2024-11-18
Great read on Web3 and Tim Berners-Lee from Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt trials its digital wallet in Belgium to let 7M citizens receive social services and share data with businesses, as he worries about AI
The inventor of the World Wide Web is on a laudable mission to give everyone control of their online data. He's fighting an uphill battle. X: @noyesclt . Forums: Hacker News X: To...
2024-08-15
What makes competing with ApplePay so tough ? It's not the tech. It's everything else. Every connection to every party online and offline must work better. Can consumers shut off ApplePay? They could. But why would they. What is their cost to switch? Logically banks should
9to5Mac
Apple says developers can offer NFC transactions using the iPhone's Secure Element, separate from Apple Pay, starting in iOS 18.1, with “associated fees”
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
2021-12-18
CFPB inquiry into BNPL. More than a bit of “regulatory capture” as the big banks complain FinTech's not operating on level playing field. Combine that with “predatory lending” and making it too easy to accumulate more debt. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ ... via @CFPB
CNN
The CFPB probes buy now, pay later practices of Affirm, Afterpay, PayPal, Klarna, and Zip, citing concerns over customers' debt accumulation and data harvesting
Paul R. La Monica / CNN : Source: Consumer Financial … .
2020-12-04
Brilliant move by Stripe + Partners. SMBs have nightmarish problems managing treasury, merchant accounts, cash, chargebacks.. particularly in multiple countries. This will package the “Core” of operational finance for most online businesses.
Wall Street Journal
Stripe launches Treasury to let its customers offer checking accounts and other business-banking services; Shopify will offer the services from early next year
Hello! Today: A new breed of startups is trying to help other startups manage their finances better. Stripe : Stripe launches Stripe Treasury in major expansion of financial servi...