FinTech Weekly - Fintech News Issue #345

Issue #345 - Let's Welcome 2022

2022-01-06

Even if 2021 is now “the past year”, in this newsletter we will spend some words to retrace major 2021 events, since this will help us to better understand where we are going. Fintech will not lose its power in 2022: fintech trends will continue, demonstrating that even if the surge of fintech firms was mainly a response to the pandemic, people’s habits changed for the better and we don’t want to lose the advantages brought by financial technology. In this number of FinTech Weekly we cover some of the main and trending news related to tech and finance: the new NFT market aggregator thought by Samsung, the Bitcoin-related plans of El Salvador, fintech predictions for 2022, the frictionless checkout technology and much, much more.

Top Stories

Samsung announces NFT platform for smart TVs
Samsung announces NFT platform for smart TVs
via Coin Telegraph

On Monday the tech giant Samsung announced that its new smart TVs will have an integrated NFT platform. Users will be able to find, buy and trade non-fungible tokens. Samsung decided to adopt this solution to create a market aggregator for NFTs.

Top Events

Asian Financial Forum
Asian Financial Forum
via Asian Financial Forum

AFF is Asia’s premier platform for global leaders in government, finance and business to exchange insights, intelligence as well as to explore business and investment opportunities.

Podcasts & Videos

FTX CEO: Expect First Batch of Crypto Regulation This Year
FTX CEO: Expect First Batch of Crypto Regulation This Year
via Bloomberg Technology

Emily Chang - host of Bloomberg Technology - meets Sam Bankman-Fried: the CEO of FTX, the popular trading platform, talks about what to expect for the crypto market in 2022, with a focus on regulation.

Why Small Businesses Need Real-Time Finance
Why Small Businesses Need Real-Time Finance
via RedCircle

Julie VerHage-Greenberg interviews Jeff Seibert, co-founder of Digits - a fintech platform that provides real-time accounting for small businesses. They discuss how the pandemic changed the focus of small business and of the fintech firm, and what are the challenges for the future.

Crypto

Why El Salvador Could Approve Bill Package To Support Bitcoin Bonds
Why El Salvador Could Approve Bill Package To Support Bitcoin Bonds
via Bitcoinist

Despite adversities, El Salvador is continuing to improve its Bitcoin program. After the first crypto became legal tender in the country, El Salvador is now thinking about new solutions to reward Bitcoin investors and increase the number of financial instruments based on the cryptocurrency.

Future Fintech Group’s Subsidiary Launches Crypto Market Data Platform
Future Fintech Group’s Subsidiary Launches Crypto Market Data Platform
via Coinspeaker

FTFT Capital Investments LLC - a subsidiary of the Future Fintech Group Inc. - launches a new crypto markets price aggregator - ftftx.com: the platform will provide real-time data and information, tracking not only major cryptos but also hundreds of altcoins, gathering data from hundreds of crypto exchanges.

FinTech

Fintech predictions for the year ahead
Fintech predictions for the year ahead
via Fintech Futures

If we have to see the upside, the pandemic forced firms to focus more on people needs, and to find easy and useful solutions to overcome the many issues that people and businesses were facing - and are facing. Some of the solutions found may continue to be improved even after pandemic, and Fintech Futures covers the main three in this article.

One Year in Fintech: 2021 Funding Success Stories
One Year in Fintech: 2021 Funding Success Stories
via The Fintech Times

Even if 2021 came to an end, we retrace the most important fintech events of the past year with The Fintech Times: the magazine shares the most important funding success stories month by month.

Banking

London’s Fintech Boom Opens the Door for Dirty Money
London’s Fintech Boom Opens the Door for Dirty Money
via Bloomberg

London is one of the cities with more fintech firms and EMIs, electronic money institutions, but the amount of illegal activities in which some of them are involved may prevent the city from becoming a trustworthy authority in the fintech space.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘A question of trust’ – Rod Boothby, Santander in ‘The Fintech Magazine’
EXCLUSIVE: ‘A question of trust’ – Rod Boothby, Santander in ‘The Fintech Magazine’
via Fintech Finance

If financial institutions have so far guarded our financial assets, they could now be able to guard another kind of asset that is becoming more important in our lives: digital identities. Rod Boothby, Global Head of Identity at Santander, is also the co-chair of the Open Digital Trust Initiative and is cooperating to create the Global Assured Identity Network (GAIN).

Innovation

Zippin Targets 100 Checkout-Free Airport Stores To Rival Amazon
Zippin Targets 100 Checkout-Free Airport Stores To Rival Amazon
via Forbes

Among the innovative solutions found by fintech firms there is the frictionless checkout technology, which allows customers to just walk out of a store after purchasing. Zippin is becoming one of the best providers of this technology, and it could even rival Amazon.

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