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Google Pay Co-founders’ Indian Neobank Has Raised $13.2M

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The startup was founded in May and will introduce a digital banking blueprint concentrated on serving millennials in India, Narayanan told TechCrunch. When we were building Google Tez, we realized that a consumer’s financial journey extends beyond digital payments. billion citizens outside the financial system. .

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Change Keeping Global Banks On Their Toes

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Demonetization in India has financial institutions operating at full speed to exchange out discontinued bank notes but with some unexpectedly pleasant consequences. banks, meanwhile, have risen in financial stability regulators’ ranks for how much of a risk they pose to the global financial system should they fail.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. And in 2017, those investments were off-the-charts nuts. Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S.,

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Filtering Down To The Most Impact-Weighted Work To Add Value

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So just most technology has been a little bit more either the pipes and infrastructure of how the financial system runs or something that lets people buy the products that they want to buy because they can just go online and buy it. But there’s this new emergence of advice- and advisor-oriented technology firms.

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Why It’s Time To Come Down On Bitcoin

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More than $1 billion was invested in bitcoin ventures in 2015 alone and billions more in the blockchain technologies that underpin the ledgers that record bitcoin transactions. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. Experts believe that number could double again in 2017.

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