Buy Now, Pay Later has finished 2021 strong, the new payment model seeing strong adoption over the past 12 months particularly as the pandemic forced a number of shifts to consumer spending habits. The biggest platforms continue to expand – BNPL company Klarna recently extended its services to incorporate all online retailers, whether they’re Klarna partners or not – but while … [Read more...] about BNPL: High Reward, High Risk?
How will FinTech Evolve in 2022?
Usually, we like to offer you the latest insights on what’s going on in the frontiers of FinTech. But today, we’d like to ask you for your insights — what are the biggest trends of the moment? What FinTech trends do you think will have the greatest influence on the evolution of financial services in 2022? Take our 3 minute 2022 FinTech Trends Survey! … [Read more...] about How will FinTech Evolve in 2022?
Continuing Disruption
Supply chain disruptions will continue to create uncertainty in the real economy well into next year. This is not my usual Week in FinTech overview. But how current supply chain problems are likely to affect the economy in the coming year made a greater impression on me this week than any of the payments, wealth management, cryptofinance, and related regulatory topics I … [Read more...] about Continuing Disruption
November FinTech in Review: FinTech Questions
Developments in faster payments, digital assets, and technical interfaces raise questions. Businesses wonder about how to adopt them and at what cost. Investors wonder how to profit from them. And regulators wonder how to keep them safe and conder control. We covered some of those competing agendas this month in the articles linked below. For a consumer-oriented view and … [Read more...] about November FinTech in Review: FinTech Questions
API Technology Moves into Institutional Investments
Technology moves fast and slow. Weekly reports of developments in digital assets and cryptocurrencies this week show how fast new technologies can develop. At the same time, the news and announcements that caught my attention this week focus on good old application programming interfaces (APIs) gaining new uses to make the traditional world of institutional investing more … [Read more...] about API Technology Moves into Institutional Investments
Can Digital Assets Really Disrupt Payments?
As digital assets continue to become more and more mainstream, what role they’ll play as they move beyond a token for professional traders to something more widespread and ubiquitous remains a primary question. To some extent, there are no clear answers – yet. A lot depends on the moves that government organizations and banks make moving forward, and the answers they come up … [Read more...] about Can Digital Assets Really Disrupt Payments?