The Head of Product for Financial Services at Shopify, Vikram Anreddy, discusses their broad suite of financial offerings including the new Shopify Credit Card.
PayPal just launched what it calls a super app. It has a cash account with a 0.40% interest rate, direct deposit, money movement, bill pay, and remittance features. It also integrates shopping functionality with rewards and cash back. In this analysis, we compare this offering with Google Pay and Square Cash App, as well as trace the DNA of PayPal to understand whether such an offering will succeed where others failed.
This week, we look at:
Embedded finance as a growing theme with the $10B Affirm IPO and Stripe's launch of Treasury
The customer types that each of these firms is attempting to convert into their product, and what this tells us about economic growth
A framework for understanding the emerging value chain of digital finance, and the role of platforms and marketplaces
The Wall Street Journal reported late yesterday that Affirm has started to prepare for an IPO that could value the...
Ian Kar of Fintech Today writes about the role of e-commerce behemoth Shopify in the future of embedded finance; Shop...
Meet Islands of Cool, a blockchain-based carbon removal project out of New Zealand that wants to make carbon offsets cool.
In this conversation, we talk all things embedded finance, platform banking, and APIs with Simon Torrance – one of the world’s leading thinkers on business model transformation, specializing in platform strategy, breakthrough innovation and digital ventures.
There’s an enormous gap between the financial needs of humanity and what the financial sector is able to deliver there. This gap is being filled by tech-savvy solutions and embedded finance plays which are putting into question the role of a bank in this new ecosystem.
Uber recently said they are de-prioritizing their finance related projects to better weather the current crisis; this comes only a...
WeLab Bank launches in Hong Kong JetClosing Raises $9M in Series B Funding How Payments Fintech Is Using Banking As...
Affirm has struck a partnership with Shopify to power their buy now pay later product; “We’re super excited to be...
