This Week in Fintech

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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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