Your Daily FinTech Podcast - May 15th, 2022

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here. Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS The CEO and co-founder of the neobank HMBradley, is looking for someone to retroactively name the company after, and he wants to give away $25,000 while doing it. JUST IN: ComplyAdvantage has launched a live sanctions tracker, an interactive dashboard displaying the latest sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. ALSO: Grupo Financiero Banorte has joined a United Nations' program to offer digital bank accounts to refugees in Mexico. FURTHERMORE, When viewing hypergrowth startups as universities and founders as professors, Rappi has already "graduated" more than 100 founders that have created >14k jobs and raised over $2b in VC funding. WHAT ABOUT DIGITAL CURRENCIES? The Banco Central de Chile has delayed its plans for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) saying the issuance of a digital Chilean peso requires a deeper analysis of the benefits and risks, promising a new report toward the end of the year. WHAT ARE THE LATEST INSIGHTS? The fintech landscape in Vietnam is now experiencing the second-fastest growth in the region, after Singapore. According to analysts from Robocash Group, the fintech market in Vietnam is expected to grow to US$ 18 billion by 2024, despite the high competitiveness and a high entry bar.