Oct 17, 2014
Background
• R&D Engineer @ Synopsys
• Founding Engineer @ Mint.com
• Founder & CEO @ BizeeBee
• Founder of Femgineer.com
• Instructor @ Duke University
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Rich history.
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Financial Tech.
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What is financial tech?
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Payments
Investments
Reporting
Funding
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Agenda
• Online
• Devices
• Financial Reporting
• Future of Financial Tech
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Life used to be pretty simple...
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Life used to be pretty simple...
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Little more sophisticated.
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Commerce
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Fancy Financiers
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Simple storage.
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Boring.
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People started moving around...
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and money came along!
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Money evolved.
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Meanwhile markets started to feel a crunch.
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Housing crunch.
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Banking crunch.
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Widespread!
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But let’s get this clear...
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All of this....
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Did not lead to this!
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Financial tech frees people.
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Collect(Selling
goods and services.)
Track(Flow of funds.)
Financial Technology
e-commerce & devices online banking
Finance(Borrowing
and lending.)
micro-lending & crowd funding
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Goal of technology is to make life easier.
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Contributed to growth globally.
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Online and in emerging markets.
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By democratizing access to capital.
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Cheaper to start a business.
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But it is still up to the owner to become profitable!
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Depends on product.
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Speeding up the movement of funds.
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Depends on amount of money and where it’s going.
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Adding transparency to the system.
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Other Financial Tech Use Cases
• Trading platforms
• Forecasting
• Risk Assessment
• Reporting
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Commerce
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Very limiting in terms of geography.
Seller
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Very limiting in terms of available goods and services.
Buyer
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But now we have e-commerce!
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Opened Up More Markets
• Peer-to-Peer
• Larger inventory
• Access across geographies
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Made it easier to sell!
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Simple Setup
• Sign up for an Account: 15 minutes.
• Bank makes deposits to check ownership: 1-2 business days.
• Post goods and services: 15 minutes.
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What’s the future of e-commerce?
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US Retail e-commerce Sales
2013: $259B 2012: $225.5B
14.8% Increase
e-Marketer: Retail Ecommerce Set to Keep a Strong Pace through 2017
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?vs
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In the US in 2012
Online fraud cost e-retailers $3.5B in 2012
0.9% of Online Revenue
Higher incidents internationally but order rejection higher.
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Online Reputation
• Fraud scoring model
• Web site behavior
• Order history
• Order velocity monitoring
• Identity trail - Good citizen vs. Bad citizen
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More Sophisticated Methods
• Card verification - doesn’t work if card is stolen
• Two-factor authentication
• Address verification services
• Contact card issuer
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Balancing Competing Interests
ScalabilityHandle large sets of
transactions.
SpeedProvide liquidity faster.
Get goods faster.
SecurityVerify identity with more sophisticated
algorithms.
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Benefits of Devices
• Easier to get approved
• Easier to transact
• Lower transaction fees
• Offer quicker funds transfer
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Device Market Limitations
• Commoditized
• Fragmentation
• Maybe suffer the same fate as credit cards - unless there is an aggregator!
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Device Agnostic
• Invoicing
• Billing
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What about for the consumer?
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Peer-to-Peer exchange gotten easier.
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Financial Planning
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Financial Planning
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Unsolved Problems
• Access to capital for the unbanked
• Identity theft
• Payday loans
• International banking
• International employment & taxation
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Future of Financial Tech
• Improving the experience of financial transactions for businesses and consumer.
• Financing
• Digital currency
• Devices
• Identity management
• Reporting and Forecasting services
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It’s not just about making $ it’s about securing it.
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Review
• Online
• Devices
• Financial Reporting
• Future of Financial Tech
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Additional Resources
• Office Hours
• Online Mentoring
• Courses
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Q&A
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