Fintech Playlist 💿 Week 48
Too busy at Finovate this week? 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 🇨🇦
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Apple’s Homeland Security Deal Yields Checkpoint, KYC, Voter ID Patents, Documents Suggest — fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com Contract Shows Apple Drove Key Decisions in TSA’s Mobile Driver's License Rollout
Who Are You by The Who — music.apple.com
Payments in Africa, FinServ's tectonic shift, Banks on the Metaverse, Fintech still strong, Free book with a big question! "Can BRICS De-Dollarize the Global Financial System?"
Tectonic Shift by Akasha — music.apple.com
Dear Web3: You Don’t Have A Community, You Have A Cult | by Theo | Sep, 2022 | Medium
Someone pointed out that eventually all cults morph into a religion, and the main difference is the amount of real estate owned. Except, in the metaverse you can already buy plots of virtual land…
Losing My Religion by R.E.M. — music.apple.com
Regulators appear to be growing increasingly wary of banks and fintech startups getting too cozy • TechCrunch Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous […]
COZY by Beyoncé — music.apple.com
Goldman Sachs: The Quest for Eternal Youth | The Generalist — www.readthegeneralist.com The firm has spent billions attempting to transform itself into a tech company, exploring lending, savings, investing, and beyond. The initiative shows the opportunities and challenges of innovating from within.
Eternal Youth by Rude. — music.apple.com
What is more valuable? Your money or your identity? As Iago famously says in Shakespeare's Othello, "who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing" before going to on to state that "he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed".
Stand And Deliver by No Doubt — music.apple.com
Sex and drugs and crypto roll - Chris Skinner's blog Coindesk just ran a series of articles about the relationship between cryptocurrency and sins. The sins vary from money laundering to crime and porn and, in an interesting variant, the financial system has only ever progressed thanks to crime and sex, something I’ve written about a lot before. Here are a few key paragraphs from...
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll by Ian Dury — music.apple.com
Canadian Fintech: Not down with down payments 🏠 Embed fintech into everything. I'll take some insurance with that. Clearco comes home.
Lay It Down (feat. Nicki Minaj & Corey Gunz) by Lil Wayne — music.apple.com
The ESG Advocate 012 - Governments are all over the place | Revue — www.getrevue.co The ESG Advocate - After last week's deconstruction of Enron's CSR report, we now return to regularly scheduled programming with the ESG and sustainability news
Rolling In the Deep by Adele on Apple Music — music.apple.com
By request, just for you Mr. Sekol
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You Are What I Am by Gordon Lightfoot — music.apple.com
In the name of User Centricity. Like it or not we are already in a… | by Efi Pylarinou | Sep, 2022 | Medium — efipm.medium.com Like it or not we are already in a Digital Economy which means we have the responsibility to watch the new Digital Divides and the fairness or lack of the new business models. This past week I shared…
Killing In the Name by Rage Against the Machine — music.apple.com
Embedded Finance: How Banks Can Go Beyond BaaS Embedded finance, the integration of financial services adopted by non-financial companies, has been making waves in the payments industry.
To Go Beyond by Enya — music.apple.com
Purpose is the new green Patagonia made headlines this week when its founder, Yvon Chouinard, decided to give the company away. As reported by The New York Times, "rather than selling the company or taking it public, Mr.
Purpose by Blasterjaxx & Maddix — music.apple.com
Capitol Capital It's always good to be in the greatest city in the world. It's especially good when there are lots of things going on.
Welcome To New York by Taylor Swift — music.apple.com
The anti-ESG brigade, the finance industry and the green potential of Africa Africa has the potential to help drive the ESG revolution, and the belligerence of the anti-woke community could mean missing out on this opportunity.
Brigade (Radio Edit) by Basic White — music.apple.com
This week’s hidden track
Lemonade - FinTech Futures — www.fintechfutures.com Don’t assume there's a plan. You're better off assuming the world is on fire. And if you notice things are happening without plan. Do something about it.
Freedom (feat. Kendrick Lamar) by Beyoncé — music.apple.com
"I had my ups and downs, but I always find the inner strength to pull myself up. I was served lemons, but I made lemonade.”
Liner notes
Check out other things I read, or wanted to read or listen to, or retweeted without reading that you might find interesting
Theodora Lau on LinkedIn: #OneVision #DEI #BreakthroughStudy — www.linkedin.com Our world has changed, and along with it, our workforce and their expectations. Employees are increasingly looking for purpose beyond a paycheck. "Make...
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Dave and Dharm DeMystify: EPISODE 65: COMPOSABLE BANKING on Apple Podcasts — podcasts.apple.com In this episode, it's back to the 2 D's alone. Dharm demystifies the topic of Composable Banking for Dave.
$ Billions of Ethereum staked - The Merge #shorts — www.youtube.com #staking #crypto $ Billions ofETH staked - The Merge
World Tour
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Wake Up – Comm. Failure — commfailure.com
I’ve been waiting to see Arcade Fire for ages. Post COVID, I finally did.
Fintech Playlist 💿 Week 48 by Barb MacLean — music.apple.com
Thanks for reading 👋🏻 Tune in next week for more fintechy song goodness. Until then, be excellent to each other.