Samsung has already been working with bank branches for five years; the new retail pop-ups will be rolled out in “sooner than a year”; an example of the pop-ups is a shopping center which usually has ATMs where banks could setup for a weekend to attract new customers; Samsung provides the devices that help bank employees engage with their customers. Source
This week, we consider the impact of financial infrastructure collapse and who really gets hurt through the lens of Wirecard, Enron, and Lehman Brothers. Yes, there are investors in the entity that will lose value. But there are also clients and counterparties of Wirecard, like Curve, Revolut, and Crypto.com. In the case of Lehman, there was a $40 trillion derivatives notional amount that took twenty years to wind down. We also consider the most recent $500,000 hacking in DeFi of an automated market maker to see if there are common threads to be drawn between the two worlds.
Apple, Google and now Samsung have all entered into the financial services space in a bid to provide a better...
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