View profile

Fintech Playlist 💿 Week 20

Barb MacLean
Barb MacLean
@barbmaclean
🇺🇦 https://www.cufoundation.ca/
This is the fintech playlist you’re looking for.
What if all the newsletters and posts you read about fintech were a weekly playlist? Here I attempt to answer that question. Come for the playlist, stay for the Star Wars memes #SorryNoySorry #OkStillSorryImAPoliteCanadian 🇨🇦
Am I missing one? I mean I can only waste so much of my life on Twitter. Hit me up @barbmaclean and tag in your favs.

TransUnion to Add BNPL to Reports (sort of); Citi Ends Overdraft Fees
Goldman Seeks to Punish Walmart Defectors, Chime’s IPO Plans Delayed
fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com
Fintech 🧠 Food - 27th Feb 2022 - Sanctions the Geopolitical weapon that needs an upgrade. Chime is delaying its IPO and Flutterwave is a regional powerhouse.
Hey everyone 👋, thanks for coming back to Brainfood, where I take the week’s biggest events and try to get under the skin of what’s happening in Fintech. If you’re reading this and haven’t signed up, join the 11,453 others by clicking below, and to the regular readers, thank you.
sytaylor.substack.com
Fatboy Slim ft. Bootsy Collins - Weapon Of Choice [Official 4k Video]
Fatboy Slim ft. Bootsy Collins - Weapon Of Choice [Official 4k Video]
A SWIFT slap on the wrist - Chris Skinner's blog
During the weekend, there was some real action against Russia and specifically Vladamir Putin. The aim is to freeze Russia’s assets, worth around $630 billion, around the world. ‘A global financial pariah’: how central bank sanctions could hobble Russia The ban on Moscow’s use of its roughly $630bn of foreign …
thefinanser.com
Industry Leaders Predict Massive Changes in Banking by 2025
Banking will be far different in 2025 due to competitive changes, accelerated use of digital technology and several surprising factors.
thefinancialbrand.com
The Growing Domination Of Chime, Square Cash App, And PayPal In Checking Accounts
A new study of Americans’ checking account relationships underscores the growth of digital banks and fintechs like Chime, PayPal, and Square—and the decline of megabanks like Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo.
www.forbes.com
What brings us together
We read a lot about communities and the importance of community. But what is a community?  According to Britannica, “Canadian sociologist Barry Wellman defined community as networks of interpersonal ties that provide sociability, support, information, a sense of belonging, and social identity”.
www.linkedin.com
A glance at Sberbank — from Pokémon Go to Sbercoin | by Efi Pylarinou | Mar, 2022 | Medium
It was in 2016 when Sberbank offered free insurance for Pokémon Go accidents. Ladies and gentlemen, Sberbank was serving Russian gamers and using technology to enhance their branches by aiming to…
efipm.medium.com
What happens after you leave the room? - FinTech Futures
So when you leave the room, is your team busy putting their own thoughts in sentences that allow each other to work out all the possible shores we could be ending up at?
And if not, should you not go back into the room and start again?
That’s as good a place to build a bridge as any.
www.fintechfutures.com
Atomic lands $40M in funding, just five months after its Series A, to connect banks and fintechs to consumers’ paychecks – TechCrunch
Atomic, a provider of payroll APIs, has raised $40 million in Series B funding just five months after announcing its Series A financing. Mercato Partners and Greylock co-led Atomic’s latest round, which the company described as “preemptive,” meaning that it was not technically seeking to raise but rather was approached by investors. It has now […]
techcrunch.com
Canadian Fintech: Honk Honk Hodl 🚚 - by Tal Schwartz
Estate planning is kinda hot right now? B2B BNPL. Canada’s unicorns in context.
canadianfintech.substack.com
How Open Banking Can Revolutionize Dated Banking Systems in the US | HackerNoon
Open banking is on everyone’s minds now – and for a good reason. In Latin America, open banking is gluing society together to achieve greater social inclusion. In Africa, fintech companies are engineering a new hub for economic activity, and the latest EU regulations on open banking are provoking an inevitable face-off between challenger banks and traditional financial institutions.
hackernoon.com
​​​​Web3: Minecraft Web3; Save Ukraine DAO; zkSync launches ZK-Rollup on Public Testnet; Tether reduces Commercial Paper reserves; eBay to add Crypto payments
Gm Fintech Futurists — Welcome to our Web3 newsletter, focused on covering the overall progress in the metaverse, NFTs, and DeFi. To more closely manage which emails you receive, see this post. If you want to go deeper with our weekly long takes and develop a view on the space, check out our premium features below.
lex.substack.com
4 Lessons You Can Learn About Digital Transformation From Politics
Four Lessons Digital Banking Vendors Can Learn From Rick Wilson & Politics
Rick Wilson’s book Running Against the Devil is not on any business or fintech or future of banking reading lists, but I think it’s one of the best books about disruption I’ve ever read. 
pivotassets.substack.com
Without a new direction, crypto isn't going anywhere new
There is already a crypto strategy in the making, and it’s following a familiar pattern
themox.substack.com
Beyond The UK Government’s Fintech Review: Scaling Digital Britain Globally
It is a year on from the U.K. FinTech Review. The general consensus is that good progress has been made by the Government, regulators, and industry on implementing the report’s recommendations, however, much more needs to be done rapidly to scale a Digital Britain for global competition.
www.forbes.com
Hybrid offline/online transactions
You can’t upload cash… or can you? Convenience stores function as hybrid offline/online spaces for payments and identify verification.
bam.kalzumeus.com
What do BNPL customers want? - FATP (03/03)
What do BNPL customers want? The BNPL space is quite nascent relatively speaking, so there are still a lot of unknowns and like most categories, the space will probably bifurcate along different lines based on consumer needs. One interesting piece of news that caught my eye recently was research from
fintechacrossthepond.substack.com
Fintech Wrap: A Week In NYC | Revue
Fintech Wrap - Hi all, Julie here. Heading back to Austin after an amazing few days in NYC. It was the first time Jordan and I had been back since we moved away
www.getrevue.co
This week’s hidden track
Another great throwback from Mike. So good I’ve embedded the video for all you readers who don’t want to click through to revel in an ad from 5 decades ago.
Barclaycard Advert
Barclaycard Advert
Liner notes
Things I read, or wanted to read or listen to, or retweeted without reading that you might find interesting
‎For Fintech's Sake: Matthew Spoke, CEO @ Moves
‎For Fintech's Sake: Matthew Spoke, CEO @ Moves
This week’s guest is Matthew Spoke, CEO at Moves.
Moves is an all-in-one financial app helping gig workers manage their business and get ahead
podcasts.apple.com
‎Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS: 606. News: Flux's new CEO calls out the gender gap at the top of fintech
‎Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS: 606. News: Flux's new CEO calls out the gender gap at the top of fintech
Our expert hosts, David M. Brear and Nasir Ahmad, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week.
This week’s guests include:
Kevin Chong, Co-Head, Outward VC Veronique Barbosa, CEO & Co-Founder, Flux
With soundc…
podcasts.apple.com
‎Banking Transformed with Jim Marous: Blockchain, NFTs, Web 3.0, and Technologies Enabling the Metaverse
‎Banking Transformed with Jim Marous: Blockchain, NFTs, Web 3.0, and Technologies Enabling the Metaverse
If there was any doubt about the mainstream acceptance of cryptocurrency, you didn’t need to look any further than the ads during this year’s SuperBowl, where three of the top five apps whose ads delivered the strongest download growth were crypto ads.
At the same time, the recent NFT boom has seen…
podcasts.apple.com
‎One Vision: Come for the content; stay for the community on Apple Podcasts
‎One Vision: Come for the content; stay for the community on Apple Podcasts
What makes a community? And what comes to mind when you see the word, community? A common bond, perhaps — around our mutual love for technology, and a conviction to bring inclusive finance to more in our society. Or perhaps a love of music, craft beer, and human connection. In this episode of One Vi…
podcasts.apple.com
Thread 🧵 of the week
Alex Johnson
Can anyone explain to me why fintech has seemingly made no progress in Canada?

What's going on up there?
Thanks for reading 👋🏻 Tune in next week for more fintechy song goodness. Until then, be excellent to each other. 
Did you enjoy this issue? Yes No
Barb MacLean
Barb MacLean @barbmaclean

This is the fintech playlist you’re looking for.
What if all the newsletters and posts you read about fintech were a weekly playlist? Here I attempt to answer that question. Come for the playlist, stay for the Star Wars memes #SorryNoySorry #OkStillSorryImAPoliteCanadian 🇨🇦
Am I missing one? I mean I can only waste so much of my life on Twitter. Hit me up @barbmaclean and tag in your favs.

In order to unsubscribe, click here.
If you were forwarded this newsletter and you like it, you can subscribe here.
Created with Revue by Twitter.