Payments Monitor

Daily #Podcast: Mike Tyson launches a Bitcoin wallet with Bitcoin Direct, China’s stock market still swinging after yesterday’s crisis, Kenyan shilling shows signs of remaining stable after dollar influxes by NGOs. Orange Bank, Paypal + Aramex and more.

A very brief overview of last year and what can we expect this year in the world of banking, payments and fintech.

Daily #Podcast: Will oil breach the $30 floor? The Federal Reserve might be planning to raise interest rates for the first time since the Great Depression - the .bank domain is finally available - how decentralized ledger and the world of instant payments is changing the landscape for payments & banking.

Daily #Podcast: Has the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto been revealed? TransferWise gets two money transmitter licenses in the US, Money Laundering - How big of a problem it is in the US, Turkey & Iran - comparing # of POS deployed. Sweden's war on Cash and Microsoft embraces Ripple on Blockchain-as-a-Service.

Daily #Podcast: Xoom is coming to Bangladesh while M-Pesa will soon begin services in Ghana. Abn Amro Bank to allow signing up with a Selfie, oil prices edging closer to 2015 low, Argentina president aims to dismantle currency controls and some insights from the Mobile Money global conference in Istanbul.

Daily #Podcast: BBVA Bancomer Mexico and Gemalto announce first rollout of Dynamic Code Verification Solution, Bank of England challenges students to create a blockchain solution, Wechat launches mobile wallet in South Africa, China’s Shanghai Composite Index sinks 5.5 percent, Will Britain spend over 1 Billion Pounds on Black Friday?

Today’s #Podcast: Barclays gets fined again. Goldman Sachs charges staffer, Hilton Hotel has a data breach, VISA experiments with blockchain and Remittances, SWIFT says Virtual Currencies not ready for EU Regulations, $60 Million is the asking price for the large uncut diamond and Thanksgiving in US today with shopping season kick-off tomorrow.

Daily #Podcast: Distributed Ledger Technology could render the Central Banks useless (cites a BIS report), Spanish Bank BBVA now owns nearly 30% of UK Challenger Bank: Atom, Samsung Pay adds more issuers, Apply Pay plans to launch in China and Jeff Bezos rockets lands back. Turkey's action with the downing of Russian jet, causes markets to fall, and oil to move up slightly, and in closing thoughts, the Saudi stubbornness on oil production.

Daily #Podcast: Diebold agrees to $1.8 Billion takeover of Wincor-Nixdorf, China could be heading for a Yuan devaluation, Coinbase issues Bitcoin Debit Card, Brazil might regulate Bitcoin, Jack Ma wants a piece of SCMP, Argentina's fever or optimism is high, Discover Around The Coin and Where is Bitcoin going?

Daily #Podcast: China cracks down on $64 Billion “underground bank”, top 20 non-bank money transfer providers based in the UK now account for over £40 billion of foreign exchange per year, Martha Stewart moves to Amazon’s Handmade platform, Dunkin’ Donuts testing a mobile ordering app, world’s 2nd largest uncut diamond discovered in Botswana, MIT now offers a degree in Fintech, Samsung Pay coming to budget phones & Square makes its debut.

Daily #Podcast: Barclay's gets fined US$ 150 Million by NY's DFS. Nigeria's central bank cuts back on US Dollar supplies, EU seeking a crackdown on Bitcoin. Most US shoppers will use Amazon.com this holiday season, and UK Government's report cites Bitcoin "pose lowest money laundering risk"

Daily #Podcast: Barclays facing another fine, Western Union and Wechat to offer cross border payments service, Silicon Valley Bank survey shows 43% think red tape is main hurdle to growth in fintech growth, Blockchain startup Align Commerce raises $12.5 million, Viber might be jumping into the payments game and Groupon continues its exit from Nordic countries.

Daily #Podcast: Webmoney gets an e-money license, Bank of Canada concerned over Bitcoin, Baidu and Citic Bank forming a bank, FCA wants firms to use cloud services, Bitcoin price on the rise again and IMF approves China’s Renminbi as a reserve currency.

Daily #Podcast: Rakuten’s $100 M Fintech Fund, Blackstone invests in NCR, China shopping in the West, Visa Europe looking into blockchain for remittances, Overstock spinning away its blockchain division Medici and global oil inventories reach record level.

Daily #Podcast: Today, Alibaba shatters records, Apple in talks with US banks for P2P mobile money transfers, China opening doors for foreign payment networks, Aite’s new report about P2P payments in the US, Microsoft is allowing access to Ethereum for Bitcoin and blockchain and Brian Roemmele’s new Pay Finder app.

Daily #Podcast: Today, Deutsche Bank troubles, Facebook’s revenue growth, Blackberry reboot, Square IPO, Amazon & Payoneer partnership and latest data showing a surge in the US jobs market in October.

Daily #Podcast: Today, 40% of China’s e-commerce products are fake, Oberthur postpones IPO, today’s Bitcoin price highest this year, VISA Checkout hits 7 million users, the missing billions of Malaysia’s 1MDB and thoughts on Bernard Lunn’s Daily Fintech blog.

Daily Podcast: Today, surging price of Bitcoin, Standard Chartered layoffs, Germany’s alternative to Paypal, Chasepay, cutting off credit rating for 8 largest banks, Candy Crush acquired by Activision and Amazon’s first physical store.

Daily Podcast: Today, VISA buying VISA Europe, FBI blowback on Alert, Turkey’s elections & the Lira, China’s first airplane, HSBC results, Facebook “Local Market” Bitcoin’s new price high & Mr. Monopoly.

Daily Podcast: Today, Chinese Yuan biggest rise since 2005, Bitcoin hits a new high for 2015, Amazon’s “Pay with Amazon”, UBS says London/Hong-Kong property bubble cometh, Legal Marijuana and access to banking in the US, Apple opens its flagship stores in the Middle-East.