Your Daily FinTech Podcast - May 2nd, 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. This podcast episode is sponsored by Sokin. Sokin is the trusted global FX payment provider for some of the world’s leading brands. With Sokin Premium you can send and receive unlimited international payments for one fixed monthly fee. Market beating rates, no commission, hassle-free. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Block Inc., the digital-payments firm run by Jack Dorsey, is expanding its small-business loan service to Canada, bringing it into more direct competition with the country’s big banks. The move sets up Block’s Square as a competitor to Canada’s major banks by moving it further beyond payments technology and into the business of providing capital. JUST IN: After a month of delay, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) finally announced the list of successful applicants. The framework which was first issued on 30th December 2020, was hotly contested and attracted 29 parties to bid for the licenses. ALSO: MyBank, a leading online private commercial bank and an associate of Ant Group, reported that it served over 45 million small-and-micro enterprise (SME) clients at the end of 2021, representing a nearly 30 percent increase year-on-year, according to its 2021 annual report. WHAT ABOUT CRYPTO? Tribal Credit’s Chief Product officer Arvind Nimbalker said the firm is enjoying a lot of demand from firms worldwide for crypto tech and aims to build more crypto native partnerships. Digital banking startup Cogni is joining the ranks of companies hopping on the crypto bandwagon.