Making news this week was Stripe launching a new product to compete with Plaid, changes to the CRA have finally been proposed, Yuga Labs almost crashed Ethereum, Robinhood starts a stock lending program, Affirm teams up with Fiserv and more.
Last year SoftBank agreed to make a €900mn investment into Wirecard; as part of the deal they were going to...
Stripe has garnered the top spot on CNBC’s 2020 Disruptor 50 list as the fintech has seen big success through...
There was big fintech news this week from Stripe, Zelle, CSilvergate Bank, Farmington State Bank, Amazon, Foro, Ron Shevlin, French Hill, Gemini, Bolt and more.
In this conversation, we delve deep into next generation finance and banking with CJ MacDonald, the Founder and CEO of Step – an incredibly successful neobank on a mission to improve the financial future of the next generation.
More specifically, we discuss traditional vs. digital banking, how personal experiences influence entrepreneurial the spirit, immersive market research, banking-as-a-service, the importance of financial literacy amongst Millenials and Gen-Z, the power of influencers who actually believe in a brand, aspirational brands vs. plastic Wells Fargo stage coaches, and lastly the proliferation of crypto in the minds of the next generation.
According to analysis by S&P U.S. fintech funding is on pace to beat last year’s performance, even with the pandemic...
We had big fintech news this week from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Stripe, LendingClub, Silvergate Bank and more.
Cross River Bank is one of the most forward thinking banks in the US. This is due to early embrace...
Making news this week was Stripe, American Express, the CFPB, SoFi, Celsius and more
This week, we look at Betterment launching a bank account and payments feature. They are not the first, but they could be the best! Still, it feels like the world has moved on. Barriers to entry around digital finance have collapsed, and shifted industry goal posts. Hundreds of companies are integrating API-based solutions that connect to banking and investment entities. Amazon, Google, and Apple are there already. And let's not forget the incredible pressure from the COVID recession: 20MM+ unemployed, $100 billion decrease in global remittances, 1 in 8 banks being unprofitable. Is it time for incremental improvement, or a sea change?