Fintech trends for 2018

This week I wanted to jot some thoughts on what I expect for 2018. Most of these are continuations of trends from the previous year, some obvious and some hopefully not so obvious.

1) The cryptocurrency market will collide with regulation — and I wouldn’t be…

Introduction to US Payment Systems Resources

Updated 2.26.18

I keep a list of payment resources in an email that I send out to anyone that’s interested in an introduction to payments, and figured it might be useful to expose publicly. I’m always trying to find more…

Financial services in the age of Amazon

TLDR: It seems that Amazon is testing out new revenue + cost savings models in a low-risk manner by partnering with existing financial institutions, to potentially build the bank of the digital future. And other random thoughts.

An (extremely personally biased) guide to selling to banks

A Basic Framework for Banking as a Platform

Over the past few weeks, I’ve met with a few people at various banks, technology companies, and startups that have asked me what’s the value of having an API platform for banks. I like putting things into basic frameworks and I’ve started to develop a…

Why I’m bullish on fintech — 2017

I was recently chatting with a lot of people around why I’m still excited about fintech, and I…