Fintech Playlist 💿 Week 52
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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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'Last year was the party. This year is the hangover.' • TechCrunch Index Ventures fintech lead Mark Goldberg believes that the funding frenzy we saw in 2021 has fizzled, and now we're just trying to recover.
Wasn’t That a Party by The Irish Rovers — music.apple.com
Sibos 2022: Food, shelter, water - what does banking have to do with it? By enabling financial inclusion, through new business models and partnerships, banks can play a crucial role in lifting people out of poverty.
Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones — music.apple.com
We’ve had a tough few years. And we rallied.
Did we innovate enough?
Did we show ourselves to be resilient enough?
Did we do enough?
H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA), doesn’t think so.
At Her Majesty's Service by Onien — music.apple.com
I belong to the tribe of ‘we told you so’. All of us Innotribe alumni folks do. If you look back over the last 10-15 Siboses, you see a clear trend of things we talked about at Innotribe becoming slowly but surely topics for the main stage. That’s not because people finally got the memo and started talking, but because people got the memo and start doing.
Told You So by Paramore — music.apple.com
What happens if we don't do the things that need doing
Because admitting we don’t know is the first step to learning and is there more magical a thing than *not* resisting new knowledge? Not resisting the process of learning. The discomfort of admitting you don’t know.
And the interesting thing about this week is that there has been a lot of conversation around the things we don’t know in relation to the things we do know. It’s been a revelation.
The era of ‘our work over here’ and ‘the fintech stuff over there’ is well and truly over.
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You by Bryan Adams — music.apple.com
In these days that are dumb, I would rather have no bot - Chris Skinner's blog I regularly come back to a theme, which is how cloud computing and the smartphone have changed the world of banking. Why banking? Well, the world of entertainment, flights, shopping and more were changed by the internet in the 2000’s, before these technologies appeared. But when the smartphone and cloud landed, banking was disrupted. Why...
I'm With Stupid by Pet Shop Boys — music.apple.com
Global Retail Payments: A2A, Data And Non-Banks Key Areas For Accelerating Innovation The Payments Innovation Jury annual survey identifies a number of trends around innovation. Three key ones are account-to-account instant payments, the use of payments data and the licensing of non-banks to provide payment services.
Accelerate by R.E.M. — music.apple.com
For the planet’s sake … Ditch the toxic banking culture - AltFi To truly manage the climate crisis, we must have leaders who care about it, and who are willing to learn, writes Hannah Duncan.
Toxic by Britney Spears — music.apple.com
Edition 30 - Mental Health Hacks - Part 1. Hey folks, This week we had World Mental Health Day which although shouldn’t be a single point in time where we consider mental health, it does remind us to reflect on what we are doing both for ourselves and for the company we’re in. For me personally, mental health is about resilience.
Happy by Pharrell Williams — music.apple.com
Liquid Yield - 3 Fintech News Stories #1: July 1, 2023: The Day Debit Interchange-only Business Models Die What happened? The Federal Reserve finalized a new rule: The Federal Reserve on Monday voted to finalize a proposal to clarify a rule requiring more than one debit card network be available for routing all transactions, including those online. In…
American Pie by Don Mclean — music.apple.com
How TD is working to open-source equity education | BetaKit TD Lab Manager of Equity in Innovation & Programs Samantha Estoesta shares free resources for companies building an inclusive product development process.
Open by Luke Howard — music.apple.com
What is the future of banking and why does it matter to us all?
By Theodora Lau & Bradley Leimer
What if?
That juxtaposition is perhaps the most intriguing pair of words in the English language. Possibilities, paths, and potential — they all come to mind when we use this coupling. Yet, we rarely see future-focused narratives built around intention — around planning for the choices ahead.
What If by Coldplay — music.apple.com
The ESG Advocate 016 - Politics, Promise , and Peril! | Revue The ESG Advocate - Contrary to the calls that ESG is over, it should be renamed (or really that it should be integrated), and executives are backing away and pau
Peril by Martin O'Donnell & Michael Salvatori — music.apple.com
Metaverse: Any Bank That Is ‘Establishing a Presence’ Is Doing It for PR | EPAM
the more successful metaverses exist in gaming such as Minecraft, Fortnite, WoW, or other multi-player immersive platforms.
Financial institutions should be examining ‘the metaverse’ and Web 3.0 to be ready to engage when it makes sense. At this point, any bank that is ‘establishing a presence’ is doing it for PR more than anything else.
Minecraft by Sembari — music.apple.com
Why Jill Castilla is developing a digital bank for military members | American Banker About 75% of military recruits arrive at a training base with no bank account and have to be bussed to a local bank to open one, says Jill Castilla, CEO of Citizens Bank of Edmond. The bank's team is building a platform that will help service members save and build credit.
In The Navy by Village People — music.apple.com
Passwords Passing As a vignette to illustrate the state of the digital identity world in 2022, I can do no better than tell you that when I was in San Diego this summer (at a gathering of some of the brightest stars in the digital identity universe) I had need to change my flight. I opened up my airline app and (pres
Password by Kylie Minogue — music.apple.com
Fed(up)Now? Instant payments in the US finally on their way - The US plans for the introduction of FedNow, its real-time payments solution – but decades after some other countries. What took so long?
Fed Up (feat. Usher, Drake, Rick Ross & Young Jeezy) by DJ Khaled on Apple Music — music.apple.com
5 Fall 2022 Fintech observations. Orchestrators | by Efi Pylarinou | Oct, 2022 | Medium — efipm.medium.com Passporting in the EU is one such example in financial services. The European Commission continues to work towards its vision for a Single Market for financial services. I was pleased to hear at the…
Five Little Pumpkins by Raffi — music.apple.com
Sibos 2022: Are banks progressive about product? - FinTech Futures While the breadth of innovation outside of banks might not be a challenge to their existence, it will certainly limit new growth opportunities.
What's New Pussycat? by Tom Jones — music.apple.com
OCC's 2023 Supervision Plan Includes Fintech, BaaS Focus UK Challenger Bank North Shuts Down, Binance "Cross Bridge" Hack, Study Shows Americans' "Financial Health" Deteriorating
Supervision (Techno Trance Mix) — music.apple.com
No protections? No dice - by Alex Vronces Canada's "epidemic of fraud" may be around the corner
No Dice by NerdOut — music.apple.com
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Kardashian by Daniel Blume — music.apple.com
Pop the Hood It's impossible to know what's happening unless you look under the hood. We all know what's happening out there in the world at this time.
Under the Hood by Billy Ray Cyrus — music.apple.com
CBDCs in the news: APAC leading, Cross-border transfers coming soon, decrease US financial exclusion by 93% AI Bill of Rights or Wrongs?
Right Or Wrong by George Strait — music.apple.com
This week’s hidden track
Me and couple of dozen of fintech’s finest were invited by Leda Glyptis to pen a post for Fintech Finance’s The Fintech Magazine A ‘Digital’ Coming of Age. Check us out!
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Coming of Age (feat. Memphis Bleek) by JAY-Z — music.apple.com
Liner notes
Check out other things I read, or wanted to read or listen to, or retweeted without reading that you might find interesting
Selecting a Bank Partner - Fintech Layer Cake — fintechlayercake.buzzsprout.com Matt and Reggie discuss the basics of bank partners. A key feature of fintech, bank partnerships can make or break a fintech company.
Episode 462: Innovation IRL - Provoke.fm Media — provoke.fm Back to life, back to reality . Or at least back to “in real life.” Conferences are back. Finovate had its largest show ever in New York City and the Provoke team is crisscrossing the globe to speak, record and fight. That’s right, fintech fight club made another appearance at Finovate with Lindsay Davis of Atomic...
Theodora Lau on LinkedIn: I had such a great time chatting with Ali Paterson on writing Beyond Good… — www.linkedin.com
I had such a great time chatting with Ali Paterson on writing Beyond Good and the missed opportunities in fintech and longevity. Thank you my friend for the brilliant conversation and for not burning my hair. 🤣
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