What Starling, Allica Bank and Modularbank think about neobanking business models in 2021 What the UK leaders of digital banking think. Luminaries from three of the Uk’s digital banks discuss what’s on their minds for this year. The gist seems to be that the big banks are shedding customers in their boatloads thanks primarily to ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories from the last week. 1 Time to digitize trade reporting In September 2009, it took just nine words – OTC derivative contracts should be reported to trade repositories – for the Group of 20 (G-20) to unleash one of the most ambitious and ... Read more ›
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Savvy consumers are cozying up to “Internet of Things”, welcoming smart doorbells, access controls and monitors that report incidents. These devices autonomously control parameters, bolster security and delight through optimizing home entertainment. Insurance carriers’ prognosis is that such gadgets can unlock pent-up policyholder satisfaction while simultaneously lowering risk. Market research characterizes the global smart home ... Read more ›
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Will a CBDC be private? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. How private should a CBDC be? China has already made all of those design decisions, its CBDC will be centrally controlled, managed and linked to your identity. But what will the West decide? First, ... Read more ›
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Tesla Model 3 price was shown above Bitcoin on CoinMarketCap for many days. A few months ago, you needed two Bitcoin to buy one Tesla Model 3. As I look at CoinMarketCap today I can see selling one Bitcoin , buying one Tesla Model 3 for $37,990 and having lots of spare change. Or should I HODL ... Read more ›
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Hedge Fund used to have a precise meaning. Limited Partners (LPs) invested in Hedge Funds who were bearish in order to “hedge” the rest of their portfolio which was long ie bullish. Hedge Funds then later came to simply mean a bunch of very smart people getting paid a lot of fees by LPs to ... Read more ›
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Today is Valentine’s day and many people around the world are celebrating the day with their loved ones. HODLing bitcoin is like being in a relationship, with its share of ups and downs. But on this day, like on past Valentine’s days, bitcoin once again showed us some love. The price of bitcoin today reached ... Read more ›
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The second week of February 2021 was a big news week in Fintech. As usual our job is to dig below the news to understand the underlying trends that you can use as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. To continue receiving This Week in Fintech, you can either become a paying Member for $143 per year ... Read more ›
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Banks relieved at Flexible Bounce Back Loan repayment terms In yet another sign of the times the UK Governments flagship coronavirus rescue loan scheme has relaxed the repayment terms for Bounce Back loans(BBL) much to the relief of the banks that made them. These loans of up to £ 50k are for small businesses whose ... Read more ›
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Tesla (TSLA) announcing that it had invested $1.5bn in the cryptocurrency was an obvious boost to the BTC-USD price. The law of supply and demand is one constant we can rely upon. The news is extra significant because Elon Musk of Tesla is now the third CEO to invest their treasury funds into Bitcoin, following ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories from the last week. 1 One year optional ESEF postponement During the trilogue meetings on the capital markets recovery package proposal (prospectus file) in December 2020, the European Parliament and the Council agreed to include in the package an amendment to Directive 2004/109/EC (Transparency ... Read more ›
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2020 brought about an inflection point in smart devices. The count of active IoT connections (e.g. connected cars, smart home devices, connected industrial equipment) overtook non-IoT connections (e.g. smartphones, laptops). From 21.7 billion active connected devices globally, estimates peg IoT-based at 54%. At current growth, 30+ billion IoT connections are expected as soon as 2025. ... Read more ›
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What will a CBDC stablecoin actually look like? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This question is still front of mind in the West, whilst in China it is decided and is in the roll-out phase. But first, I found this table useful in categorising ... Read more ›
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February kicked off with news that Switzerland now lets tokenized securities trade on a blockchain with the same legal standing as traditional assets. The significance is at two levels. The first level is simply legal certainty. Switzerland has long been officially a multi-currency county, because of an alternative currency called WIR. The WIR was set up ... Read more ›
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When RobinHood first appeared in 2015, DailyFintech wrote RobinHood Freemium could enable a lot of new Low Cost Active Alpha services. We focussed on the free part of the story and guessed at the business model as RobinHood was not being transparent about this. We guessed wrong although now that RobinHood’s business model is in ... Read more ›
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Last year was the year of pandemic. Facemasks and quarantines became the new normal and changed the world has forever. It was also an unforgettable year for bitcoin. During the lows of pandemic in the March it traded below $5,000. Then in the fall and into 2021 it surged. It hit $20,000 in December, around ... Read more ›
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Welcome February – was January wild enough for you? This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. To continue receiving This Week in Fintech, you can either become a paying Member for $143 per year (and receive all our content in addition to this weekly ... Read more ›
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Monzo might go the same way as Xinja? Australian digital bank banks Xinja literally threw in the towel in December last year after essentially admitting that in the current environment its business model just didn’t work. This was a rather extraordinary admission by a start up digital bank. After all the objective in starting ... Read more ›
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories from the last week. 1 ESEF postponements: what do we know? Many of us have been carefully watching the progress of the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) mandate. ESEF, underpinned by Inline XBRL, has seen the market rapidly develop new, innovative and competitive tools for ... Read more ›
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Globally last year, insurtech investment continued to grow amid an unprecedented business environment. Total funding across private investment deals reached an all-time high of US$7.1 billion with 377 deals – the highest in any year to date. Compared with 2019, annual funding rose by 12% while deal volume by 20%. The last quarter ended with ... Read more ›
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