FinTech
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November 25, 2016
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Hello FinTech Enthusiasts,
Here is the latest edition of your FinTech
Digest. This week's highlights include two great articles on the future of
Fintech and a couple others summarizing expectations for this years holiday
season.
Hope you enjoy it and, as always, feel
free to reach out with any questions or feedback.
Best, Karolina
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Miklos Dietz, Vinayak HV, and Gillian Lee
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McKinsey
For the past decade, fintech
companies—technology firms that focus on financial products and services—have
moved quickly, forcing incumbents to rethink their core business models and
embrace digital innovations. But now, the fintech industry is itself maturing
and entering a period of rapid change. Companies wondering how they will fit
into this new era must first understand the forces that are pushing the
changes.
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Nikolai Kuznetsov
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Forbes
These are the boom years for Fintech.
Between the years 2010 to 2016, investments in the Fintech sector jumped. From
$1.8 Billion in Fintech investments in 2010 to an investment of $5.2 Billion in
the first quarter of 2016 alone. Investments ranged from seed money for Fintech
startups to takeovers by traditional banks, to banks’ internal research and
development.
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Sarah Perez
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TechCrunch
The fourth quarter is always the
busiest for e-commerce businesses, with the biggest sales and more consumers
than the year prior turning to the web and mobile devices to complete their
holiday shopping. This year proves no different, according to the latest
holiday sales forecast, which estimates that nearly half (47%) of consumers
will shop online this season, 33 percent of them from mobile devices.
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BI Intelligence
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BI Intelligence
The EDCi 2016, published on Friday,
ranks European cities by how well they support digital entrepreneurship, and
how attractive they are to fintech founders and companies. It is based on 10
core metrics, including skills, access to capital, business environment,
digital infrastructure, mentoring, market, and entrepreneurial culture.
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Samburaj Das
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CryptoCoinsNews
Morgan Stanley could be the latest
bank to join the ranks with Goldman Sachs and Banco Santander to leave the R3
blockchain consortium, a report has revealed.
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PYMNTS
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PYMNTS
This is the season for giving and for
scamming. With the holidays around the corner, ACI Worldwide is warning that
U.S. retailers should brace for a 43 percent growth in fraudulent activity
online this holiday season compared with last year. The data, which is based on
hundreds of millions of transactions from retailers around the world, found
that card-not-present U.S. online fraud attempt rates are forecasted to
increase 43 percent by volume over the same peak holiday period last year.
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John F. Wasik
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The New York Times
Who says the most useful start-up
ideas come from millennials fresh from dropping out of Stanford? Some recent
tech-based financial innovations haven’t come from venture capitalists or young
hotshots but rather from professionals who have toiled away in their industry
for decades.
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Josh Einiger
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ABC7
Madison Square Garden disclosed
Tuesday it was involved in a massive credit card breach at four of its venues
in New York City that lasted almost a year. The venue said it found signs of
external unauthorized access in the last week of October.
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