The high level of interest and curiosity by users and corporations is rising – no doubt, but let us create some understanding of what exactly the metaverse is. As Dr.Martha Boeckenfeld mentions, if you put […]

Fintech Portabl announced the closing of a $2.5 million seed round recently led by Harlem Capital Partners. Portabl, founded by Nate Soffio and Alex Yenkalov, also launches its beta today for institutional use. It provides […]

Marion Labouré shares 5 key insights from her new book with co-author Nicholas Deffrennes, “Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech”. Financial technology, or Fintech, is a global equalizer that can reduce inequalities between countries […]

Jason Henrichs and Jim Marous interview Allison Netzer and Liz High about their book “Think Like A Brand Not A Bank”. Maybe you don’t necessarily put the customer first. Great brands get great returns every […]

The Ethereum Merge has officially taken place, marking the full transition of the network to proof-of-stake (PoS). On Sept. 15 at 06:42:42 UTC at block 15,537,393, the long-awaited Merge saw the merging of the Ethereum […]

A court in South Korea has issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the founder of Terraform Labs, escalating its probe into the crypto ecosystem whose two tokens lost $40 billion in value in a […]

Hubert Danso is the CEO of the institutional infrastructure investment platform, Africa Investor. Hubert talks to Dave and Dharm DeMystify about the potential of Africa to drive a green industrial revolution, and the importance of […]

As growth across the fintech industry slows and contracts, we take a look at how fintech decacorns have been affected. The news that the world’s largest and most successful Buy Now Pay Later company, Klarna, […]

Jess Mager talks with Revolut’s General Manager of US, Yuval Rechter, to discuss the company’s plans for expansion, super-app offerings and what sets their products apart from the competition. Yuval joined Revolut this year with […]

Challenging real estate and financial market conditions and an unfavorable capital-raising environment has led to some real estate tech startups shutting down. In 2020, historically low interest rates led to a surge in both rates […]

Jeremy Balkin, Global Head of Innovation and Corporate Development, JP Morgan, delivers a fascinating presentation on the future of payments. JP Morgan is the largest payments business in the world – think big numbers – […]

The valuation for payments company Stripe and other tech firms was cut by T. Rowe Price Group as investors’ romance with technology stocks continues to cool. According to regulatory filings, Stripe’s valuation was marked down […]

The U.S. Federal Reserve said last Monday it had finalized guidelines for how it will review requests by banks, fintechs and other firms to access the central bank’s master accounts and payment systems. The final […]

Analysts at PwC expect the disruption in retail banking to continue and identify the five most likely directions for how banking will unfold over the next three-plus years. “We can anticipate continued disruption of the […]

Africa now accounts for 70 per cent of the world’s $1 trillion mobile money value. This narrative is pivotal, seeing that a study by the World Bank indicates that mobile money services positively impact poverty […]

It would be more reassuring to see ventures like Flow being backed by people who wouldn’t mind seeing them succeed in their own backyards. One of the themes both Andreessen and rental-focused startups talk about […]

Bitcoin’s top developer and Lead Maintainer, Wladimir van der Laan, has confirmed that he’s retiring. Van der Laan is the second successor to Satoshi Nakamoto and is one of the few people in the world […]

According to one tally, there were around 250 neobanks in the world as of August 2022. How many might be there a year later remains to be seen. Like their brethren in the buy now, […]

Apple’s multiple forays into banking services haven’t exactly been hidden, but only now is the tech giant’s potential to become a retail financial services powerhouse coming into focus. For some time now a race has […]

Among consumers between the ages of 21 and 55, 40% pay to receive or subscribe to fintech services each month, with half spending $10 or more. Across a range of financial management activities, more consumers […]

David M. Brear of the Fintech Insider podcast is joined by some great guests to ask ‘how will PSD3 shape the future of Open Banking?’ Payment Services Directive 2 was the starting pistol for innovation […]

Monzo Co-founder and Former CEO Tom Blomfield tells the Monzo growth story from 0 to 1m customers from 2015 to 2018. First, a note about the context. We started the company in the UK in […]

Nada is an account with a debit card that lets users invest in, earn, save and spend real estate as an asset. Rents are going up in cities across the U.S., but the national homeownership […]

A crop of lawsuits could finally settle the question of whether most digital assets are illegal securities offerings. If you have paid casual attention to crypto news over the past few years, you probably have […]

Around half of financial firms report that they are still in either the beginning or implementation stage of digital transformation projects. For many financial institutions, the pace at which they are pursuing digital transformation is […]

Spearheaded by the Brazilian Central Bank, Pix’s launch is an example of how innovation can accelerate financial inclusion and create new consumer segments in a country’s economy. Do you have a cell phone? Great. That’s […]

Jim Marous, of the Banking Transformed podcast, chats with Bhavin Turakhia, CEO and Co-founder of Zeta on how embedded payment technologies are becoming available to organisations of all sizes. Embedded payments have become the norm […]

Whatever the public think, digital currency is coming and some innovative thinking will be required to deliver it as a genuine cash alternative into mass markets. The Dutch bank ING is piloting a peer-to-peer payments […]

The increasing adoption of embedded finance solutions has given prominence to non-financial institutions as a point of contact for customers. In turn, traditional financial service providers have been pushed into a background role. Embedded finance […]

Casavo’s rise has largely come out of three main areas: the pandemic, the gaps in the property market in Europe as it exists today, and Casavo’s particular approach to tackling that. Opendoor opened the door, […]