Posts tagged Plum
Building the best payments fiat to crypto onramp, with Ivan Soto-Wright of MoonPay
Building the best payments fiat to crypto onramp, with Ivan Soto-Wright of MoonPay

In this conversation, we have a really cool conversation on fintech, crypto assets, payments and all the things around it with Ivan Soto-Wright, the CEO and Co-founder of MoonPay.

More specifically, we discuss Liability-driven Investment (LDI), the proliferation of AI in personal finance to drive sound decision-making, innovation in finance is following the same trajectory that resulted in VOIP for the telecommunication industry, the geographical maze of crypto KYC, payment networks, and crypto payment processing.

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digital lending, artificial intelligence, crypto, paytech, chatbots & other robots, regulation & complianceLex SokolinMoonPay, Saveable, FCA, Plum, Binance, Coinbase, Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin
Google has come to Banking. What does that mean, and what should we do about it?
Google has come to Banking. What does that mean, and what should we do about it?

Google has done it. In a massive update to Google Pay, the company highlighted exactly the direction of travel for high tech, fintech, and the global banks. It has articulated a vision for competing with Apple Pay and Ant Financial. Let's walk through the features.

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big tech, digital investing, digital lending, mega banks, digital transformation, super app, roboadvisor, paytech, open banking / PSD2Lex SokolinGoogle, Citi, Square, PayPal, Mint.com, Yodlee, Trim, Cleo, Plum, Acorns, Wealthfront
Have Facebook Messenger Chatbots failed for Finance?
Have Facebook Messenger Chatbots failed for Finance?

In the long take this week, I try out a contrarian point of view on personal finance chatbots. Trim, a savings chatbot, just withdrew support from Facebook Messenger. While lots of other chatbots are still invested in conversational banking, what could we take away from the counterfactual of chatbots failing to get B2C traction? What is the impact on the rest of the platform wars waged by Amazon, Google, and Tesla for connected homes, cars, and the Internet of Things?

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artificial intelligence, chatbots & other robots, augmented realityLex SokolinDeep Dream, Deepfakes, TikTok, Snap Inc, Facebook, Trim, Wealthfront, Plaid, Mint.com, Amazon, Plum, Cleo