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Our Favorite Fintech Resources

Books

• A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class (h/t Jon Coffey)
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (h/t Jonah Crane)
• Credit Where It's Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship (h/t Nina Mohanty)
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years
• Fintech: The New DNA of Financial Services (h/t Alexey Likuev)
• Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World (h/t Patrick McKenzie)
• Payment Systems in the US (h/t Saira Rahman)
• The Anatomy of the Swipe: Making Money Move
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
• The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
• The Field Guide to Global Payments
• The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
• The Most Fun I Never Want To Have Again: A Mid-Life Crisis in Community Banking (h/t Alexey Likuev)
• The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives (h/t Ohad Samet)
• This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
• U.S. Fintech & Payments Crash Course

Articles

• Aaron Frank’s Not A Fintech Company
• Fintech Infrastructure 101 - Overview & Market Landscape
• When Bitcoin Grows Up
• Vertical Neobanks
• What Will Bitcoin Look Like in Twenty Years?
• Developing a global financial architecture
• Understanding the Payments Layer Cake
• Fintech’s next decade will look radically different
• Modern Treasury’s ‘Intro to Payments’ Reading List
• Fintech Resources List (by Bruno Werneck)

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