The Sharing Economy Comes To The Financial Services Industry: What Airbnb, Uber and oDesk can teach us about innovation

Though their outsourcing and sharing of real estate with other businesses, banks (either knowingly or unknowingly) have dabbled in the Sharing Economy. PayNearMe (where I work, for full disclosure) takes it a step further by offering billers, government agencies and online businesses the option to accept cash payments at retail locations across the U.S.