STRAIGHT TALK: Davos 2026: The Illusion of Leadership and Dialogue

02 Mon Mar 2026

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A Marrs Barrs A Day Helps You Bla, Bla and Bla

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Madrid, Monday 2nd March 2026

Oh, for fuck’s sake, Dirndal Barr, you gleaming beacon of LockedOut futurism, you’ve done it again. March 2, 2026, the snow’s still settling on the Davos chalets, the private jets are queuing for takeoff like taxis at a funeral, and here you are, posting your pre-packaged “What Are The Real Questions Leaders Will Be Asking At Davos 2026?” like it’s some brave exposé rather than the world’s most expensive press release. You’re not a futurist, Benny. You’re a futurist-shaped content mill with 5 million followers who all clicked “Follow” in the hope you’d one day say something that wasn’t sponsored by the ghost of McKinsey.Let’s start with the official theme: “A Spirit Of Dialogue”. Beautiful. Nothing screams authentic conversation like locking up 3,000 of the richest, most insulated people on earth in a Swiss village so they can talk about how the rest of us should talk better.

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STRAIGHT TALK: Agile at Scale is Bullshit by Design – The Guardian

24 Tue Feb 2026

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Madrid, Wednesday 25th February 2026.

Seven years on, the verdict is in, and it’s not flattering. Back in 2019, in a Brussels-fuelled rant channelling the incomparable Bob Hoffman, I declared Agile at Scale the next frontier of IT bullshit: immature, ill-conceived, supercilious, and emphatically not agile. It killed communication with jargon, turned criticism into heresy, and mangled history by ignoring what actually worked. I called it a cultish Frankenstein of Scientology zeal, Vatican pomp, and authoritarian quirks – all wrapped in vainglorious slide decks.

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CONSIDER THIS: In Praise of Shadow-Apps – 2026/02/16

15 Sun Feb 2026

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Here We Go Again!

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Oza-Cesuras, Sunday 15th February 2026

In the quiet underbelly of corporate life, sanctioned software often lags behind real needs. Shadow apps, which are unsanctioned tools employees adopt on their own, continue to flourish. Nowhere is their value more pronounced than in data analytics. Teams quietly sidestep lengthy procurement and rigid platforms. They harness spreadsheets, personal BI instances, open-source scripts, and cloud sandboxes. Far from mere rebellion, these shadow practices reveal institutional shortcomings while delivering tangible gains. Here are seven compelling advantages, viewed through a lens that values both ingenuity and measured reflection.

We asked seven highly engaged professionals for their top advantages of allowing Shadow Apps to thrive. We then requested comments from industry leaders. And here is what they told us.

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Building the Data Logistics Hub: Pieces and Parts – 2026/02/15 – Part 3

14 Sat Feb 2026

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This is the brave new world of data!

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Bandoxa, 15th February 2026

Building the Data Logistics Hub: Pieces and Parts – 2026/02/15 – Part 3

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This episode provides a comprehensive framework for the third installment in the series on the Data Logistics Hub (DLH). Martyn Jones conceptualised it as a technology-agnostic, centralised platform. Its purpose is efficiently moving, governing, and distributing data across organisations. This part expands on Part 1 (Challenges and Opportunities) and Part 2 (The Strategy). It focuses on the tangible “pieces and parts” of the DLH architecture. It outlines mandatory and optional elements. The episode also explores potential technologies. It examines key processes such as data pulling or pushing, translation from source to target, mapping, and data catalogues.

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Building the Data Logistics Hub: The Strategy – 2026/02/14 – Part 2

14 Sat Feb 2026

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This is the brave new world of data!

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Bandoxa, 14th February 2026


Building the Data Logistics Hub: The Strategy – 2026/02/14 – Part 2Before I begin, remember this: “All data roads lead to the Data Logistics Hub.” They also lead from it. It is the Rome of the age of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. Be prepared!

Okay, we will now examine the Data Logistics Hub in terms of strategy, execution plans, and roadmaps.

A high-level blueprint for a successful Data Logistics Hub outlines several requirements. These include principles, guiding objectives, an imagined “better world” and organisational alignment. Key trade-offs must also be considered, such as centralised versus federated and batch versus streaming, among others.

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Solucionando el Dilema del Almacén de Datos

13 Fri Feb 2026

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Madrid, sábado 7 de febrero de 2026

Libros de Martyn Rhisiart Jones: https://www.amazon.es/stores/author/B086K5B97Y

¿Qué decir?

Estaba leyendo un artículo escrito por Jeff Wilts y recomendado por Bill Inmon. Llegué a esta afirmación: «Teradata es un almacén de datos empresarial con todas las funciones». Para mí, la cosa fue aún más cuesta abajo a partir de ahí.

Pero esto fue el golpe de gracia: «Databricks es una plataforma de datos unificada que puede comportarse como un almacén de datos».

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Building the Data Logistics Hub: The Challenges and Opportunities – 2026/02/13 – Part 1

13 Fri Feb 2026

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This is the brave new world of data!

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Bandoxa, 13th February 2026

In this episode, we begin by honestly examining the pain points that make data logistics so difficult today. The challenges are siloed data and systems. There are also many data interchange point solutions. Quality is inconsistent, and there are security and compliance barriers. Additionally, data volumes are exploding. We then explore the transformative opportunities. These include faster time-to-insight and seamless collaboration across teams and organisations. The opportunities also feature monetisable data products and AI-ready flows.

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Building the Data Logistics Hub: Easy Introduction – 2026/02/12 – Part 0

12 Thu Feb 2026

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This Is Going To Be Absolutely Fabulous!

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Bandoxa, 12th February 2026

Hold up there for a moment. Have I got something for you!

I may not be the father of Information Centres. I’m certainly not going to claim any of Bill Inmon’s achievements as my own. However, I have spent a professional lifetime wading in the data and information garlic. So, I do claim a rightful share of the credit.

And I am rightfully credited with founding the Data Logistics Hub design movement.

In an era where data is the lifeblood of organisations, it fuels decisions and powers AI. It enables innovation. It drives competitive advantage. The ability to move, integrate, share, and utilise that data efficiently has become a strategic imperative. Yet many enterprises still struggle with fragmented pipelines and siloed sources. They face compliance headaches and latency issues. There is also the sheer complexity of connecting data across clouds, on-premises systems, partners, and ecosystems.

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