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Gavin Brown
Senior Lecturer, Finance, Manchester Metropolitan University
Gavin holds both a Bachelors and MSc degree in Business Management as well as an MBA from the University of Oxford (Said Business School) where he was a Dean's List member. He qualified as an ACA (ICAEW) chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers (Manchester) in 2006 and went on to work at Merrill Lynch (London) before setting up a hedge fund in 2008. He also holds the Investment Management Certificate (IMC) and PG Cert (Education) qualifications and is currently a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level III June 2018 candidate.
Gavin is also a Fellow of the HEA and he is reading towards a PhD in Financial Economics focusing on dual listed arbitrage and price distortion caused by financial instruments with Keele University.
He joined MMU as a Senior Lecturer in 2012 where his teaching interests include corporate finance and financial economics at both UG & PG levels.
Gavin was appointed Fellow (FCA) of the ICAEW effective from 1 November 2016. This is the highest status of membership.
Gavin teaches investment banks and he is also a Director and Co-founder of a start-up cryptocurrency hedge fund.
Gavin specialises in FinTech, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain technology. He is also an educational and corporate strategist.
His specialist professional accounting papers include; ACCA P4 and F9, ICAEW FM, BS, B&F, Case Study and SBM along with CIMA F3, E3 and BA1.
Gavin is happily married, has four children and an Irish Setter dog named 'Molly'. He enjoys, walking playing golf, CAMRA and sailing.
What Elon Musk's bitcoin U-turn means for the future of crypto
May 16, 2021 11:29 am UTC| Digital Currency Investing
Teslas relationship with cryptocurrencies has been a stop-start rollercoaster. In February, the electric vehicle manufacturer announced it had purchased US$1.5 billion (1.1 billion) of bitcoin and planned to accept the...
Bitcoin: why a wave of huge companies like Tesla rushing in could derail the stock market
Feb 12, 2021 08:04 am UTC| Technology Digital Currency
After Tesla announced it has invested US$1.5 billion in bitcoin and expects to start accepting the cryptocurrency as a payment for its electric vehicles in the near future, the bitcoin price went soaring. It went from...
Altcoin season 2.0: why bitcoin has been outgunned by crypto rivals since new year
Feb 25, 2020 13:32 pm UTC| Insights & Views Digital Currency
When bitcoin was trading at the dizzying heights of almost US$20,000 (15,360) in December 2017, it was the peak of the previous bull run in cryptocurrencies. It was a classic bubble, in line with the work on such phenomena...
Bitcoin's threat to the global financial system is probably at an end
Jan 06, 2020 17:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Digital Currency
2020 could well be the year that the cryptocurrency dream dies. This is not to say that cryptocurrencies will die altogether far from it. But to all the financial romantics who have cheered the rise of bitcoin and other...
More than 1,000 cryptocurrencies have already failed – here's what will affect successes in future
Nov 24, 2019 14:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Digital Currency Business
Many cryptocurrencies have been launched in the past few years, often to great fanfare and celebration, only to fade and fail as the public and investors shun them. According to Coinopsy, which tracks such failures, there...
Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency can still take off and revolutionise money
Oct 20, 2019 10:29 am UTC| Technology Insights & Views Digital Currency
Facebooks Libra cryptocurrency has suffered a few setbacks recently. As well as facing pressure from global regulators, seven of its 28 founding members have left the project including high profile firms PayPal, Visa,...
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