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How cross-border infrastructure, instant payments, and open banking advances are creating a more integrated, financially inclusive world.
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The company of the future is default global. Top fintech entrepreneurs are pursuing integrated cross-border payment infrastructure and full-stack solutions.
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The process of moving money between countries is complicated and costly. Here's how foreign exchange works and what happens when you send money abroad.
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The UK is the goldilocks of financial services: big enough to be meaningful on a global scale, but small enough to make decisions faster than the U.S. or the rest of Europe.
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Fintech has the potential to fully drive India’s economy. One major factor: the Reserve Bank of India has enacted progressive regulations at a rapid pace.
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Advances in licensing and open finance, the promise of ubiquitous instant payments, and regulatory support for solutions are feeding a fintech surge.
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Through the introduction of open banking and other regulatory advances, the B2B sector is poised to reshape the financial landscape for enterprises in Mexico.
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Softwares são globais por natureza e transcendem fronteiras com facilidade. A globalização do dinheiro, no entanto, é um desafio muito maior.
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A medida que la compañía del futuro se vuelve global por defecto, ahora existe un verdadero catalizador para el cambio. Los principales emprendedores buscan una infraestructura transfronteriza que sea más fácil de usar e integrar, así como soluciones completas para las propias empresas.
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Innovation is occurring at breakneck speed across banking, lending, insurance, real estate, and investing. Fintech pioneers are building fundamentally better and more inclusive experiences. It’s anything but business as usual.
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How cross-border infrastructure, instant payments, and open banking advances are creating a more integrated, financially inclusive world.
Visa and Mastercard currently facilitate more than three-quarters of all credit card transactions in the United States, at a time when post-pandemic Americans are now using credit or debit cards for roughly 57% of all tr...
What counts as "cash," developing a plan for that cash, building an adaptable operating model, and dealing with a liquidity crisis.
If you were interested in quickly launching a startup, here’s an easy formula for finding product market fit. First, identify an existing product in an industry with a low NPS (like most financial services) that has no...
Instant payments, tiered licensing for fintech startups, sandbox programs, and other regulatory changes have had a marked impact on financial services.
As I reflect upon my experience building Bond Street (an SMB lending startup we sold to Goldman Sachs in 2017), one of the biggest challenges we faced was in scaling customer acquisition. In retrospect, there were two cr...
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Millennials and Gen Z have been hard-hit by the one-two punch of the 2008 and 2020 financial crises. That experience has radically shaped their approach to finances and their mindset around credit and debt. This episode ...
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This episode is the second in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focused on prospective home buyers, sellers, and existing homeowners. This episode, Part 2, addresses renters a...
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This episode is the first in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focuses on prospective home buyers, sellers, and existing homeowners. Part 2 addresses renters and landlords.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve recently made a range of moves — from cutting interest rates to near zero (which it also did in the 2008 financial crisis) and using other tools — to support “the flow of credit...
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In this 19th episode of our news show, where we cover recent headlines from our vantage point in tech, we cover the following news items (in conversation with Sonal Chokshi):
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Hustlin’ Tech is a new show (part of the a16z Podcast) that introduces the technology platforms — and mindsets — for everybody and anybody who has the desire, the talent, and the hustle to do great things....
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This is episode #5 of our new show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way — why they’re in the news; why they matter from our vantage point in tech — and share ou...
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Synthetic fraud—yes, it’s a thing: a new evolution of consumer fraud that’s been emerging in financial services, to the tune of $1-$2B a year. In this episode of the a16z Podcast, Naftali Harris, co-founder and...
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In this hallway-style conversation (originally recorded as a video), a16z general partner Alex Rampell and Terry Angelos, SVP of Commerce Solutions at Visa, discuss the trials and tribulations of their time as co-found...
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How cross-border infrastructure, instant payments, and open banking advances are creating a more integrated, financially inclusive world.
-
The company of the future is default global. Top fintech entrepreneurs are pursuing integrated cross-border payment infrastructure and full-stack solutions.
-
The process of moving money between countries is complicated and costly. Here's how foreign exchange works and what happens when you send money abroad.
-
The UK is the goldilocks of financial services: big enough to be meaningful on a global scale, but small enough to make decisions faster than the U.S. or the rest of Europe.
-
Fintech has the potential to fully drive India’s economy. One major factor: the Reserve Bank of India has enacted progressive regulations at a rapid pace.
-
Advances in licensing and open finance, the promise of ubiquitous instant payments, and regulatory support for solutions are feeding a fintech surge.
-
Through the introduction of open banking and other regulatory advances, the B2B sector is poised to reshape the financial landscape for enterprises in Mexico.
-
Softwares são globais por natureza e transcendem fronteiras com facilidade. A globalização do dinheiro, no entanto, é um desafio muito maior.
-
A medida que la compañía del futuro se vuelve global por defecto, ahora existe un verdadero catalizador para el cambio. Los principales emprendedores buscan una infraestructura transfronteriza que sea más fácil de usar e integrar, así como soluciones completas para las propias empresas.