A short post announcing the US Federal Reserve’s plans to supervise crypto, neo-banks, banking-as-a-service, and other emerging areas more closely.
A slide showing the developments in fintech that attract regulatory interest.
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A video explaining how the Paysend money transfer service works. Paysend is a financial technology platform headquartered in the UK that enables any bank card (Visa or MasterCard) to send and receive money worldwide.
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A brief article explaining how PayPal issuing its own stablecoin legitimizes payments moving on chain is another step towards mass adoption.
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This slide shows the rise of social commerce, or payments through social media, in terms of the e-commerce value chain, games as an example, and the shoppable content value chain. This was adopted from a publicly available Linkedin post.
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This brief, adapted from a publicly available Linkedin post by Panagiotis Kriaris, discusses how social media has changed the way we communicate and interact, and has begun to change the way we shop online, on-site, and often through digital wallets.
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This brief explores how social media offer a means of sending or received money through proprietary apps or apps like Venmo or Google Wallet. The pros and cons are discussed.
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FedNow’s promise of faster payments is not new. Aside from RTP and same-day ACH, we have seen faster payments in a number of forms: closed-loop P2P payments (Venmo, Zelle), wire transfers, stablecoins, and push-to-card. Each varies in settlement type, rail, limit, cost, push/pull capabilities, and transaction limits. This has created an ecosystem where U.S. money movement has become unnecessarily complex. In this white paper by Bessemer Venture Partners they explain that they expect to see more payment-first business models, and a new wave of fraud, and infrastructure to facilitate the patchwork of faster payments in the US.
HOW FEDNOW AND FASTER PAYMENTS WILL IMPACT US FINTECH Read More »
This article uses data froma leading Chinese provider to show that ‘buy now, pay later (BNPL)’ dominates e-wallet transactions and expands fintech credit to underserved consumers.’
OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF DIGITAL WALLETS AND DEMYSTIFYING ‘BUY NOW, PAY LATER’ Read More »
Celent/Plaid white paper on Open Finance.
LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR AN OPEN FINANCE FUTURE Read More »