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Argentina’s upcoming election; Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Argentina to the right
Patricia Bullrich and Javier Milei are rising in the polls for this year’s presidential election | The Americas The annual inflation rate, of 11... (2023)
Banking. The financial system is slipping into state control
Government control the banking sector; What will it look like after the next spell of instability? | Finance & economics (2023)
Africa’s debts. Africa faces a mounting debt crisis
Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)
OpenAI API example use case: Morgan Stanley GPT-4 to organize its vast knowledge base.
Morgan Stanley wealth management deploys GPT-4 to organize its vast knowledge base. (2023)
The End of Silicon Valley (Bank) – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Silicon Valley Bank bears responsibility for its demise, but it symbolizes a Silicon Valley reality that is very different from the myth — and the ... (2023)
The hidden costs of cutting Russia off from SWIFT | The Economist
America’s foes would rush to alternatives, hastening its financial decline | Finance & economics (2022)
Why does the Federal Reserve need a digital currency? — Quartz
Some experts think central bank digital money is inevitable—and the US is falling behind. (2021)
SoftBank-backed Atom Finance raises $28M, will open Miami office - Refresh Miami
Investment platform Atom Finance is opening a Miami office on the heels of raising $28 million in a Series B funding round led by the Miami-based S... (2021)
Amount raises $99M at a $1B+ valuation to help banks better compete with fintechs – TechCrunch
Amount, a company that provides technology to banks and financial institutions, has raised $99 million in a Series D funding round at a valuation o... (2021)
Govcoins - The digital currencies that matter
Get ready for Fedcoin and the e-euro | Leaders The rise of e-money… (2021)
Fintech’s Final Frontier: Central Banks and Disintermediation - a16z
The government should turn every social security number into a unique and secure bank account, enabling it to deposit money directly to consumers. ... (2021)
Cleo, the AI-powered ‘financial assistant’, raises $44M Series B led by EQT Ventures
Cleo, the London-founded “financial assistant” that takes the form of an app and chatbot and now counts the U.S. as its largest market, has raised ... (2020)
Stripe: Platform of Platforms
Stripe’s announcement of Treasury — banking-as-a-service — manifests the breadth of the company’s ambition. That is an API call creating a bank ... (2020)
Citi Unveils Sneak Preview of The Citi Plex Account by Google Pay | Business Wire
Today, alongside the launch of the redesigned Google Pay in the U.S., Citi shared a sneak preview of the Citi Plex Account, launching on Google Pay in (2020)
Nigeria’s Kuda raises $10M to be the mobile-first challenger bank for Africa
The African continent is currently one of the fastest-growing regions when it comes to mobile growth, and financial technology companies that are b... (2020)
The calm after the storm - Wall Street says it is braced for losses. Now what? | Finance & economics
One question is what they do with their earnings (2020)
The corporate undead - Why covid-19 will make killing zombie firms off harder
Easier access to credit and government support means they will stumble on (2020)
Robots to Cut 200,000 U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says - Bloomberg (2019)
Robots to Cut 200,000 U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says By Alfred Liu October 1, 2019, 10:52 PM EDT Industry spends $150 billion ann... (2019)
Bitcoin Comes to Whole Foods, Major Retailers in Coup for Digital Currency - 2019 - Fortune
Crate and Barrel, Nordstrom and Whole Foods are among major retailers now accepting Bitcoin via a project backed by the Winklevoss twins. “The r... (2019)
Tech’s raid on the banks - Banking services - The Economist
OVER THE past two decades people across the world have seen digital services transform the economy and their lives. Taxis, films, novels, noodles, ... (2019)
Changing the guard at HSBC - Asia bound - 2018 - The Economist
YOU spend 38 years at a mighty global bank, the last seven as chief executive. As boss you clean up a stinking mess, the legacy of ill-conceived ac... (2019)
How to fix Europe’s lenders - Europe’s banks are still in trouble - 2019 - The Economist
IT’S NOT all bad. In 2008 Lloyds, a large British bank, took over HBOS, a rival that was being sucked beneath the rising waters of the global finan... (2019)
Fixing Europe’s zombie banks - European banks - 2019 - The Economist
IS THERE ANY more miserable spectacle in global business than that of Europe’s lenders? A decade after the crisis they are stumbling around in a fo... (2019)
How Apple Card works – TechCrunch
One of the most buzzy announcements on Apple’s stage this week was Apple Card, its in-house credit card powered by Goldman Sachs and Mastercard. Co... (2019)
The Square Strategy Teardown - CB Insights Research
How The Point-Of-Sale Fintech Insurgent Is Quietly Turning Itself Into A Full-Service Bank Payments startup Square is moving beyond the registe... (2019)
JP Morgan Coin: The next big cryptocurrency? - Decrypt Media
U.S. investment bank JP Morgan Chase has entered the crypto world. It has created a stablecoin known as the JPM Coin, is it the next big cryptocurr... (2019)
Bitwage Now Lets Firms Pay Salaried Staff in Crypto - CoinDesk
A new product from Bitwage makes it easier to handle payroll taxes when paying employees in bitcoin or ether. (2019)
Automation will be the end of banks as we know them – TechCrunch
TechCrunch - Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley (2019)
The $200 Trillion Gold Rush That Has Reshaped Private Banking - Bloomberg
From Hong Kong to Miami, private bankers are finding new ways to serve the growing ranks of the world's wealthy. (2018)
RBS Blockchain Team Jumps Ship to Build New Startups Using R3's Corda - 2018 - CoinDesk
A blockchain team from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has left to start a "venture studio" called Chorum from which full-blown startups an be spun out. (2018)
Why Citibank Branches Are Closing Around The World
After the company’s collapse during the 2008 recession, Citi’s stock has continuously struggled. Shares of the company saw more than a 30% drop ove... (2023)
Citigroup and the 'financial supermarket' experiment | FT Film
The 1998 mega-merger between banking giant Citicorp and insurer Travelers Group created the world's biggest financial services company. But Citi's ... (2023)
International finance: Why oligarchs choose London for their dirty money
Britain is one of the best places in the world to launder dirty money. Our new film tells you why—and asks whether that's likely to change.00:00 - ... (2023)
The Open Source Movement in Fintech
Imagine that financial services could be built like Lego blocks — that developers could easily combine different pieces to discover hundreds of new... (2023)
The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services | a16z
a16z Published on Jan 21, 2018 Traditional banking services have fallen flat for an enormous segment of the population -- whether because they’... (2018)
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech | a16z
a16z, Published on Oct 25, 2017, Financial services startup, or fintech, are innovating across broad categories — in core banking, new financial s... (2017)
How Credit Card Processing Works - Transaction Cycle & 2 Pricing Models
How Credit Card Processing Works : http://www.bancardsales.com How Does Credit Card Processing Work This video explains how credit card payments ar... (2017)
A Brief History of Credit Cards (or What Happens When You Swipe) | a16z
a16z General Partner Alex Rampell helps solve the great mystery of what actually happens when you swipe your credit card?! He takes us from the beg... (2017)
Banks Took Billions In Fees To Process Small Business Loans Amid Pandemic Crisis
Banks handling the government's $349 billion loan program for small businesses made more than $10 billion in fees — even as tens of thousands of sm... (2020)
Pilot.co - Hire Anywhere | Global payroll, benefits & compliance - pay contractors and employees worldwide
Easily onboard and pay contractors and employees worldwide, in one platform. Pilot is your all-in-one payroll and HR solution for your global team.... (2023)