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Bank of Dave, crowdfunding, Dave Fishwick, peer to peer lending, UK banking regulation
Banking Regulation, Financial Innovation, Free Banking

Bank of Dave

Kevin Dowd/September 27, 2016September 28, 2016 /9 Comments

Tom Clougherty's recent Alt-M post on competition (or the lack thereof) in UK banking nicely highlights the problem posed by barriers to entry into the British banking industry. That there is indeed an entry problem should be obvious from the fact that Metro Bank, which opened in…

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development finance, M-PESA, mobile money, permissionless innovation, Safaricom
Digital Money, Financial Innovation, Free Banking

Finance for All: Kenya's M-PESA

Scott Burns/June 28, 2016June 27, 2016 /3 Comments

A surprising aspect of modern life in Africa is that, thanks to the telecom deregulations of the early 2000s, cell phones are as pervasive in its Sub-Saharan savannahs as they are in the urban jungles of the United States.  More intriguingly still, African mobile network operators (MNOs)…

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Blockchain, Capital Requirments, Chinese banking, FinTech, P2P, Lending
Financial Innovation, Financial Markets, Free Banking

What China Can Teach Us About the Future of Banking

Julien Noizet/May 11, 2016June 23, 2016 /10 Comments

A few weeks ago, Citi published a quite fascinating 100-page report on financial innovations, from blockchain to P2P lending, in various regions of the world.  It's a highly recommended and very comprehensive reading that I won't be able to summarize in a short blog post. From this…

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