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The Asian Countries That Actually Need A CBDC
At the recent Singapore Fintech Festival, the city-state’s announcement that it would pursue a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot next year was big…
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How East Asia Is Dealing With Greenwashing
With the surge in popularity of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, it has become more important than ever to…
The Banking Crisis Has Only Just Begun
OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FINTECH SNARK TANK In an article titled Is the Banking Crisis Over? We Are About to Find…
Number Of ATMs Falling, Number Of Reverse ATMs Rising
America had 470,000 ATMs (the machines where you put in a card to get out some cash) when their numbers…
KENYA PRESIDENT RUTO’S CALL FOR A NEW GREEN GLOBAL BANK
The Bridgetown Initiative, spearheaded by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been essential in pointing out the shortfalls of the…
XRP Sales In Secondary Markets May Still Be The Sale Of Securities
US District Judge Analisa Torres in New York ruled on Thursday that Ripple Labs Inc. sales of the XRP XRP…
Finastra Launches Cloud-Based Payments Hub Ready For FedNow
Finastra, a global fintech company, will offer the FedNow connectivity through its cloud-based payments hub, called Payments to Go, and…
Supercharging Insurance Through AI
Rooted in a rich legacy of safeguarding people's wellbeing, the insurance sector has long been plagued by archaic systems, tracing…
New Credit Card Regulations Will Hurt Consumers And Small Business
OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FINTECH SNARK TANK Proposed government regulations would change how credit card payments are processed, impacting how much…
Visa Acquired Pismo For $1 Billion, Highlighting Fintech Renaissance In Emerging Markets
Innovation has globalized. Over 100 startup ecosystems have spawned a unicorn (and this is rising fast). Many of these are…
Twitter To Disrupt Financial Services Alongside Big Tech Rivals
One look at the latest headlines surrounding Twitter, and you might think the Meta Threads launch (boasting 30 million sign-ups…
Big Financial Institutions Are Adopting Crypto And Blockchain — What Does The Technology Offer SMBs?
On June 15, BlackRock BLK announced it had filed an SEC application for a bitcoin spot ETF, which was followed…
Brazil’s Nubank Is Leaving U.S. Digital Banks In The Dust
David Vélez has built an $8 billion fortune turning nearly half of Brazil’s adults into users of his credit card,…
Parsing Ant Group’s Fortunes In Asia
One has to give Ant Group credit: Despite the bruising tech crackdown it has endured at home, it has not…
How Fintech Startups Can Secure Their Payment Systems
Startup success is never a foregone conclusion - with a current 90% failure rate it’s actually quite the opposite, despite…
New UK Approach To Financial Service Regulation Demands ChatGPT
The Duty Of Care One of the reasons why I think AI-to-AI connections are the only way to make this…
Coke Or Pepsi? Most Of Coke’s Shareholders Don’t Care
It is a fair assumption that the CEO of Coca-Cola KO would like to beat PepsiCo in every way imaginable.…
PayPal Chime New Checking Accounts Bank of America Wells Fargo
OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FINTECH SNARK TANK A new study from Cornerstone Advisors, looking at who Americans open checking accounts with,…
In-App, Instant, In-Store Payments Incoming
The FIS FIS Global Payments Report 2023 has some findings that confirmed some of my suspicions about the direction of…