The year has started out strongly for fintech M&A with four significant deals announced in just the first two months;...
I anchor around the issues Libra is seeing in trying to develop a money, and what alternate strategies are available. We also analyze elements of a JP Morgan 2020 blockchain report, which highlights the differences between running a financial products (like a money) and a financial software (like a payments processor). In light of this necessary pivot for the regulated Facebook, we look again at Ethereum's decentralized finance ecosystem and the types of challengers it has created for Jack Henry, Finastra, Envestnet, TradeWeb, and other infrastructure providers.
The National Restaurant Association has asked Congress to mandate the reduction of credit card interchange fees during the current crisis;...
Since expanding globally in 2019 Visa has grown their Fast Track program to include more than 140 fintech companies; the...
The U.S. Patent Office published a Visa patent application from November that would create a gateway to allow for central...
This Forbes piece digs into how financial services companies might be impacted by the Coronavirus; both Visa and Mastercard have...
Payments companies around the globe have been issuing warnings that their businesses will take a big hit in the coming...
Payments fintech Stripe announced three major upgrades to their payments platform to help users increase revenue, direct connectivity to major...
This week, I pause to reflect on the sales of (1) AdvisorEngine to Franklin Templeton and (2) the technology of Motif Investing to Schwab. Is all enterprise wealth tech destined to be acquired by financial incumbents? Has the roboadvisor innovation vector run dry? Not at all, I think. If anything, we are just getting started. Decentralized finance innovators like Zapper, Balancer, TokenSets, and PieDAO are re-imagining what wealth management looks like on Ethereum infrastructure. Their speed of iteration and deployment is both faster and cheaper, and I am more excited for the future of digital investing than ever before.
The future of payments and commerce is poised to become digital faster than we all previously thought due to the...