Disintermediation occurs whenever a step in the supply chain is eliminated. A consumer calls a hotel directly to make a reservation rather than booking through a website or a travel agent.

Disintermediation is often accomplished by changing the perception of delivery. Inversely, intermediation injects a middleman between distribution channels e.g. a customer and businesses that ...

Disintermediation is ubiquitous in many industries now — from banking to travel, home improvement, interior design and even the music industry.

“Disintermediation” is often heralded as the defining feature of the digital age. Thanks to innovative new technologies, middlemen of all stripes are believed to go the way of the dodo.

Fortunately for Adobe, disintermediation, a dubious claim in the U.S., gets play in Europe, where courts have been more willing to protect companies–and existing revenue streams–against legitimate ...

Disintermediation, to its devotees, is the role the internet was born to play. And with every successful startup platform turned "unicorn" (Silicon Valley speak for a company valued at $1bn+) ...

Indirect disintermediation appears to be the larger risk, where banks get disintermediated (by bigtech and fintech) and as a result Visa due to the heavy reliance on bank partnerships.

In the realm of alternative assets, private debt has emerged as shining star, experiencing a rapid evolution and now basking in what many are calling a golden moment. Amid rising interest rates, ...

Dis-inter-media-what? The buzzword coming out of the Milken Global Conference this year is "disintermediation," meaning that there is little need for a middle man anymore in an age when investors ...

"Some of us that oppose a U.S. [central bank digital currency] warn, for example, that an unchecked government could monitor your purchases at the gun store, flag you as a threat, cut off your access ...