The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has become the world leader in fintech research, known for their thorough reports on most areas of alternative finance. This year, with the pandemic raging, they undertook their most ambitious project yet. Together with the World Bank the CCAF have published the Global COVID-19 FinTech Regulatory Rapid Assessment […]
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Podcast 270: Tim Flacke of Commonwealth
The low and middle income consumer has been struggling for decades. And while the pandemic has made things a lot worse there is a great deal of work being done to try to improve their situation. One of the key pieces is savings, as a country we simply do not save enough. Our next guest […]
Podcast 269: Arjun Kakkar of Ekata
This year the world has moved online. But it is not just consumers that have made this move, it is the fraudsters as well. They have taken advantage of a dislocated business environment without historical precedent to wreak havoc. To fight these fraudsters you need ever more sophisticated tools. Our next guest on the Lend […]
Podcast 268: Matt Potere of Sunlight Financial
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