TearSheet put together 5 interesting charts helping to provide greater explanation to certain areas of fintech; the charts include where and how banks spend on innovation, Goldman Sachs job listing, ethical concerns in using AI, mobile wallet traction and the top reasons for borrower dissatisfaction; the charts helped to reveal that Goldman is working hard to become a technology company, mobile wallet traction is quite low and interest rates by online lenders is the second biggest reason for borrower dissatisfaction. Source.
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The Trump administration is looking to potentially name the chair of the National Credit Union Administration to lead the CFPB; J. Mark McWatters has been seen as being a bigger credit union advocate over banks; bankers are concerned because his public record has indicated he lobbies more for breaks that favor credit unions over banks; while a decision is yet to be made bankers are hopeful that the administration will consider those from the banking community as well. Source.
While on the surface Affirm’s business may appear to be focused on lending and payments, the company can also help merchants in marketing; the company has large amounts of data on who is buying products, what they are buying and where they are buying; with this information they plan to offer their merchants more services in the future; Tearsheet shares more on Affirm’s plans. Source
Open source projects have started at Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase in the past year, there is a thought that this is the start a new wave of open source banking; Accenture found that 99 out of 100 payments executives at banks said they plan to make big open banking investments by 2020; open source projects like Linux has help the tech industry develop into what it is today; banks like CBW Bank, who is run by former Google engineer Suresh Ramamurthi, already have a marketplace where developers can build banking apps using their APIs; open source banking can also help to keep banks more secure as the big tech giants have been helped a lot by using open source applications. Source.
Lend Academy shares some of the biggest news stories of the year; includes Mike Cagney departing SoFi, the Cleveland Fed retracting their report on “p2p lending”, Prosper’s $5 billion deal, Renaud Laplanche’s new venture and more. Source
Business Insider takes a look back at one of the biggest trends in finance from 2017; Initial Coin Offerings or ICOs have become one of the main ways for companies in the blockchain space to raise capital; more than $3.5bn was raised using this method; some of the top raises include $153mn by The Bancor Protocol, $232mn by Tezos and $257mn by Filecoin. Source.
In this week’s WeiyangX Fintech Review reported by Crowdfund Insider they cover the rumors that the CBRC suspended online lending by private banks; private banks were only permitted to be in operation for the last 3 years and this news is reported to be done because of concerns over stability at the banks; a charity crowdfunding platform, Fenbeichou, was accused of fraud; the PBOC released new rules for mobile payment security including all QR code providers now need a permit. Source.
- Uber agrees to sell its US auto-leasing business
- As EOS Tops $8 is the Sun About to Set on Ethereum's Reign?
- Top 10 Companies of the Blockchain Industry in 2017
- Survey: 31% of South Korean Professionals are Cryptocurrency Investors
- How a simple tech upgrade at the IRS could transform the economy (by Sam Hodges, Funding Circle)
- TD's innovation agenda: Experiments with Alexa, AI and augmented reality
- Where fintech dollars will go in 2018
- The Next Big Trade for Bond Investors Is Betting on U.S. Homeowners
- Lend Academy Podcast: Camilo Concha of LendingUSA
- A.I. and Big Data Could Power a New War on Poverty
- Financial technology startups emerged as serious challengers to financial services in 2017
- Best Egg Will Broaden to Financing Purchases in 2018
- OnDeck Adds a BlackRock-Managed Fund to its Platform of Financing Partners
During the week I share the latest marketplace lending and fintech news...
With open banking set to go live in Europe next month US banks will be keeping a close eye on how the process works; US banks have started to share data with fintechs through different partnerships for different reasons; the time is coming where the industry will have to look at open banking as a regulatory standard and some think the banks should really be the ones to set the parameters; coming up with a potential global set of standards is something that could really benefit all parties involved; “You need to globalize that at consistency so you don’t have different standards for each country in Asia, for example,” said Cynthia Murray, a managing director at Bank of America, to TearSheet. Source.