Issue 58 · Mar 9, 2016 Weekly edition · 3 min read

Fintech News

This week, we will see what a Brexit means for UK fintech, discuss a fintech bubble and regard the current state of fintech with some really good infographics – because everyone loves a nice infographic. But wait,

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Breaking Banks: Blockchain is essential to the fintech revolution

Bitcoin has often been dismissed as the currency of criminals and frauds, but those in the FinTech space have thought differently for a long time. Even when they didn’t defend bitcoin explicitly, the interest in blockchain has only grown. And bitcoin is performing better against the US dollar than any other currency.

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In this issue · 12 items

UK fintech for Brexit? Has Brexit fallen at the wrong time for fintech in the UK? Ian Anderson looks at the pros and cons, and chooses his side of the fence. Open story ↗ So many new banks, but how many can succeed? Chris Skinner provides an overview of new banks popping up in the UK, as well as India and China. The question is, can they all do well? Open story ↗ Big fintech year behind, even bigger ahead! 2015 was a big year in banking technology, with new technologies and disruptive entrants to the market changing the way financial transactions are conducted for good. Open story ↗ Coffee and the fintech bubble When will fintech simply become tech again? Duena Blomstrom looks at the concept of the fintech bubble. Open story ↗ Around the Coin 92: Robots, Conferences, Undocumented, Currency Notes & the Historic Value of Money This week, Brian, Faisal and Mike discuss the coming of age of Robots & AI and what it means for us. We touch upon the various conferences we will be attending, covering and speaking in. The undocumented work, couple that with the recent news of the eliminating the US $100 Bill, what does all this mean. What has history taught us about value transfer and control. Open story ↗ The Future of Banking: Uber or Apple? Some of the biggest success stories in business are examples of people and firms who used market turmoil to their advantage, adapting to change to become even more successful. Open story ↗ Infographics: the state of fintech industry as we know it Who, what, where, when of the fintech industry today – this excellent infographics pulls together plenty of useful data, from top specialists, unicorns and start-ups to geographies and M&As. Open story ↗ Try to Be Customers' Favorite Bank, Not Their Only One Once, banks vied to offer everything a customer needed under one roof. Now, banks just need to figure out how to be the kitchen — the favorite room in the house. Open story ↗ Bitcoin and Diversity The Bitcoin community is in a bit of a civil war; I hope readers whose eyes glaze over at the crypto-currency’s mention will bear with me as I explain what is going on, and why some of the fundamental ideas in question matter broadly. Open story ↗ Scheming and Processing – Faster Last week’s news that MasterCard was exploring an investment or outright acquisition of VocaLink really lit up the “News” channel on our Slack system at Glenbrook. - See more at: http://paymentsviews.com/2016/03/08/scheming-and-processing-faster/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#sthash.1vBHqZw1.dpuf Open story ↗ How Google Is Innovating To Gain An Edge In Mobile Payments Recently Google announced that it is piloting an app called Hands Free which allows its mobile payment (Android Pay) users to pay in stores quickly and completely hands-free, through a voice command. The company stated that with this pilot, it wants to explore what the future of mobile payments could look like. Open story ↗ The broken world of mobile payments and how to fix it It’s being predicted that by the end of this year, mobile payment transactions in the U.S. will grow 210 percent. Despite this impressive gain, it turns out that not everyone is taking advantage of mobile payments. Open story ↗

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