Posts tagged Slack
Amazon/Goldman partnership, TikTok banking license, and Ethereum fintech through the lens of Aggregation Theory & Super Apps
Amazon/Goldman partnership, TikTok banking license, and Ethereum fintech through the lens of Aggregation Theory & Super Apps

If you are in finance and only looking at banks, you are missing out on the real change agents. Here's some cross-industry action that we will unpack this week.

Amazon selected Goldman Sachs to be the lender of choice for small business loans. TikTok maker ByteDance is working with a Singaporean business family to get a financial license. And small business bank Starling is integrating Slack, energy switching service Bionic, and health insurance provider Equipsme into their marketplace. And we might as well talk about the Plaid Exchange launch, and end on the computational economy of Ethereum.

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super app, macroeconomicsLex SokolinAggregation Theory, Paytm, Ant Financial, WeChat Pay, Facebook, Amazon, Marcus, TikTok, Starling, Slack, Curve, Plaid, Ethereum, MetaMask
Creativity and courage are the vaccine -- from molecular technology, to digital workspaces, to solving for global health data
Creativity and courage are the vaccine -- from molecular technology, to digital workspaces, to solving for global health data

This week, we look at what positive innovations could arise from the pressure cooker of the pandemic. I touch on health care data and privacy, molecular technology, digital work- and play-spaces, and their financial implications. Channeled productively, the next decade could see advances in these fields that we can't yet imagine.

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philosophy, covid pandemic, identity and privacyLex SokolinBlackRock, Mortgages, NVIDIA, Molecular Assemblies, Folding@home, Zoom, Slack, Huawei, Twitch, TikTok, Decentraland, The Sandbox, CryptoVoxels, Ethereum
Shifting from Institutions to Retail Clients -- NYSE direct listings and Central Bank digital currencies
Shifting from Institutions to Retail Clients -- NYSE direct listings and Central Bank digital currencies

I look at the similarities between the NYSE building out direct listing products to augment or replace IPOs, and Central Banks considering launching consumer-facing digital currencies. In each case, the value chain of the respective financial sector is compressing, as the underlying manufacturers of financial product move closer to the consumer. I also highlight how a few blockchain-native alternatives to trading and rebalancing software are developing, and the reasons to get excited about things like Set, Uniswap, and Aragon.

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ICO / IEO, stablecoins, central bank / CBDC, exchanges / cap mkts, IPO / SPACLex SokolinNYSE, NASDAQ, Spotify, Slack, E-krona, Bitcoin, Visa, Uniswap, Set Protocol, Wyre, Aragon