Axios

This was a big week for financiers looking to make enormous profits from the empire-building ambitions of businesses with dubious business models.

An ideal payment mechanism should do 2 things: It should take place in real time, and it should clear at par.

That's how cash works. If you give me $50 in cash, then I immediately become $50 richer, and you immediately become $50 poorer.

Online platforms built for the living increasingly have to confront what to do when one of their users dies, leaving an account behind.

Details: Each major platform is different, but all have procedures in place should a user die.