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Dan Murphy
February 11, 2019Regular readers of FinTech in Focus will know we are cautiously optimistic that FinTech will increase competition in financial services, leading to better and more affordable products and services for consumers. -
Dan Murphy
February 04, 2019CB Insights is out with its 2019 FinTech Trends to Watch report, featuring 104 slides of big picture thinking on FinTech trends. -
Dan Murphy
January 18, 2019It won’t come as news to many readers that the Federal Reserve has, well, reservations about FinTech. -
Dan Murphy
December 04, 2018Yesterday, the Milken Institute’s Jackson Mueller published a report on the changes technology has wrought in the insurance industry. -
Dan Murphy
November 21, 2018Two weeks ago in the Mexican Senate, a newly introduced bill that would compel banks to cut their fees triggered widespread dismay among investors. -
Dan Murphy
November 06, 2018Of all the societal problems blockchain is said to be uniquely able to solve, perhaps the most ambitious is one of our democracy’s central problems—low voter turnout. -
Dan Murphy
October 30, 2018The Omidyar Network and Oliver Wyman are out with a report on FinTech revenue models, highlighting the importance of revenue models in building consumer trust. -
Dan Murphy
October 24, 2018Early last week, Bloomberg made waves when it reported that Robinhood made over 40 percent of its revenue in 2018 by selling investor’s orders to high frequency trading firms. This... -
Dan Murphy
October 15, 2018Barry Eichengreen, a prominent economist from the University of California, Berkeley, recently wrote in Project Syndicate that the problems with stable coins should be “familiar to anyone who has encountered... -
Dan Murphy
October 09, 2018Hello FinTech in Focus readers. This week, instead of reading my thoughts on the latest research and developments in FinTech, I ask that you help a member of our FinTech... -
Jackson Mueller
October 03, 2018Jackson Mueller is back this week to weigh in on Treasury’s recent recommendations. -
Dan Murphy
September 24, 2018Throughout this month, which marks the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Monday morning quarterbacks of all stripes have offered their assessment of the global financial crisis. -
Dan Murphy
August 27, 2018Last week, I discussed the need to ensure that efforts to apply digital technologies to economic challenges do not impede the establishment of basic infrastructure and good governance. -
Dan Murphy
August 20, 2018In the tech community, there are a number of biases that need to be addressed. The most glaring of these is gender bias, but there are others as well. -
Dan Murphy
August 13, 2018KPMG is out with its biannual “Pulse of FinTech” report, which finds that overall FinTech funding for 2018 is on pace to surpass 2017 levels halfway through the year. -
Dan Murphy
August 07, 2018Hello FinTech in Focus readers, apologies for the late release this week. For some reason, the U.S. -
Dan Murphy
July 30, 2018Platforms are simultaneously blessed and haunted by network effects: blessed by the positive feedback loop of a growing user base and haunted by the need to grow and maintain that... -
Dan Murphy
July 24, 2018A few months ago, I borrowed a turn of phrase from The Economist to ask, is technopolitics the new geopolitics? For much of the 20th Century, energy companies effectively served... -
Jackson Mueller and Dan Murphy
July 16, 2018Last week, we released a new white paper: “RegTech: Opportunities for More Efficient and Effective Regulatory Supervision and Compliance.”The paper develops an analytical framework to describe RegTech’s development and discusses... -
Jackson Mueller and Dan Murphy
July 09, 2018On Thursday, Square confirmed the withdrawal of its application for an industrial loan company (ILC) charter while emphasizing that that it is merely regrouping to strengthen its application moving forward.
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