Pulse: Industry


FinTech Ubiquity

Things to look for in 2017 include progress on faster payments in the United States, greater regulatory scrutiny of FinTech here and abroad, and blockchain use cases put into action. FinTech firms will continue to shake up the way consumers invest, insure, and conduct transactions—and card payments will continue to rule.

Living Up to the Hype

2017 is almost here! With the end of 2016 comes a wave of grand predictions for next year. As President-elect Donald Trump enters the White House and selects his cabinet members, the future of banking regulations remains uncertain, which could lead banks and FinTech firms to polish current service offerings rather than create new ones.

EconVue Outlook 2017

When you have something particularly wonderful to introduce, I believe the introduction should be as short as possible. Below please find EconVue’s 2017 Forecast.  Our mission has been to bring you the unconventional voices you should be listening to about changes in the global economy.  Thirteen of our EconVue experts share their views on what will be happening in 2017 in energy, health care, fintech, emerging and developed markets, regulation, and especially, in Washington DC.  

Oil Markets Scenarios for 2017-2018

Assessing Impact

As the year quickly comes to a close, news this week takes a step back to assess the impact of APIs on the financial sector, more emerging insurance trends, and FinTech’s impact on the underbanked and unbanked populations in the U.S. and abroad. We also learned that consumers are waking up to digital banking options, but contrary to the push towards digital everything, people still like cash and plastic cards over mobile wallets. Take a look at these insights and more in this week’s FinTech Rising round-up.

Regulatory Guidance - the Differences in Approach to FinTech Regulation in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union

Financial technology evolves into its next stage of maturity in 2017. Where venture investments going to FinTech firms marked progress to date, in the coming year regulatory interest will come to the fore.

Healthcare’s Forecast for 2017

President-Elect Donald Trump ran his campaign on a promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. His recent appointment of Rep. Tom Price, author of the “Empowering Patients First Act”[1], as HHS secretary indicates that he is serious.[2] Price's proposal is a market-based approach that reduces government spending, narrows the range of care that insurers are mandated to cover, offsets premium increases for older, sicker patients with tax credits, caps the employer-tax exclusion, and reverses Medicaid expansion. 

InsureTech Rules

FinTech's insurance sector came to the fore this week. This Google Trends chart and series of tweets tell the story of InsureTech's growth in 2016.

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