As the "Telling Vital Stories" Writer's Workshop begins, I'm fascinated by the life of legendary urban activist Jane Jacobs, whose research, writing and advocacy for American city development inspired the creation of the Center for the Living City. Ford Foundation John S. and James L. Knight Foundation University of North Carolina at Charlotte   #UrbanInstitute #journalism #media #storytelling #cities #CenterForTheLivingCity …see more

'Coding is a new language; every child deserves to be fluent.' For more information about SAP 's Africa Code Week , check out the link below... #Africa #computercoding #education #STEM #AfricaCodeWeek #SAP …see more

The world's top mobile money platform, Kenya's M-Pesa, is so successful regulators worry it could disrupt the economy http://nzzl.us/3DJYqMn via Quartz Africa

Thrilled to announce that I'm starting the Think For Yourself webinar series this week on Wednesday, April 15, at 3pm Eastern. My first guest is going to be Ali S. Khan , Dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and author of The Next Pandemic. To join the webinar, please register: https://lnkd.in/dURggwt #pandemicpreparedness #ncov2019 #uncertainty #pandemics #publichealth …see more

so this happened, managed on our side by Patrick Pinschmidt we participated alongside QED Investors and Yusuf Ozdalga who led the round, and Speedinvest and Stefan Klestil amongst others. we are excited to build the fintech ecosystem in Ireland, and to support Wayflyer and Aidan Corbett Jack Pierse go team!!! #fintech #lending #financialservices #ecommerce …see more

David Solomon should DJ live on Peloton, thereby building a defensive moat around Goldman Sachs. fight me.

i would like to think startup founders would say no to Facebook, but i know my expectations are unrealistic.

a natural move, a strategic move. SMEs & merchants should be treated as strategic clients. #payments #fintech #banking #SME #merchants #banks

the current tech IPO window is ushering a new venture capital model. just look at the IPOs that did well vs those that did poorly out of the gates: - Zoom, well received, minimal capital raise over its life. - Uber, not well received, raised oodles of VC money with very few constraints. up and coming fintech startups, please take notice. this probably applies to new ICO incarnations too (however compliant these may be). …see more

think about this for a second. remittances are bigger than fdi, or capital markets or official foreign aid. from Axios

few things that always puzzle me: - how many non banks liberally use the word bank to describe themselves - how many definitions of what a bank is have little to do with what a bank is.

We all have a role to play in building a more #equitable future, as Marshall's Susan Harmeling reminds us through her reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

When Congress was debating the Republican tax bill back in 2017, one of chief arguments made by proponents was that cutting corporate tax rates would lead to a surge in investment. But two years later, there has been no sign of that surge. In fact, investment has fallen this year, and a New York Times analysis of securities filings from the S&P500 found no relationship between the size of a company’s tax cut and the investments they made. If anything, the companies that received the biggest tax cuts increased their capital investment by less, on average, than companies that got smaller cuts. Few companies were more vocal in their advocacy for the tax bill than FedEx . The company’s CEO, Fred Smith, hit the airwaves and op-ed pages promoting the benefits of lower corporate taxes. For FedEx, it paid off — the company cut its tax bill to zero in the 2018 fiscal year. But it invested less than it projected before the bill passed, even as it increased dividends and buybacks. For more on our analysis, including FedEx’s response, see my story with Jim Tankersley and Peter Eavis in The New York Times : …see more

Inimitable style of story telling... One may not agree with everything in the book but a compelling reading. This is what NS Vishwanathan, former RBI Deputy governor, says on #Pandemonium : The Great Indian Banking Tragedy. Happy reading. #financialstability #indianbanking #interestrates #economy #debt #banks #recession #financialinclusion #financialservices #frauds #governance #consolidatio …see more

Banker-turned-academician Ananth Narayan on #Pandemonium :The Great Indian Banking Tragedy. Happy reading #financialstability #indianbanking #interestrates #banks #economy #finance #financialservices #money #fraud #governance #consolidation #insolvencylaw …see more

The consumer’s shift to digital and touchless shopping started long before the pandemic, but shifted into high gear once the physical economy shut down in March. New PYMNTS data from a study fielded in mid-September suggests that those digital shifts have forced big merchants to meet them on their digital and touchless turf. Consumers report having digital-first shopping and dining experiences that are as much as two and a half times better than they were in May – further assuring that digital-first will soon become the way consumers and merchants do business. …see more

Uber started a revolution in #payments , and now it’s up to other retailers and service providers to keep the momentum going. In a new PYMNTS #Masterclass video episode, Tom Villante , CEO and co-founder of Yapstone , describes how making payments invisible is only the start of what a powerful #platform payments experience must be for consumers and the services-based #marketplaces that like and want to use it. Full Article: https://bit.ly/2nwNv4w …see more

It’s not easy to last two decades in any business — particularly when it’s a business one didn’t know anything about on Day One. Green Dot Founder and CEO Steven Streit tells me as the firm marks 20 years, that what will pave the way for another two decades is about evolving what started as a prepaid business for kids in 1999 into a global Banking-as-a-Service platform. …see more

Seventy-two years ago, the courts ruled that the largest retailer in the world — The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company — violated antitrust laws, and for a very peculiar reason: Its innovations lowered prices for consumers. Consumers weren’t complaining, but competitors were. That verdict did little to stop the A&P train, until 30 years later when something else did: the consumer. There’s a lot that innovators and regulators can learn from the A&P story. …see more

The Netflix  blockbuster series Stranger Things introduced the world to a parallel universe: the Upside Down. There, the world looked real, but much scarier — and those who entered and left were never quite the same. Recent developments in #payments this summer suggested that we, too, might be living in our own parallel universe. It’s the only explanation for — well, why spoil the surprise. The big question: Will we ever be the same? …see more