How do you make $10 Billion from $300 Million investment within a year? Walmart did just that with their acquisition of Flipkart in India last year. Flipkart is the ecommerce giant in India, and Walmart acquired a 77% stake in them for $16 Billion in 2018. Flipkart came with its payments app Phonepe (pronounced as […]
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Bernard Lunn is a Fintech deal-maker, investor, entrepreneur and advisor. He is CEO of Daily Fintech and author of The Blockchain Economy. On Tuesday I attended some events in London promoting the nexus of Gibraltar + UK + Israel in Fintech & Crypto. I was invited by an international law firm based in Gibraltar with strong connections […]
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image If 40% of the U.S. and EU business owners do not have property and liability insurance, and 70+ % are underinsured, and the existing market is already more than US $60 billion in premiums, is there not an opportunity for growing the commercial line business, particularly for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs)? Of […]
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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. If as a fintech you’ve ever exposed yourself to the forgettable experience of trying to work with a bank, possibly participating in their endless ‘innovation sprints’ or graveyard show […]
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The ten-year-old Fintech that listed on NYSE exactly 4 years ago – November 2015 with the ticker symbol SQ; continues to innovate. It is best known as a B2B Fintech in the payments space that had huge success with small merchants globally. It grew with POS terminals and smart credit card readers. As a publicly-traded […]
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This is one of our Fintech From A Peak Interviews, where we talk to people making a big difference in people’s lives with fintech services, Accion, founded in 1961, is hardly an overnight sensation. This is a story of quietly doing the right thing for a long time and then suddenly the world catches up. Today Accion […]
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New forms of money and their adoption will greatly depend on two things: if they can be used as a store of value and if they can be used as a means of payment. Stablecoins have emerged promising both, making significant strides in the past couple of years. Since 2014, a total of 213 stablecoin […]
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Our aim at Daily Fintech is to be a decentralized think tank where we get a diversity of opinions from around the world. One person whose thinking I have long admired is David Siegel. Even when I disagree with him, I always learn a lot, so we thought that the Daily Fintech community would benefit […]
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It’s hard to get past a month without stumbling on some astounding facts about China. The country is just behind Sweden in going cashless, however, digital payment growth in China is certainly a bigger story than it is in the whole of Scandinavia. The sheer volumes ($40 Trillion) of digital payments last year was unprecedented. […]
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Image Take a US $8 billion dollar insurance business that serves more than 7 million customers annually regarding residential real estate assets valued at more than US $5 trillion, that’s working in a regulated, politically hyped environment and one might see opportunity for innovation. Throw in significant exposure to regional wildfires and urban area earthquakes, […]
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