Evaluating Meta's payment strategy

Evaluating Meta's payment strategy

What sort of antitrust implications arise when the world’s largest social media conglomerate partners with the world’s largest e-commerce company? How does it affect consumer and business wellbeing?

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What will BaaS look like in a year?

What will BaaS look like in a year?

Onsite at Fintech Meetup, The FR met with Michele Alt, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Klaros Group, and a former regulator at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

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4 questions about a TikTok ban

4 questions about a TikTok ban

President Biden has indicated that he would sign the bill if it also passes in the Senate—but questions remain, many of which directly impact the future of fintech.

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Who are fintech’s “walking dead”?

Who are fintech’s “walking dead”?

Carey Ransom, Managing Director of BankTech Ventures and a contributor to The FR, describes the phenomenon of “walking dead” fintech companies who face a fintech venture bubble overhang, outlines the future of AI hype, and encourages conferencegoers to say what they really mean. 

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Can cross-border payments have junk fees?

Can cross-border payments have junk fees?

Exchange rate markups affect everyday people, not just wealthy tourists—deleteriously affecting small businesses, consumers who send remittances abroad, as well as servicemembers—amounting to a whopping $5.8B in lost value last year.

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Overhauling operations for T+1

Overhauling operations for T+1

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Julian Trostinsky, Head of Global Support Solutions at Gresham, outlines a major compliance deadline looming for buy- and sell-side firms in North America.

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Making sense of Capital One's Discover acquisition

Making sense of Capital One's Discover acquisition

Regulators are in a double bind. The antitrust concerns are real—as is the potential for this acquisition to disrupt the Visa-Mastercard duopoly.

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NBFI risks and regulations

NBFI risks and regulations

Across the executive branch, regulators are growing more vocal in discussing the systemic risks that non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) pose. Why now?

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Does crypto crime prevention need AI?

Does crypto crime prevention need AI?

In their official announcement, both CYBERA and Chainalysis framed blockchain-based crimes as a workaday form of financial fraud. That is, official statements made no differentiation between crypto-focused and non-crypto-focused crimes, folding them into a singular locus of concern. 

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The SEC's bitcoin saga

The SEC's bitcoin saga

The past 48 hours have encapsulated the relationship between crypto players and their regulators so uncannily that such a drama would’ve been scrapped in a writers’ room for being too far-fetched yet on-the-nose. 

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Bartering meets tech platforms

Bartering meets tech platforms

Through Go Flex, Uber hopes to use bartering and a semblance of consumer freedom as a strategy for growth. But this payments scheme obfuscates a deeper crisis in supply.

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The scavenging growth strategy

The scavenging growth strategy

Coupled with the accelerated nature of venture-backed economics, it’s easy for a privately funded fintech to sink and go defunct without making much of a splash.

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Automated vehicles and the future of insurance

Automated vehicles and the future of insurance

How will automated vehicles change insurance products and the industry writ large? Will these insurance solutions complicate regulators’ deflationary efforts?

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The evolution of the digital identity market

The evolution of the digital identity market

Onsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with sat down with Ricardo Amper, CEO & Founder of Incode, discussing the identity stalwart’s plans for expansion, and diving into the relationship between public trust and Incode’s growth strategy.

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As brands jump on AI bandwagon, regulators respond

As brands jump on AI bandwagon, regulators respond

Artificial intelligence has arguably existed for decades. But AI’s branding—in addition to the complexity of technologies that fall under its umbrella—has been profoundly dynamic over that same time period.

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