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#FinTech Friday Ep7: Facebook’s Crypto Play, PayPal is Pinterested, acronym of the week #ETF


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  1.  Facebook’s Novi Crypto Wallet 
    • https://www.protocol.com/fintech/facebook-novi-wallet 
    • Announced with Coinbase as custodian, and Paxos’ USDP stablecoin
    • Originally intended to launch with Diem  
    • Immediately prompted legislators to call on Facebook to halt the pilot 
      • Timing is bad with whistleblower and Facebook Oversight Board issues 
    • Facebook’s metaverse rebrand
      • https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse 

 

  1. PayPal is Pinterested 
  • https://www.reuters.com/technology/paypal-looking-buy-digital-pinboard-site-pinterest-bloomberg-news-2021-10-20/ 
  • Super App aspirations. Pinterest is great for product discovery.
  • Commerce play 

 

  1. Acronym of the week: ETF 
  • Exchange Traded Fund 
  • First bitcoin ETF: ProShares Bitcoin Strategy
  • Bitcoin futures contracts 
  • Indication of more cryptocurrency financial products to come

 

  1. What’s coming up?  
  • Money 20/20 happening next week in Vegas. 
    • Not attending but have briefings set up and expect some good announcements 
  • Next podcast take a look into the CFPB probe into big tech in regards to payments and super apps data 
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