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Traditional banking has an advantage over Fintech because they make all their profits through lending. (Processing transactions in current accounts is just a side-benefit they use to lure people into getting salaries paid into their bank).
Even payment processors like Visa make most of their money lending on credit cards.
It's not clear how Stripe thought they could make huge profits just from fees from processing transactions, with no lending.
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