Issue 281 · Sep 3, 2020 Weekly edition · 3 min read

Fintech News

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In this issue · 11 items

Vipps to reach beyond Norway with Visa distribution deal Finextra — Norwegian payments app Vipps is making a bid to break out of its home market through a strategic partnership with Visa. Open story ↗ Risky business Fintech Futures — I got some good traction with my “The revolution will be regulated” piece so watch me push my luck, now. Because I am not quite done making my point. Open story ↗ Open banking: Truelayer and Freetrade launch partnership altfi — The move will allow users to fund their accounts more quickly and therefore be able to react faster to invest in stocks and ETFs available on the Freetrade platform. Open story ↗ Digital Bank Revolut Expands Crypto Buying and Selling Service to Australia Coindesk — Revolut has opened its cryptocurrency services to Australian residents. Open story ↗ It's time to tie banks' business models to customer well-being American Banker — America’s current financial system is essentially broken for the many working Americans who live on the edge financially. Mismatched incentives are at the heart of the problem. Open story ↗ Robinhood May Face $10M SEC Fine Over Disclosure Failures Coindesk — Robinhood is reportedly in hot water with a top U.S. regulator for not properly disclosing that it was making revenue by passing customer orders onto market makers. Open story ↗ Hong Kong’s days of ‘cash is king’ may be in peril as fears of Covid-19 infection boost digital payments South China Morning Post — The outbreak has made people worry about touching cash, which has accelerated a shift towards digital payments, according to transaction data and Visa’s local boss Open story ↗ Where in the world is the fintech revolution taking place? Value Walk — Even if you’re not into knowing about the latest news from the start-up world and have no real interest in finance, when the two come together in the form of FinTech, it’s something that has the power to change your life even without you being aware of how it came about. Open story ↗ Banks aren’t as stupid as enterprise AI and fintech entrepreneurs think Tech Crunch — Announcements like Selina Finance’s $53 million raise and another $64.7 million raise the next day for a different banking startup spark enterprise artificial intelligence and fintech evangelists to rejoin the debate over how banks are stupid and need help or competition. Open story ↗ Amazon's new offerings make India centre of fintech push Reuters — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has added insurance and even gold to its menu of financial services in India, to expand its customer base and attract more subscribers to its Prime loyalty programme in a battleground growth market. Open story ↗ What is fintech? Bankrate — The term fintech might conjure futuristic ideas of the merging of traditional finances with technology. But fintech already likely holds a prominent place in your daily life. Open story ↗

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