Links to Companies Analyzed in Fintech Explained

Adyen’s market multiples of comparable companies

Innovations by Alipay  in payments

Amazon’s path into financial services

Ant Group and Tencent’s multi-sided platforms

Apple’s partnering with incumbents

Bitcoin’s solution to the double-spend problem and price volatility

Credit Karma’s $7 billion multi-sided platform

The DAO Hack questions the immutability of blockchains

Ethereum’s vision and dominance of DeFi

Facebook’s troubles with regulators

Rise and fall of the FTX cryptoexchange

Funding Circle’s financial ratios and performance in online lending

Goldman Sachs’ entry into consumer banking with Marcus

Google’s struggle to find product-market fit

JPMorgan’s value drivers and valuation in traditional banking

Kickstarter’s mission to bring creative projects to life

Lendified’s use of artificial intelligence (AI)

LendingClub’s marketplace lending platform

LUNA’s unstable stablecoin TerraUSD

MakerDAO and Curve Finance’s use-cases

Moven’s  personal finance apps

Nubank building Latin America’s sixth largest bank

Innovations by  Octopus in payments

Paytm’s business model and monetization strategy

R3 Corda’s Permission DLT for regulated financial services

Ripple XRP’s search for a use-case

Robinhood’s commission-free trading for retail

 Sensibill’s  personal finance apps

SoFi’s evolution from P2P lender to full-service bank

 Tencent’s multi-sided platform

Vanguard’s move into robo-advice

Innovations by Vodafone's M-Pesa in payments

Wealthfront’s sophisticated, low-cost financial advice

Robo-advisor Wealthsimple’s seed-stage pitch to angel investors

Wise Financial’s pain point and market opportunity in payments

Innovations by WorldRemit in payments

Zhong An, China’s online-only insurance company