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Fintech’s futures past

Fintech Beat, Ep. 77

After the COVID-19 pandemic upended 2020, how will fintech look in 2021?
After the COVID-19 pandemic upended 2020, how will fintech look in 2021? (Getty Images)
By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted December 22, 2020 at 4:00am

Famed venture capitalist Matt Harris joins Amias Gerety to discuss how important it is to understand fintech’s past if one wishes to invest in its future — and how another pandemic first ignited digital payments nearly two decades before COVID-19.

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