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·Oct. 16, 2020

Virtual communities and digital worlds are the difference between Finance Incumbents, Fintech, and DeFi

This week, we look at:

  • How the medical reality is accelerating remote work and digital commerce, including the success of buy-now-pay-later companies like Affirm and Klarna

  • The emergence of virtual worlds and video game environments that generate $ billions in revenue and have millions of participants, with examples of Zwift, Fortnite, Tomorrowland, Roblox, Genshin Impact

  • How to connect digital environments to digital communities and their economic activity, including through mechanisms like non-fungible-tokens in Rarible and Async Art

  • Advice for shifting thinking from manufacturing financial product, to starting with the customer, to leveraging the community

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FintechUSA
·Aug. 4, 2020

Uber’s Departure from Fintech Won’t Slow Embedded Finance Down

Uber recently said they are de-prioritizing their finance related projects to better weather the current crisis; this comes only a...
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Asia/PacEuropeFintechNews RoundupUSA
·Aug. 3, 2020

More News for August 3, 2020

For What Future Are We Building Bitcoin? Working to understand Affirm’s reported IPO pricing hopes State regulator group, others back...
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FintechUSA
·Jul. 23, 2020

Affirm Powers Shopify’s Buy Now Pay Later Product

Affirm has struck a partnership with Shopify to power their buy now pay later product; “We’re super excited to be...
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FintechUSA
·Jun. 2, 2020

Affirm Launches High Yield Savings Account

Affirm has become one of the hottest fintech firms out there as buy now pay later has been one of...
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big techdigital transformationneobank
·Aug. 10, 2020

Google banking shows that tech giants are the storefront for everything, and other distributors will fade away

The tech companies will become the storefront to absolutely everything.

There is no Internet, there is only Google.

There is no commerce, there is only Amazon.

There is no finance, there is only WeChat / Tencent?

I don't know about you, but I cannot pay for anything in cash in London anymore. COVID has made the city go cashless. For China, QR codes have long replaced the need for paper money. And if there is no cash, what is the point of ATMs, and ATM fees, and bank branches, and bank branch staff? Financial firms no longer need to be the place where you shop for financial product.

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EuropeFintech
·Aug. 4, 2020

Curve Launching a Credit Offering Later This Year

UK payment aggregator Curve is launching its own credit offering later this year called Curve Credit; they began testing the...
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FintechUSA
·Jul. 31, 2020

Affirm Preparing for a Potential Blockbuster IPO

The Wall Street Journal reported late yesterday that Affirm has started to prepare for an IPO that could value the...
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FintechUSA
·Jul. 13, 2020

How Afterpay has Become the Credit Card Alternative

Buy now pay later firms are quickly becoming the alternative to credit cards during the pandemic; companies like Afterpay, Zip,...
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FintechNews RoundupUSA
·May. 20, 2020

Afterpay Crosses 5 Million Active Customers, Sees Significant Uptick During COVID-19

Afterpay operates in the buy now, pay later space and is a similar offering to other fintechs like Affirm and...
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