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What’s next for blockchain?

Chris Skinner

Everyone got very excited a few years ago about blockchain technologies, the ledger system that was spawned by the arrival of bitcoin in 2009. I recently wrote an article for Bloomberg’s Business Week, and thought it worth sharing with y’all here: What’s next for blockchain? appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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IFC, Citi Launch $800M Fund To Support Trade Finance In Emerging Markets

PYMNTS

Since it was launched in 2009, the monies have financed a total of $35 billion in trade, with $13 billion in low-income and lower middle-income countries and $3.5 While disturbing, it presents an opportunity for FinTechs at a time when the market is ripe for banking disruption and digitization.

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An API-Driven Fix To Digital-First Banking

PYMNTS

The global financial space has been severely impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines preventing customers from visiting bank branches to access the services they need. Developments From Around The World Of Digital-First Banking.

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IFC, Citi Launch $8M Fund To Support Trade Finance In Emerging Markets

PYMNTS

Since it was launched in 2009, the monies have financed a total of $35 billion in trade, with $13 billion in low-income and lower middle-income countries and $3.5 While disturbing, it presents an opportunity for FinTechs at a time when the market is ripe for banking disruption and digitization.

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A seven year old idea comes of age: Bank-as-a-Service

Chris Skinner

In 2009, I coined the word BaaS. Instead, BaaS stands for Banking-as-a-Service. No, nothing to do with sheep!

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Top 63 Online Digital Banks for U.S. Consumers (Nov 2023)

Fintech Labs Insights

Consumers have been banking online for 28 years. And from the very beginning, there have been pure-play digital banking startups. The first, online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. But unlike ecommerce, digital-only banking was slow to catch on.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

Fintech Labs Insights

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players.