🎉 Apple No Show at BNPL Party
Apple Pay Later was nowhere to see in the iOS 16 release. When can you see it? Apple: Later. Why the delay? Per Mark Gurman from...
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Frank Tian
Sep 11, 20221 min
🍎 Apple Pay Grows Big - How Big?
Recently an article about Apple Pay volume overtaking MasterCard is quickly circulating. Well, it is not an Apple-to-Apple comparison....
Frank Tian
Aug 12, 20221 min
🍎 Apple’s Inches Into Finance Are Closely Watched.
Apple’s Breakout (from the existing financial system) project was first reported by Bloomberg back in March 2022. Since then, regulators,...
Frank Tian
Jul 31, 20221 min
BIS on Big Tech Risk
🚩 Risk Rising from Technology Efficiency BIS recently published a report to warn about the risk of growing dependencies on big techs -...
Frank Tian
Jul 15, 20222 min
Meta's Crypto Journey
Meta is shutting down its crypto wallet Novi on Sep. 1st. This shouldn’t be surprising after its crypto ambition evaporated. Here is a...
Frank Tian
Jun 20, 20222 min
Apple Late for the Pay Later Party
Apple rolled out its own BNPL product - “Apple Pay Later”. It is a questionable move, given the timing and the strategic shift. 🚩...
Frank Tian
Apr 20, 20221 min
Apple Breaking Away From Existing Financial System?
Apple has a new venture called “Breakout” Aiming to launch its own payment processing infrastructure Other targeted in-house tasks...
Frank Tian
Mar 8, 20221 min
iPhone as iPOS, not iBank
Apple is introducing Tap to Pay in the US. Holders can tap iPhones to make/accept payments. This aims to expand the payment use...
Frank Tian
Jan 27, 20222 min
Diem Dies in Meta.
Meta (previous Facebook) gave up the Diem stablecoin, The watered-down version of the once-ambitious Libra global coin. Why? Increased...
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