Should President Trump Appoint Secretary of FinTech?
The next president, Donald J. Trump, has a lot on his plate over the next four years. He is still three weeks away from officially becoming the President-elect, and then another month away from becoming the 45th President of the United States. He is receiving advice from every corner of the country, even the globe, and he has a lot of important decisions to make. Might one be creating a regulator for the emerging FinTech industry? Many industry leaders think so, or something along those lines. Trump receives a letter from an alliance of major tech firms. You may not have previously heard....
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Chris Larsen, chief executive of prominent Fintech startup Ripple has, in the lead-in to the upcoming U.S. presidential elections, called for the next president to appoint a Fintech advisor. The polling stations for the upcoming U.S. elections are now weeks away from opening to appoint the next U.S. president. Until now, there has been little or no talk of Fintech innovation as policy talk and that isn’t likely to change in the coming weeks. With this in mind, Ripple executive Chris Larsen, the CEO of a startup that is arguably among the most prominent and certainly well-funded Fintech....
With less than a month to go before the US election, one distributed ledger startup's chief executive is making the pitch for a national 'FinTech advisor'. Chris Larsen, CEO of Ripple, is calling for the next US president to appoint an advisor to help navigate the rapidly changing financial technology sector. In a new blog post, released today, Larsen argues that technology is redrawing the boundaries of finance – and that the US government needs to take action to keep American companies competitive. His words of caution come weeks before Americans head to the polls on 8th November, an....
Financial Innovation Now (FIN) has called on President-elect Donald Trump to embrace FinTech to improve financial services for consumers and small businesses. Notably FIN, a tech coalition that includes Apple, Google, PayPal, Intuit, and Amazon, is urging Trump to appoint a Treasury Undersecretary who will be responsible for developing a national vision and coordinated strategy to ensure America wins the FinTech race. In its letter [PDF] to Trump, FIN states that the appointment of a Treasury Undersecretary would ‘work across all federal financial regulators to foster competition and....
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