A decade of covering the evolution of themes in digital payments and assets that indicate the future of money and banking
This month, we mark our 10th anniversary. I’ll be taking a look back at the last 10 years of FinTech and the evolution of digital payments and assets, following the idea that looking back at history gives clues to predict the future. One of the best ways to see where you are going is to look back at where you came from.
I wrote and published the first articles that evolved into the FinTech newsletter in October 2014 after attending the Sibos* corporate banking conference in Boston. The founding post that laid out the themes that have focused our articles came in December 2014 in an article titled, “Three developments indicating the future of money, finance, and payments.”
These three themes were important because of “the long-term shift they portend for the future of money, finance, and payments:
- The legitimation of bitcoin
- The internationalization of the Renminbi
- The resilience of the existing payments system
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