{"id":15896,"date":"2021-03-24T13:48:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=15896"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:48:57","slug":"fintech-s-boom-beyond-financial-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/fintech-s-boom-beyond-financial-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"FinTech\u2019s Boom Beyond Financial Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A race is on to supply non-FinTechs with backend financial technology that improves customer experiences (e.g. adding financial services to their offering). A good example of this is Shopify, which now generates more than 60% of its revenue from merchant solutions, most of which entail financial services such as payment processing and merchant cash advances. For companies whose customers have a directly-related need for a financial service, such options make sense and easier to use. At the same time, there\u2019s a limit to the number of financial relationships that any consumer or company wants. There are also issues related to how deal with compliance and regulatory issues, how the FinTech market matures and how FinTechs can avoid becoming glorified middlemen in the long term. We are all excited about the prospects of what FinTechs can provide and how they alter traditional relationships. At the same time, there are bound to be growing pains as the sector matures into a more stable environment and better-known overall quantity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-15896 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BFC FinTech Monitor 1st \u2013 18th January'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-1st-18th-january\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/6863-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-15690\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-15690'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor 1st \u2013 18th January\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Fintech Times Releases Middle East &#038; Africa Report 2023'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/fintech-times-releases-middle-east-africa-report-2023\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/e781f019-4ee0-2f41-fc21-817d9a8805131-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-17112\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-17112'>\n\t\t\t\tFintech Times Releases Middle East &#038; Africa Report 2023\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='2019 SME banking innovations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/2019-sme-banking-innovations-in-eastern-europe-and-central-asia\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/d3cac96f-f596-45f9-871b-f7f6f3f1d6fb1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-15129\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-15129'>\n\t\t\t\t2019 SME banking innovations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A race is on to supply non-FinTechs with backend financial technology that improves customer experiences (e.g. adding financial services to their offering). A good example of this is Shopify, which now generates more than 60% of its revenue from merchant solutions, most of which entail financial services such as payment processing and merchant cash advances. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15899,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15896\/revisions\/15899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}