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A group about everything related to embedded finance.
There’s an all-too-common scenario that pervades the payments landscape: acquirers blindly falling into a commodity trap. This unwanted outcome occurs when a financial institution that processes credi...
There’s a portmanteau that perfectly describes the challenger banks that emerged from the ashes of the 2008 financial crisis: the fusion of neo and banks to create neobanks. The use of neo – another w...
If you’ve bought something online through an online retailer or through a merchant’s web site or app and you’ve selected to buy now and pay later with interest free instalments, a micro-loan is create...
Abstract The financial services industry has seen significant growth in the embedded finance space for the past decade. The growth areas are mostly in the embed payments, insurance, and credit but are...
The embedded finance market has been growing at pace since 2020. COVID proved to be a crucial catalyst, accelerating e-commerce, financial digitalisation, and consumers’ changing expectations. To add ...
The modern e-commerce landscape has rapidly evolved to offer consumers faster, simpler and more secure payment methods. Rather than cumbersome bank transfers and checks, consumers can now make seamles...
If the confrontational posture of the title to this blog has you reading this opening sentence, then it can lay claim to having performed its job. However, it’s worth quickly explaining that it was on...
The brutal combination of high energy prices, high inflation, soaring interest rates, and global economic weakness has made the UK economy ripe for a recession until the middle of next year, according...
Such has been the stratospheric growth of embedded finance over the last 10 years, it was perhaps always inevitable that it would sprout new limbs and infiltrate other areas of money management from l...
The first principle you learn as a Product Manager is a simple one: how to say no. Steve Jobs famously said “I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation ...
When a forecast on the development of the embedded insurance market appeared in December 2020, an outcry went through the industry. The prediction: the potential market value of companies that enable...
Last month it was announced that Instagram is introducing a ‘payments in chat’ feature, where users can purchase products from businesses and track orders via the direct message function. Initially be...