Tag: Consumer Finance
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Remarkable future of credit cards: Interview with David Boyd
Credit cards have been around for quite a while. These little pieces of plastics started to be issued as early as the 1920s by stores to let loyal customers spend more easily. Fast forward to today, and things have changed quite a lot. And not so much at the same time. Of the 2.8 billion…
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Big Tech in Financial Services
Beware, Big Tech is here to eat your lunch. That is today’s equivalent for the financial services industry of the great communist threat during the Cold War. What’s behind “Big Tech” then? Usually, we mean FAMGA: Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Some people instead look at FAANG: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. Or…