Financial innovations brought by technology
The things described in the article are certainly good but I don't count any of them as "innovation."- Many countries have had free banking for decades now. The USA's banks have finally decided to stop gouging their prices, but that's hardly innovation. Overdraft fees basically are just a made up problem in order to extract money from customers. European banks have had a notion of "no money, no purchase" for ages now.Ditto with fast transfers and lower remittance.---True innovation would be more control over your money. For example, you could have a bank account with $100 in it, and you allocate dollars $0-50 to be "online" money. This can mean different things, but for the sake of example let's say that means that you can go to https://bank.com/user/endisneigh and if I give you a special code that I create you can take an amount of money directly from my bank account, specified by the code. No need to use something like stripe.Another example could be the ability to automatically change where money goes depending on its source. Got a deposit via Venmo? It goes to X. From your work? Goes to Y.The future is programmable money. That's innovation IMHO.