Issue 243 · Nov 14, 2019 Weekly edition · 4 min read

Fintech News

This weeks issue is about how fintech can save us from ourselves. Also, we found a really interesting article about Singapore which will extend its fintech funding after the latest success. Our last top story this week

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In this issue · 13 items

Mastercard is introducing Fintech Express Finextra — Global payments industry giant, Mastercard is taking big steps towards embracing Fintech. Open story ↗ 373. News: Robinhood's 'free money' glitch 11FS — Our expert hosts, Leda Glyptis and Adam Davis are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Jasper Martens - CMO at PensionBee Francesca Carlesi - Co-founder and CEO at Molo Finance Ryan Edwards-Pritchard - Fintech nomad and friend of the show Open story ↗ The 7 Biggest Technology Trends To Disrupt Banking & Financial Services In 2020 Forbes — Even though banking and financial services have been slower than other industries to adopt the latest technology into their operations, financial organizations are trying to catch up by incorporating artificial intelligence, blockchain, and other technology to benefit their customers […] Open story ↗ MoneyLIVE Summit MoneyLIVE Summit is the bank event for the most senior and innovative leaders across banking, payments and FinTech to network, share ideas and supercharge the digital banking revolution. With more than 100 speakers to hear from (including HSBC, ING Bank and Santander), three stages filled with content that filters out the white noise and networking meetings that can be set up throughout the day, join 650+ of your peers for the best two days out of the office you’ll get this year. Use code FINTECHWEEKLY10 to save 10% on your ticket. Open story ↗ Singapore Considers Extending Fintech Funding Beyond 2020 Bloomberg — Singapore’s central bank is poised to extend funding for financial-technology initiatives because the five-year round ending in March has yielded positive results, its top official said. Open story ↗ Fintech Can Save Us From Ourselves a16z.com — It’s a well-known fact that people act irrationally when it comes to money. Open story ↗ Visa to snap up stake in African fintech unicorn Interswitch SkyNews — The payments group Visa is paying $200m for a 20% stake in Interswitch ahead of a potential London IPO next year, Sky News learns. Open story ↗ How Fintech’s Third Wave Will Change How You Bank Fortune — The origins of today’s boom in consumer-focused “fintech,” or financial technology, trace back to the global economic meltdown in 2008. Open story ↗ Initiative to promote responsible AI use in finance sector The Straits Times — A new initiative is under way to help financial institutions promote the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics. Open story ↗ Fintech and banking bosses debate the potential death of banks Yahoo Finance — Many of the fintech companies that are disrupting the banking sector will not be around in 10 or 100 years, according to Anne Boden, the CEO of challenger bank Starling. Open story ↗ BankThink Building the right sandbox to attract fintechs American Banker — Sandboxes give regulators a way to understand a company’s use of advanced technologies and what regulations apply to a particular model, product or service. Open story ↗ Collision and fusion within fintech PwC — After years of tracking the competition and collaboration between Financial Services (FS) and Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) companies, PwC is now seeing pockets of convergence, driven by fintech. Open story ↗ Blockchain In Mobile Application Market AC Marktet — Blockchain is one of the most popular technologies of this century. This technology offers immense speed and highly-secured features. Checkout the following infographic on – Blockchain In Mobile Application Market, Developed by Karthik at Ac Market. Open story ↗

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