Issue 268 · May 14, 2020 Weekly edition · 3 min read

Fintech News

The Corona crisis continues to accompany us this week and is the subject of many articles in the latest issue of FinTech Weekly. We also have a very interesting article about Google, the next big fintech vendor. Have fun

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Google: The Next Big Fintech Vendor

Four recent stories regarding Google signal that it, too, is following a similar path and is on its way to becoming the next big fintech vendor:

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In this issue · 11 items

COVID-19 Crisis to Give Fintech Enablers a Boost Fintech News Switzlerland — The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to a head the importance of a digital economy. In this context, competition is set to accelerate in the fintech sector as the digital shift will make stakeholders fight for market share, according to tech advisory and investment firm GP Bullhound. Open story ↗ Venture Capital Has A Lot To Learn From Fintech: Data-Driven, New Products, And More Access To A Broader Set Of Companies Forbes — Investment in the financial technology space has skyrocketed globally over the last decade. Fintech has transformed nearly every aspect of the traditional bank. Open story ↗ Dealing with a crisis: FinTech versus Bank The Finanser — The chasm between start-ups and incumbents is massively exposed by coronavirus. Open story ↗ Balderton Capital backs Primer, a fintech helping merchants consolidate the payments stack Tech Crunch — Primer, a U.K. fintech that wants to help merchants consolidate their payments stack and easily support new payment methods in the future, has quietly raised £3.8 million in funding. Open story ↗ COVID-19 Impact on the Future of Fintech The Financial Brand — The COVID-19 crisis has put the entire banking ecosystem under stress, with the need for personalized digital solutions, a strong capital foundation and visionary leadership being more important than ever. Open story ↗ Fintech in the Eye of the Storm Medium — “What does fintech and the wider financial services sector look like in a post-Covid-19 environment?” No one can yet answer this with any certainty, but little happens in the European fintech space that does not cross our radar screen and we believe there are some notable trends that can help to better understand some of the possible outcomes. Open story ↗ How fintech can help SMEs recover from the impact of COVID-19 The Economic Forum — Around the world, small businesses have been hit extremely hard by the impact of the coronavirus. Open story ↗ Finding Fintech in unlikely places Builtin — PayPal, Western Union and FIS have all launched accelerators to fuel the future of fintech — but not in NYC or SF. Open story ↗ What FinTech CEOs can learn from other industries Finextra — In the past three decades, the financial industry has transformed. Innovation has skyrocketed. The uptake in new technologies means that the landscape is entirely different to even ten years ago. Open story ↗ Partnering For Innovation: Selecting Your Fintech And Maintaining The Partnership What in recent years has been used as a term to define alternative lenders, and direct-to-consumer disrupters of banking, “fintech” has circled around again to include any technology company creating innovative solutions for financial institutions. Open story ↗ Coronavirus: Fintech sector 'squeezed' by Bounce Back loans Yahoo Finance — Fintech businesses are lobbying the Treasury and the Bank of England for cheap funding to allow them to compete with big banks throughout the coronavirus crisis. Open story ↗

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