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Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

Open Banking Needs A Blockchain Boost

---------- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This is the first post I've published using the "Insert/edit image" feature I recently found on Finextra Blog Editor. Unlike the old "Assign a picture link" that permits bloggers to add an image only at the bottom of a blog post, the new feature can be used to place an image anywhere in the body of t...

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Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

When Will Fintechs Sell What Consumers Want To Buy?

As soon as my daughter was born, I opened a bank account in her name. As a minor, her account was held jointly in her parents' name all these years. My daughter turned 18 recently. I went to the bank to change the account status to "major" and apply for a credit card in her name. This is what happened. Majority My daughter and I had to ma...

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Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

PayTM Shows How Fintechs Can Lose Trust

As we saw in Feature Or Bug - Facebook & Tideplus (hyperlink removed to comply with Finextra Community Rules but this post should appear on top of Google Search results when searched by its title), #FeatureOrBug refers to a feature that masquerades as a bug. To recap: As brands increasingly adopt personalization in their communications, what y...

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Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

Flight Delay Insurance - Why Blockchain?

I covered two Blockchain flight delay insurance products in AXA Fizzy - The New Kid On The Blockchain and Atlas Etherisc – Another New Kid On The Blockchain. In this post, I’ll address the “Why Blockchain?” question. Here’s a quick recap of the background to this question from the first post: ===== ...the techie in me started wondering what stopp...

Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

Atlas Etherisc - Another New Kid On The Blockchain

At the end of my blog post entitled AXA Fizzy - The New Kid On The Blockchain, I'd promised to answer the “Why Blockchain?” question in a follow-on post. I'm not fulfilling that promise yet. Frequent readers of this blog would be aware that it's light on research and heavy on personal experience and anecdotal evidence. For reasons highlighted in m...

Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

AXA Fizzy - The New Kid On The Blockchain

I've been asked many times to write about my Blockchain experience. That is not strictly true. I've been asked only twice, most recently by a man in Mumbai, Maharashtra. How can I write about the Blockchain experience, I asked myself on the Deccan Queen returning to Pune, when most of the founders of the Blockchain companies are too busy writing wh...

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