Fintech Takes
Fintech Takes offers insightful analysis on fintech trends, along with a heaping pile of pop culture references and copious footnotes, every Monday and Thursday. Courtesy of industry analyst and habitual question asker — Alex Johnson.
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ChatGPT is just endlessly entertaining.
Pretty good!
Kevin Moss (my go-to expert on all things credit and lending) is going to be talking about how fintech is driving the credit bureaus to evolve in a webinar next week with Equifax and Fintech Nexus.
You can register, for free, here: https://go.fintechnexus.com/Fintech-Innovations-Press-Credit-Reporting-Evolution-Equifax
This is amazing.
Apple wants 30% of the gas fees that consumers are paying to send NFTs from the Coinbase Wallet iOS app.
Wow.
Thanks for flagging this @brunoswerneck!
You might have noticed you can't send NFTs on Coinbase Wallet iOS anymore. This is because Apple blocked our last app release until we disabled the feature. 🧵
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