Issue 252 · Jan 23, 2020 Weekly edition · 2 min read

Fintech News

Our first top story of the week gives an answer on how Google keeps changing financial marketing. Another interesting story deals with the question if every company will be a fintech company. These two and a lot more

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The paradox of 2020 VC is that the largest funds are doing the smallest rounds

Too many deals, too little time per deal, and constant hyper-competition with other VCs for the same equity.

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In this issue · 11 items

How Fintech Innovations are Eroding Banking's Dominance Entrepreneur Europe — Cryptocurrency and peer-to-peer lending are helping upend norms in consumer finance. Open story ↗ What’s Visa Going To Do With Plaid? Forbes — A lot of smart people have already weighed in on what this deal might mean for Visa and the industry. Here are four different “views” Open story ↗ Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company a16z — In the not-too-distant future, I believe nearly every company will derive a significant portion of its revenue from financial services. Open story ↗ Who is the World's True Fintech Capital, and Who is next? LinkedIn — A few days ago the classic debate over who is the world's capital of Fintech again hit the Twitterverse as it does periodically. Open story ↗ How Google Keeps Changing Financial Marketing The Financial Brand — 20 years ago Google began taking advertising, and what started as a search engine became a marketing behemoth. Open story ↗ Vodafone quits Facebook's Libra project Finextra — Vodafone has become the latest Associate Member to quit Facebook's beleaguered digital currency project, Libra. Open story ↗ Fintech’s next decade will look radically different Tech Crunch — The birth and growth of financial technology developed mostly over the last ten years. Open story ↗ AI Will Give Rise To FinTech 2.0 And Longevity Banks Forbes — Over the past 100 years the financial industry has largely excluded people in retirement Open story ↗ Why 2020 Is The Year For Fintech Forbes — It may also be a bellwether for the year: 2020 may be the year for fintech. Four important and interlocking trends will drive this. Open story ↗ How FinTech Is Transforming Microfinance Business 2 Community — The world is moving towards digitalisation in true sense. Digital payments are strengthening the movement. Staggering statistics are coming to the fore that are pointing at the extent to which people are embracing fintech. Open story ↗ Delegates at World Economic Forum urged to commit to fintech by deVere Group CEO Information Age — Davos delegates urgently need to commit to fintech this year, according to the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial services and advisory organisations Open story ↗

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The paradox of 2020 VC is that the largest funds are doing the smallest rounds

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