Evolution of Fintech — A timeline

Finance & technology have been intertwined ever since the start of the modern society. The earliest days of finance hundreds of years ago was in the context of keeping records for things like government finances, payment of taxes & agricultural production. The first physical financial technology developed was money in the form of coins which later transformed in to paper money. Much didn’t change till the later part of the 19th century when the seeds of the modern FinTech Era were sown. Inception The pioneering step in this regard was the laying of first trans Atlantic (under sea) telegraphic cable…...