This week, Apple (in association with their partner bank Marcus) announced a brand new savings feature or savings account, offering a competitive 4.15%. But the fintech sphere is agog at its simplicity and elegance, something that any bank in the US could have done at any time but didn’t. Apple’s…

Solving climate change will require banks to migrate almost entirely to the cloud For the last few years, we’ve heard a lot of noise about the massive energy sink that Bitcoin mining is. In fact, it is estimated that in 2021 Bitcoin miners consumed a total of around 113 terawatts…

Sponsored Article A Very Different Tech Evolution Over the last decade, fintechs players have built some of the largest engaged customer bases in the digital sphere. WeBank with north of 240m customers acquired in less than 8 years, NuBank with 50m, Revolut 16m, Square’s 30m monthly active customers, Chime with 25m, Credit Karma with 10m…

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5G is the term given to 5th generation technology used on broadband cellular networks. By 2025, it is estimated that close to 2 Billion subscribers (roughly 20–25% of the global population) will be using 5G connections for watching streaming video, playing and downloading video games, and making phone calls, etc…

Normally at this time of year, I’d be winding down for a summer break after an admittedly brutal 3 months on the road speaking at conferences and events all around the world. In 2019 that meant 33 countries for the calendar year and an aggregated audience of more than 30,000…

I’ve been reading and thinking a great deal about how CoVID-19, AI, Climate Change and such will change the way we act as a species (for a positive future). Unless you like being shut-in, without work, access to basic services and the economy crumbling around you, my guess is you…

I was reading some posts last week from my mates Chris Skinner and Ron Shevlin that got me thinking. Since the first neo banks and early challenger banks¹ emerged in the period from 2008–2014, we’ve seen a flurry of innovative new features, apps, and strategies. The largest of the neo’s…

NEW YORK, New York., April 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ In what has been described as a hard-fought legal battle the 13th District Court of New York issued a clear victory for the group known as the Fintech Mafia today over a multi-year legal dispute with the US Patents and Trademark Office…