FINTECH ARTICLES OF THE WEEK 12/04/16 FinTech businesses require scale to succeed, and consumers demand security. Those concerns top this week's list, along with lists of influencers and a trio of articles focused on how community banks are responding to FinTech challengers. FinTech rides the CTA The new FinTech firms are focusing on creating scale, and they are using … [Read more...] about Scale and Security
FinTech Trends
FinTech Legitimation
FINTECH ARTICLES OF THE WEEK 11/06/15 Investment money continues to pour in, major publications cover blockchain technologies (as major banks adopt it), and new sectors catch startup interest. Even bitcoin gets a break. As @IRenwood quoted Jamie Dimon on successful #fintech startups, "It's not the technology, it's how they reduce pain points, front end and back end." The … [Read more...] about FinTech Legitimation
The Evolution of FinTech
FinTech Articles Week of 10/23/15 While most of FinTech conversation is focused on what’s happening next, this week we take a step back to see how FinTech has evolved, why services separating themselves from big banks is not a new concept, and when “FinTech” became the popular word in financial sector dialogue. We also present a report from Sibos 2015 and a look at an … [Read more...] about The Evolution of FinTech
Markets to Make: Trends and Research in Banking, Payments, and Cryptofinance
TOP FINTECH STORIES 09/04/15 The influence of the Millennial generation and how to capture them as customers gets increasing attention in the financial services media. As we move into the final stretch of the year—the fall conference season upon us and planning markets for next year—I'm reviewing trends and market research in the news. U.S. readers wanting to spend part of … [Read more...] about Markets to Make: Trends and Research in Banking, Payments, and Cryptofinance
FinTech Trends
FinTech Articles of the Week 07/31/15 This week I'm checking in on some of the trends I called out in FinTech Rising industry briefing earlier this year. And yes, I am shamelessly affirming my 2015 themes. The Internationalization of the Renminbi Continues Treasury & Risk takes a look at how corporate treasury managers, a conservative bunch, should consider settling … [Read more...] about FinTech Trends
Being Digital
FinTech Articles of the Week 7/24/15 Being Digital Nicholas Negroponte wrote the book in 1995. We're still on the journey of digital transformation, and in some areas, notably B2B payments, it seems like the directions are fuzzy and the map unclear. How will banks and corporations find their way through the paper woods and organizational swamp? Will digital FinTech grow into … [Read more...] about Being Digital