Fintech Takes
Fintech Takes is a twice-weekly newsletter by Alex Johnson, a former credit expert who quit his job to document the future of Fintech.
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Make it Dumber
Let’s say it’s 2019, and you’ve decided you want to build a neobank. What kind of neobank might you build?…
I’ll Have What She’s Having
3 Fintech News Stories #1: I’ll Have What She’s Having What happened? Buzzy fintech startup X1 has raised more money:…
A Microcosm for Fintech
If you had to pick one company to use as an example to explain everything that has happened in fintech…
Young People Don’t Like Old Tech
Three Fintech News Stories #1: A New Type of Liability Shift What happened? The big banks are devising some new…
A Heaping Plateful of Fintech Takes
Ok, here’s the plan. I’m going to lay out a draft schedule for Thanksgiving Day and then pair fintech content…
Don’t Chase a Bad Hand
3 Fintech News Stories #1: Attacking Money-adjacent Problems What happened? Daylight raised a Series A: Daylight, a digital bank that…
Fintech’s Steroid Era
There have only been six times in the nearly 150-year history of professional baseball that a player has hit more…
The People’s Financial Institution
3 Fintech News Stories #1: PayPal Wins. Apple Wins More. What happened? Apple and PayPal have made up: PayPal and…
The Evolutionary Imperative to be Boring
The job in banking, as I have recently written, is to provide a safe place for customers to keep, access,…
Two Camps
3 Fintech News Stories #1: Two Camps What happened? Zest AI, a fintech infrastructure company founded in 2009, raised $50…
