Fintech News Issue #249 January 2nd, 2020
Podcasts & Videos
A Decade of Fintech
— via Breaking BanksBrett King hosts our end of the year / Christmas special with Theodora Lau, Penny Crosman, Jim Marous, Ron Shevlin, and David Birch, discussing how fintech has evolved over the past decade!
Top Stories
10 Ways AI Is Going To Improve Fintech In 2020
— via ForbesAI & machine learning will improve Fintech in 2020 by increasing the accuracy and personalization of payment, lending, and insurance services while also helping to discover new borrower pools.
All indicators confirm that investment in fintech, new technology that can improve and automate financial services, is skyrocketing and is expected to exceed $30 billion by 2020.
9 transformative fintech deals of 2019
— via Payments Source2019 kicked off with a series of large, multibillion-dollar acquisitions that promised to forever change the landscape of the payments industry.
FinTech Articles
Making Fintech Partnerships Work: Tips for Banking Providers
— via The Financial BrandFinancial institutions that see fintech partnership as a way of outsourcing digital innovation sadly cheat themselves and their partners.
Predictions for ArtificiaI Intelligence and Fintech for 2020
— via Crowdfund InsiderThroughout the past year, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other forms of technology within the financial services industry has continued apace.
2020: fintech and beyond
— via Central Banking“As central banks, we are fundamentally open to innovation,” said Burkhard Balz, executive board member of the Bundesbank, speaking in Singapore in November.
FinTech or Financial technology has become a popular industry for helping to innovate financial transaction services and online security.
Monica Desai Weiss is an investor at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, where she focuses on fintech and blockchain.
10 ways Africa’s fintech sector boomed in 2019
— via Venture BurnFintech remains one of the hottest tech verticals in Africa. This year saw African fintech startups based on the continent raise over $53-million in 25 deals (in disclosed deals).
Ten Years Of Fintech Megatrends For The Next Decade
— via ForbesTis the season for predictions as we close out the last ten years and head into 2020 and a new decade of bold technological innovation.
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