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B2B Fintech Drives Market Disruption in Mexico

Andreessen Horowitz

Regulatory changes paving the way Recognizing the potential of fintech to improve financial services and drive economic growth, the Mexican government has introduced significant regulatory changes in conjunction with the Bank of Mexico (Banxico). The most prominent of these changes was the Fintech Law of 2018.

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Spanish scale-ups club together to shift the tech policy agenda

TechCrunch

“We are convinced that the contribution of these type of companies, especially the scale-ups, is super significant to the prosperity and to the economic growth of the country. Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat. How Europe has expanded its bid to disrupt Big Tech.

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Leaked Uber Files reveal history of lawbreaking, lobbying and exploiting violence against drivers

TechCrunch

The documents, which include 83,000 emails and 1,000 other files including conversations, reveal for the first time Uber’s $90 million-a-year lobbying and public relations campaigns to gain the support of world leaders, such as French President Emmanuel Macron, in order to disrupt Europe’s taxi industry.

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Curve Ball

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Given that we are in a global conflict, the question is, if there were some major disruption in the availability of hydrocarbons that caused their global price to double or triple overnight, how would the major powers wield their weapons of monetary policy in response? That knocks out another ~15% of the EU’s imports.

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America Needs More Techno-Optimism

Andreessen Horowitz

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. I mean, so, you know, the overall answer is productivity growth in the economy, you know, is a great starting point. Economic growth is a great starting point. They generally don’t seek to disrupt, or seek to create, or seek to invent.

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