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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The Next Evolution of Prescreen
The first piece of fintech content that I ever wrote was a white paper – Operational Excellence: The Prescreen Revolution….
Whoops!
3 Fintech News Stories #1: Enabling Discernment Without Permitting Discrimination What happened? A group of 20 banks and credit…
Goldman Sachs Was The Sucker
3 Fintech News Stories #1: Consortiums are Cool! What happened? First, this from Sardine: Sardine today announced the formation of…
Apple Needs to Clean Out its Wallet
What’s the difference between a wallet and a passbook? We all know what a wallet is – a place to…
Did Robinhood Get a Good Deal?
#1: Did Robinhood Get a Good Deal? What happened? Robinhood made an acquisition: Robinhood announced on Thursday that it was…
A Review of Fintech Takes’ Theories
I’m coming up on four years of writing Fintech Takes, and, in that time, I’ve come up with a lot…
We (Don’t) Want Your Business!
3 Fintech News Stories #1: One-Click ID Verification What happened? Plaid introduced a new feature within its ID verification product:…
The Only Way to Win is to Not Play
In 1995, Jim Barksdale was pitching Netscape to a room full of investment bankers. The company was in the final…
A Fintech x Franchises Crossover!
I am incredibly lucky to get to work with the Wolf of Franchises, an industry insider who has spent his…
The OCC Knows What BaaS Is
In September of last year, I wrote an essay in my newsletter titled – Does the OCC Know What BaaS…
