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In the face of fierce competition from fintechs, many African mobile money providers are contemplating offering savings products and loans, becoming branchless "neobanks" and filling the gap left by traditional retail banks.
Sam Bankman-Fried, crypto’s boy wonder, lured in big names before it all collapsed.
Markets rise, and markets fall. This much, at least, is well-known. But why do market cycles occur? What causes the pendulum to swing from euphoria to crisis and back? Hyman Minsky was a 20th-century economist whose ‘financial instability hypothesis’ is probably the best-known explanation for the boom and bust cycles that characterize public financial markets. But there’s far less examination — in fact, there's almost none — of how Minsky dynamics apply to
Tiger Global is venture capital's winning machine.
Posted on “How’s work going?” As we emerge from the pandemic, it’s the common casual question that many of us receive when we reconnect with our friends. I find I am struggling to answer it concisely. In my over twenty-five years in the startup and venture capital (VC) industry, I have never seen anything like this moment that we are in. To answer this friendly inquiry in as clear and open a manner as possible, the only word that comes to mind is velocity. As everyone who took high school physics knows, velocity is the rate of change of an object’s position over a period of t...