APPLE FINTECH STRATEGY MAP (CBINSIGHTS)
An article from CBInsights showing the emerging scale of APPLE in payments and the challenges it will present for incumbent players.
APPLE FINTECH STRATEGY MAP (CBINSIGHTS) Read More »
An article from CBInsights showing the emerging scale of APPLE in payments and the challenges it will present for incumbent players.
APPLE FINTECH STRATEGY MAP (CBINSIGHTS) Read More »
The Embedded Insurance Strategy” is a global survey of 2,000 consumers and 200 finance leaders.
A link to the telecom Orange’s description of Orange Money, an early mobile money wallet first popular in Africa.
PROFILE OF ORANGE MONEY Read More »
A link to MTN, the telecom company active in Africa, and its description of its MTN Mobile money product.
PROFILE OF MTN MOBILE (MTN.COM) Read More »
A link to a profile of Tigo Money, The Latin American telecom company Tigo’s mobile wallet solution.
PROFILE OF TIGO MONEY Read More »
A link to the World Bank’s global financial inclusion database where searches for various demographic and economic measures of financial inclusion can be filtered by country and region.
WORLD BANK GLOBAL FINANCIAL INCLUSION DATABASE Read More »
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 »
In this publicly available report from Redseer Strategy Consulting, it is estimated that 85% of businesses in India will be digitally enabled by FY26. This means that a large majority of businesses in India will have embraced digital technologies and processes for their operations.
THE FUTURE OF INDIA’S DIGITAL PAYMENT Read More »
A link to a McKinsey report describing the evolution of Kenya’s M-Pesa’s mobile wallet, among the world’s first mobile money solutions, and its important role in promoting financial inclusion. Subsequently, lessons from M-Pesa were applied globally.
DRIVEN BY PURPOSE: FIFTEEN YEARS OF MPESA EVOLUTION Read More »