16 January 2020

Daily Tearsheet: Google launches digital wallet, and Daffy repackages the donor-advised fund

Green Finance Briefing: Sustainability is now a top 5 corporate priority

• Board members and investors are demanding greater accountability around sustainability, and CEOs are feeling pressured to start employing sustainable strategies.
• The past year has seen a dramatic increase in interest in environment-related issues – it is now the third-most important external factor that executives are taking into account.

A “plug adapter” for donations: Daffy repackages the donor-advised fund

• Daffy is a fintech that wants to make donor-advised funds accessible to everyone.
• The emergence of the app could be another example of how the industry is repackaging its services.

Google launches digital wallet: 5 questions with Payments GM Arnold Goldberg

• Google launched its digital wallet and virtual cards at its latest I/O developer conference, marking its first move in the payments space since the Plex project was scraped late last year.
• Tearsheet spoke with Google's head of payments, Arnold Goldberg, about what this means for the Big Tech's journey in financial services.

Daily Tearsheet: Dogecoin and the future of Musk’s Twitter, NovoPayment’s experience targeting LatAm payments

• Musk has been a proponent of DOGE -- will Twitter move more aggressively into crypto and payments?
• Also, getting into LatAm payments 15 years ago was a really good idea.