This week's FinTech Uncut! covered a lot of ground and you can watch it here and now!
This week's episode was a bit Bugs Bunny, with highlights talking about Klarna posting its biggest loss to date, Western Union announcing a twist to BNPL and Visa eyeing up FIS. Meanwhile, Quizmaster Rik continues his singing streak. What in the fluffy bunny was going on in Fintech this week?
Links to stuff we spoke about:-
- The story about Visa eyeing up FIS for acquisition was so fresh the quizmaster didn’t get a chance to formulate a question!
- Alice Beer tells you how to hustle your way to a better bank balance (including getting paid to watch Netflix)
- And take a look here if you want to know how encouraging your employees to have a side hustle makes them more entrepreneurial
- Klarna posts its biggest losses to date but hope to make up for some by charging fees
- Ron Shevlin explains why Klarna is NOT a BNPL platform
- Railsr is going off the rails and this is only part of the story
- Western Union decides to enable people who have no money to be sent money by people that have no money – what could possibly go wrong?
- Elon Musk announces his MasterPlan 3 – sustainable energy for all the earth! To be fair, if anyone could pull it off, it would most likely be him (so long as he doesn’t go broke first)
- Revolut’s auditors are a bit wary of their very late figures, meanwhile Revolut is still trying to get a UK banking license
- Australia’s central bank takes further steps into their CBDC investigation of use cases
- And with some customers being more than 1,000km away from a bank branch it might be a good alternative to cash
- Chris wrote 2 great articles about that ridiculous Gartner headline
- And if you don’t know about “The Banking Scene” community yet then please take a look at the website and why not join Rik and Andrew LIVE every Thursday for a one hour session held under Chatham House Rules with special guests each week
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Chris M Skinner
Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through his blog, TheFinanser.com, as author of the bestselling book Digital Bank, and Chair of the European networking forum the Financial Services Club. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand (as well as one of the best blogs), a FinTech Titan (Next Bank), one of the Fintech Leaders you need to follow (City AM, Deluxe and Jax Finance), as well as one of the Top 40 most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal's Financial News. To learn more click here...
