Lionel Barber, the editor of the FT, summed it up at Davos: “Nobody wants to be in banking, everyone wants to be in FinTech”. FinTech — or financial technology — has reached the mainstream, but what does this mean for the banks?
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Source: What will the bank of the future look like? — TransferWise Ideas — Medium
Two of the most interesting, and booming, developments in the payments industry are mobile payments and the rise of the blockchain. But, what happens when these two trends combine in order to make a more secure, speedy, and effective way to pay for goods and transfer funds?
Source: 8 Ways That The Blockchain Will Change Mobile Payments — Medium
There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization.
And two big changes have happened that are widely known – in the past quarter the value of some very high profile companies such as LinkedIn and Twitter have fallen substantially plus Fidelity (usually a public market investor) has written down the value of many of it’s later-stage private-company investments and made the downward valuations known…
Source: What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued | Bothsides of the Table
Checks and cash are relics in the payment industry. With an influx of alternatives and the steady climb in people using their smartphones to purchase goods and services, it’s clear that mobile payments will become the preferred payment method in the very near future…
Source: 8 Trends in Mobile Payments You Need to Know About — Medium
The 2016 Mobile Payments State of the Industry Report, both U.S. and UK consumers are increasingly relying on their smartphones and tablets to search and buy products. In the U.S., using a mobile phone to access the Internet has gone from 65% in 2012 to 94% in 2015. In the UK, 58% now use their mobile phones to make online purchases with debit cards (51%), PayPal (49%), and credit card (34%). It may well be that cash will no longer be king in the not-so-distant future…
As FinTech is firing up operations across industries, tech companies have started feeling the urge to get involved in order to take advantage of the innovation wave and maintain relevance. There’s no need to even mention that tech companies have a direct interest in FinTech as the last one has the potential to significantly cut costs and optimize operations. While traditional players in the financial industry are expected to get their hands into FinTech, big tech companies are usually not very vocal when it comes to revealing their FinTech “affairs.”
One of the examples of a dark horse in FinTech is Microsoft which has a wide range of initiatives in FinTech and has recently went far with blockchain...
Source: What Is Google Doing in FinTech? | Let’s Talk Payments
Financial technology has never been a more exciting or innovative category — especially in New York City. Oddly, tech is not the driving force in many of these ventures. The Blockchain and…
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