{"id":486,"date":"2017-01-29T20:06:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/?p=486"},"modified":"2017-01-29T20:06:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T20:06:13","slug":"the-future-of-giving-through-fintech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/2017\/01\/29\/the-future-of-giving-through-fintech\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of giving through FinTech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within recent years, FinTech has brought to the public a way to donate and fundraise for any cause, ranging\u00a0from charities\u00a0to startups. In London, five students have found a way to integrate a new system into an existing one &#8211; from integrating a &#8220;digital charity box&#8221;\u00a0called &#8220;iRoundUp&#8221; into an established online payment system &#8220;ParentPay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By giving access to the public a way to give to good causes without barriers, such as distance, it gives more incentive for the masses to be inclined to help. It also reaches a larger audience, increasing the donating potential that these charities can reach. Since it was an existing platform, the users are already familiar with the interface. By adding in a new option, it gives the users an easy and hassle free way of donating to a good cause.<\/p>\n<p>With the development of technology, this notion of online giving has been widespread across the online community. This gives a new push towards the future of money, where all transactions &#8211; from buying, selling, or donating &#8211; will be transferred online. By slowly integrating new technologies, such as &#8220;iRoundUp&#8221; to a larger platform, users can be exposed to the fast changes of technology.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/techcitynews.com\/press_release\/no-electronic-loose-change-innovative-fintech-charity-payment-scheme-launched-today-across-6000-uk-schools\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within recent years, FinTech has brought to the public a way to donate and fundraise for any cause, ranging\u00a0from charities\u00a0to startups. In London, five students have found a way to integrate a new system into an existing one &#8211; from integrating a &#8220;digital charity box&#8221;\u00a0called &#8220;iRoundUp&#8221; into an established online payment system &#8220;ParentPay.&#8221; By giving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/2017\/01\/29\/the-future-of-giving-through-fintech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The future of giving through FinTech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":2,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"mlam1","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/author\/mlam1\/"},"qubely_comment":2,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Within recent years, FinTech has brought to the public a way to donate and fundraise for any cause, ranging\u00a0from charities\u00a0to startups. In London, five students have found a way to integrate a new system into an existing one &#8211; from integrating a &#8220;digital charity box&#8221;\u00a0called &#8220;iRoundUp&#8221; into an established online payment system &#8220;ParentPay.&#8221; By giving&hellip;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}