What will happen to Ripple Labs?
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Ripple is positioning itself as a bulwark against regulatory encroachment, with its legal future indistinguishable from the sector’s.
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Fintech News Stories
Cross-border strategies for payment giants
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With Mastercard opting to make its latest tie-up with Alipay but not Tencent, might Visa opt to partner with Alipay’s competitor?
Read MoreEvaluating Meta's payment strategy
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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?
Read MoreWhat will BaaS look like in a year?
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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.
Read More4 questions about a TikTok ban
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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.
Read MoreWho are fintech’s “walking dead”?
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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.
Read MoreCan cross-border payments have junk fees?
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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.
Read MoreOverhauling operations for T+1
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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.
Read MoreMaking sense of Capital One's Discover acquisition
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Regulators are in a double bind. The antitrust concerns are real—as is the potential for this acquisition to disrupt the Visa-Mastercard duopoly.
Read MoreNBFI risks and regulations
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Across the executive branch, regulators are growing more vocal in discussing the systemic risks that non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) pose. Why now?
Read MoreDoes crypto crime prevention need AI?
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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.
Read MoreThe SEC's bitcoin saga
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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.
Read MoreBartering meets tech platforms
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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.
Read MoreThe scavenging growth strategy
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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.
Read MoreAutomated vehicles and the future of insurance
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How will automated vehicles change insurance products and the industry writ large? Will these insurance solutions complicate regulators’ deflationary efforts?
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