Rolands Mesters
@RolandsMesters
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Building BirdyChat, a modern work chat app for professionals. All views my own.
Riga
Joined April 2019
[research] Open banking regulation leads to more fintech VC investments.
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“In 2022 we will realise how open banking provides a useful 21st-century model for acting against the monopoly power over data. The way to deal with Big Tech will not be to break them up, but to open them up.” https://t.co/PMzpxCG88F Via @WIREDUK #WIREDWorld2022
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Was about to re-read PGs “Startup=Growth” and saw that it has an Estonian translation. This is such nice and subtle branding for Estonia as a tech nation. #Estonia
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🏦 The past year #openbanking was criticized for relatively slow introduction of services and low impact on innovation. At a certain point, open banking was called an outright failure. @RolandsMesters has something to say about all of that! @AltFiNews
https://t.co/qkr6ku2NLk
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Open banking will make every bank account programmable. IFTTT for all money.
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Closed banking: Bank accounts are used for storing assets. Open banking: Bank accounts become assets themselves.
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Open banking makes bank accounts more valuable. The number of things you can do/unlock with your bank account is growing daily.
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Thought I can't get out of my head What if open banking is the real on ramp to Web 3?
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“With unfettered access to consumer account data through screen scraping, consumers sacrifice basic protections such as privacy and security and are at higher risk of fraudulent activity.” via @bankpolicy
https://t.co/GKl5HlFNj0
bpi.com
The phrase “open banking” is used a lot these days, as policymakers push for consumers to have better control over their banking information, allowing
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US @CFPB to query tech giants over financial data https://t.co/Oq82V2yO6e
#openbanking #openfinance #financialdata #DailyEdit⭐️
reuters.com
The U.S. consumer watchdog is expected this week to query tech giants including Facebook, Amazon and Google on how they handle consumer financial data as part of a broader effort to boost consumer...
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A new report released today by @GoogleStartups, @atomico and @dealroomco reveals that tech companies from central and Eastern Europe are now valued at more than €186bn.💰 Sifted’s @KitGillet explores central and eastern Europe’s success.👇 #cee
https://t.co/PLprLqywSv
sifted.eu
Money is pouring in to central and eastern European startups, with 2021 likely to be their most lucrative year ever, a new report has found
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"If open banking comes to Canada, this could make it easier for fintechs and banks to offer embedded insurance and it will be hard to stop firms from using open banking data for underwriting purposes" Because it just makes so much sense to use it. https://t.co/ZPckY7JBaQ
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25/ Europe already up 87% vs 2020 And we got a quarter to go Boom goes the dynamite
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.@authologic teams up with @nordigen to leverage the company's open banking technology to enable its clients to verify their identity online.
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Payments goliath Mastercard has launched its highly anticipated buy-now-pay-later feature that gives fintechs the opportunity to include installments in their offering, threatening to leave established BNPL players looking at their expiration dates. https://t.co/yX1WVBDu9J
verdict.co.uk
Mastercard has launched its highly anticipated buy-now-pay-later feature, threatening to leave established BNPL players looking for their expiration dates.
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3/ "Banks must lead the charge" They can sit in the car, but they should not be the driver - it should be the fintechs instead, they can move faster. What fintechs now have a whole infrastructure for connectivity and the support from regulators to use it. It's now time to build.
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