One of the first posts I ever wrote on Lend Academy back in 2010 was about mulling the idea of...
If you are in finance and only looking at banks, you are missing out on the real change agents. Here's some cross-industry action that we will unpack this week.
Amazon selected Goldman Sachs to be the lender of choice for small business loans. TikTok maker ByteDance is working with a Singaporean business family to get a financial license. And small business bank Starling is integrating Slack, energy switching service Bionic, and health insurance provider Equipsme into their marketplace. And we might as well talk about the Plaid Exchange launch, and end on the computational economy of Ethereum.
Facebook has re-released plans for Libra which are scaled back from their original vision after getting significant pushback from global...
A new Harris Poll survey by Ondot Systems asked Americans their thoughts about banking with big tech companies like Apple,...
My last post here generated quite an in depth discussion among the readers of this blog. This got me thinking....
There was some fanfare late last week when reports came out about Facebook securing partners for their blockchain based Libra...
The New York Times reports that 7 of Libra’s partners are quite wary of the new project; according to the...
Since the financial crises banks, for the most part, have focused their time and effort on complying with new regulations and building up capital ratios in case another crisis hits; while they were doing this another industry, fintech, emerged and has eaten into some of the core profit making businesses of the banks; banks have started to catch up with technology and as countries like the US look to pare back some crisis era rules the banks see the next few years as the perfect opportunity to invest wisely in technology; the one thing the banks might not be able to handle is if Amazon, Facebook or Google begin to encroach further into fintech, potentially bring in competition who can immediately match up in size and strength. Source.
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·This week, we look at:
IBM spinning out its managed services division with $18 billion of revenue in order to focus on hybrid cloud and digital transformation
Reliance Jio, the Indian mobile telecom provider with 400 million users, contemplating financial services with backing from Google and Facebook
The role that technology infrastructure plays in the delivery of financial services
Banks can take a lot of lessons from Facebook in regards to the ongoing data problems with Cambridge Analytica; as data sharing becomes commonplace in banking, banks and their partners need to ensure information is kept secure and not used for nefarious reasons. Source.