{"id":17275,"date":"2023-09-01T12:18:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T12:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=17275"},"modified":"2023-09-01T12:18:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T12:18:04","slug":"can-x-become-a-financial-super-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/can-x-become-a-financial-super-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Can X Become a Financial Super App?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s rebranding of Twitter into X is part of an effort to create an expansive &#8220;everything app&#8221; that encompasses social media, e-commerce, payments and banking. The move is seen as necessary for Twitter&#8217;s transformation into a broader platform that facilitates a new range of opportunities. However, the shift from Twitter to X also raises questions about trust, especially in financial services. The regulatory complexities and the challenge of retaining user trust (along an increased potential for payment fraud) pose hurdles to Musk&#8217;s super app aspirations. The success of this approach, reminiscent of the East Asian super app WeChat, remains uncertain in the West.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-17275 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Bank BGZ BNP Paribas leading the way with fintech and startups'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bank-bgz-bnp-paribas-leading-the-way-with-fintech-and-startups\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BNP-Paribas-International-Hackathon-querona-2-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-8581\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-8581'>\n\t\t\t\tBank BGZ BNP Paribas leading the way with fintech and startups\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='5 payment trends COVID-19 is pushing into reality'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/5-payment-trends-covid-19-is-pushing-into-reality\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/overhead-view-hands-holding-card-reader-credit-card-wooden-table_23-21478744491-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-15253\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/overhead-view-hands-holding-card-reader-credit-card-wooden-table_23-21478744491-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/overhead-view-hands-holding-card-reader-credit-card-wooden-table_23-21478744491-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/overhead-view-hands-holding-card-reader-credit-card-wooden-table_23-21478744491.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-15253'>\n\t\t\t\t5 payment trends COVID-19 is pushing into reality\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Overview of the World FinTech Report 2021 (Video)'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/overview-of-the-world-fintech-report-2021-video\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/7DURjN1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-16075\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-16075'>\n\t\t\t\tOverview of the World FinTech Report 2021 (Video)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s rebranding of Twitter into X is part of an effort to create an expansive &#8220;everything app&#8221; that encompasses social media, e-commerce, payments and banking. The move is seen as necessary for Twitter&#8217;s transformation into a broader platform that facilitates a new range of opportunities. However, the shift from Twitter to X also raises &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17243,"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\/17275"}],"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=17275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17276,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275\/revisions\/17276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}