Twenty-something fintech questions on my mind

Sven Severing
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1 min readMar 9, 2016
  • Where is the future of consumer (incl. small business) finance headed?
  • Do consumers “care” about banks anymore?
  • How can we increase financial inclusion?
  • Why don’t consumers “engage” with their finances?
  • Is finance in the U.S. “disingenuous”?
  • Are regulations / the regulatory system the great inhibitor?
  • Where is the distribution of consumer financial products headed?
  • Will product solutions for the biggest challenges emerge (e.g., student loans)?
  • Is the key to financial management to disappear it?
  • Do banks believe they will be the single silo?
  • Is solving the payments puzzle the key to the kingdom?
  • Does financial education have a place as a stand-alone product or is it necessarily integrated into finance?
  • What’s more important — cash management or wealth management?
  • Who owns the customer relationship?
  • Is our financial system racist (socio-economic racism)?
  • Will consumers ever “care” enough to solve their own problems?
  • Are payments disappearing?
  • Is this a platform/channel problem?
  • Is the future to “open finance”?
  • Is cash management the biggest problem of all?
  • Is the problem that our historical financial system is no longer relevant?
  • How much does regulation have to change to accommodate the future?
  • Is messenger as a platform the future for finance (and everything else)?

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Sven Severing
* R*E*F*I*T *

Free thinker and life long learner bending corners to see better, obsessed with fintech and financial technology policy