I always keep saying, we don’t read enough of our history, but then again, we only have so much time. When one hears about the East India Company, we automatically equate the same to the British and their rule over…
Introducing Libra and Calibra Well. The inevitable moment arrived. Facebook has formally announced their plans to build a cross-border payment system that utilizes a form of stable coin, cryptocurrency and blockchain. A global currency called Libra, and the wallet that will…
Running a successful business isn’t easy. With a large number of jobs that need to be completed every day as well as staff to keep on top of there are a number of reasons why your business finances need to…
I did a presentation on this long ago (The original presentation can be downloaded from here: Uberization of Money Transfer: 12 Questions every small and medium, independent money transfer operator should ask themselves). For months I’ve been thinking of doing…
A question usually asked is How does my fee work? Here is the straight forward and candid answer. How I Used to Charge… Usually, I used to work on a success based model. Let me explain what that means. This…
The good folks at PayActiv put this infographic out a couple of days ago. Worth sharing.
The crypto epoch is upon us. Today, more and more financial institutions are starting to wake up to crypto, look at it, and stop dismissing it with a wave of their hand. Very recently, Bank of Lithuania, which had a…
More than Open-Banking, we need an Open-Minded Regulator. It seems if you are anyone associated in the fintech industry, a day does not go by when you hear the word open-banking. Today, open-banking is akin (IMHO) to the coming of…
Over the last couple of years, I have been extremely active towards contributing meaningful content on Quora (over 5,000+ answers are there). In addition to Quora, I have about 4,000-5,000 additional posts on the internet on various blogs, etc. If…
If you’ve never sent money to someone across the world using crypto, then it is something I would suggest you must try. In the modern world of email that we live in, sending money via crypto is the equivalent of…