Funding Xchange lands major round, sets sights on white label

Jessica Ellerm is a thought leader specializing in Small Business and the Gig Economy and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zuper, a neowealth disruptor in Australia. Do one thing and do it well. It’s a mantra that has quite possible served UK fintech Funding Xchange well. This week the SME lending marketplace announced it had […]

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Gamification via a Fintech ecosystem wins a UN Global Climate Action Award

A 3yr old Corporate Social Responsibility – CSR – initiative that took a life of its own, has resulted in a 2019 UN Global Climate Action Award for Alipay AntForest App. A great example of gamification and network effects on an ecosystem like Alibaba. At launch, it was one of the many charity projects that […]

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The Bank of Google. Does every big tech giant want to be a bank? Maybe… Probably!

In 1994, Bill Gates said: “We need banking, but we don’t need banks anymore.” What Bill Gates was saying is that once technology companies can provide the core services of banks, we really won’t need banks anymore. So why hasn’t Bill Gates opened a bank? Well, maybe because technology giants don’t really want to be banks. […]

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Will early stage equity crash when the everything bubble bursts?

Bernard Lunn is a Fintech deal-maker, investor, entrepreneur and advisor. He is CEO of Daily Fintech and author of The Blockchain Economy. Conventional Wisdom (CW) says that early stage equity will crash the hardest when the next crash happens. The CW logic is simple – crashes lead to risk aversion and nothing is more risky […]

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Is it Artificially Intelligent or Naturally Stupid? Let’s ask Apple

Earlier this week, there was an allegation that the credit scoring engine behind Apple card was biased. It emerged from the twitter account of David Heinemeier Hansson (@dhh). He raised the issue that his wife had been given a credit limit 20 times lower than his. David has about 360K followers on twitter, and the […]

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Something to be thankful about – subscribe by 30 November 2019 and get a 50% discount off your first year fee

  As a free Daily Fintech reader, you may be enjoying our extracts of daily articles and our weekly updates. But to gain full access and stay informed about the most enduring fintech issues of the day, you’ll need a paid membership. And, this Thanksgiving, we are giving new members a whopping 50% off your […]

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Two insurance innovations roads to be taken- it’s not all tech

image The Innovation road diverged in an InsurTech wood, And while I wanted to travel both And be one searcher, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it was lost in unknown techo growth;   Then took the other, as just as fair, And an improving process that […]

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Non-bank lending may have reach a tipping point in Australia

Jessica Ellerm is a thought leader specializing in Small Business and the Gig Economy and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zuper, a neowealth disruptor in Australia. It may have been a tough year for Australia’s banks -with cash earnings reportedly tumbling to their lowest level in 20 years – but it was a bumper year […]

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Daily Fintech unveils its Deans List of influential industry leaders to guide editorial direction

   Daily Fintech, the analysis driven online publication, is announcing a team of global fintech leaders who will serve as on-going advisors on our editorial direction. The team is called the Deans List to reflect Daily Fintech’s focus on producing high-quality, insightful and independent fintech analysis that one associates with higher learning. The initial list […]

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Can’t be evil

Eleven years ago, the Bitcoin white paper was published, changing forever technology, finance, and our relationship with money. In these 10 years, Bitcoin has become more valuable than gold, we’ve developed blockchain and other cryptocurrencies and seen a possible decentralized future where people are no longer required to trust an organization, but rather are given the opportunity […]

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