Sitemap - 2019 - Fintech Blueprint 🤖🏦🧭

7,000 bank branches shut down and 425,000 jobs lost -- melting Banking into a glass half full; plus 12 key Fintech developments

Top 5 Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020 and beyond; plus 20 key Fintech developments

Unicorn valuations are bad for your health -- the Prisoner's Dilemma of WeWork and Magic Leap; plus 20 key Fintech developments

Neobank Chime valued at $6 billion with 7 million users, Goldman to launch roboadvisor with $5,000 minimum; plus 12 short takes on top developments

Shifting from Institutions to Retail Clients -- NYSE direct listings and Central Bank digital currencies; plus 12 short takes on top developments

Implications of Schwab's $26 billion acquisition of TD Ameritrade, and Tesla's black swan truck; plus 12 short takes on top developments

Ok, Boomer -- a meme for the broken political economy; plus 12 short takes on top developments

Blockchain progress through the lens of Binance's $180MM profit and Greensill's $1.5B SoftBank raise; plus 12 short takes on top developments

Understanding Uber Money and its threat to the financial industry; plus 14 short takes on top developments

Square's Robinhood competitor and Robinhood's Square competitor are rented from API providers, delegating billions; plus 13 short takes on top developments

Downtime Double Standards -- Fortnite game praised for black-out, neobank Chime upsets 5 million customers; plus 12 short takes on top developments

The political limits of commerce -- Telegram's $1.7B US offering and NBA's $1.5B China deal; plus 13 short takes on top developments

Fintech Price War -- Goldman's $1.3B Marcus burn, Neobank £200MM loss, ETrade's $75MM trading fees; plus 14 short takes on top developments

You don't get to cheat just because you like to win -- on WeWork, Politics, and Fintech

Facebook's Supreme Court is like Compliance in Banks, or Chinese Communist Party entities in joint ventures; plus 13 short takes on top developments

Why ConsenSys Codefi is the bridge to blockchain-based manufacturing for commerce and finance; plus 12 short takes on top developments

Insurtech Heat -- Prudential pays $2B for 3yr old start-up and Tesla insures own smart cars; plus 14 short takes on top developments

Will Open Source business models rule the world, as Enterprise Ethereum Pantheon joins Hyperledger; plus 14 short takes on top developments

Fighting Chinese Artificial Intelligence with lasers and American Crypto with European Central Banks; plus 12 short takes on top developments

Robocop vs. Terminator in Fintech; Comparing DeFi originations to Digital Lenders in the early years; plus 14 short takes on top developments

Real Estate Tech brokerage Compass earns its $6.4 billion valuation from smart arbitrage; plus 14 short takes on top developments

Losing our Sacred Data - how to make sense of Capital One, Equifax, and Facebook; plus 13 short takes on top developments

Big Fintech: LSE's $27B for Refinitiv, Softbank's second $108B vision, Ping An's $160B Revenue; plus 12 short takes on top developments

What Finance can learn from the Evolution of Beautiful Artificial Intelligence Art; plus 14 short takes on top developments

Deutsche Bank to fire 18,000 people while Amazon upskills 100,000; plus 14 short takes on top developments

Google and Amazon's mixed reality advertising could become digital lending and payments platforms; plus 13 short takes on top developments

$1B moved for $0.02 fee on Binance, $600M of Tether printed, $200M in DeFi lending; plus 14 short takes on top developments

Lessons from Uber's JUMP bikes on evolution in capitalism, Facebook's crypto money monopoly, plus 13 short takes on top developments

The Ethics of $2B Lemonade, $100B Softbank Visions, and $500MM of Binance IEOs, plus 13 short takes on top developments

JP Morgan's dead Neobank mistook Digital for a Channel, EOS Voice is $150MM in the wrong direction, plus 13 short takes on top developments

$20 Billion TSYS acquisition in the shadow of Alibaba's $500B SME aggregation, plus 14 short takes on top developments

How the SEC is wrong about the Internet and the Bitcoin ETF, plus 14 short takes on top developments

Goldman pays $750M for wealth platform United Capital, Jefferies gives blockchain-lender Figure $1B, plus 14 short takes on top developments

What Uber's IPO means for Fintech and Banks, plus 13 short takes on top developments

Facebook and Bitfinex both want $1 Billion for Crypto Stablecoins, plus 15 short takes on top developments

Wealthfront's $1 Billion of Cash in Two Months, plus 14 short takes on top developments

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