The power of culture
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A cross-border VC and corporate innovator’s perspective by Tiffine Wang
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Fintech News Stories
Incubating community bank-fintech ecosystems
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To Charles Potts, EVP and Chief Innovation Officer of ICBA, the ThinkTECH accelerator program represents a “key pillar” of ICBA’s work and arose from community banks' drive to be “on par with the biggest fintechs and banks on the planet.”
Read MoreOverhauling operations for T+1
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In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Julian Trostinsky, Head of Global Support Solutions at Gresham, outlines a major compliance deadline looming for buy- and sell-side firms in North America.
Read MoreMaking sense of Capital One's Discover acquisition
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Regulators are in a double bind. The antitrust concerns are real—as is the potential for this acquisition to disrupt the Visa-Mastercard duopoly.
Read MoreWhat's next for Robinhood?
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It’s hard to tell how much Robinhood’s uptick stems from its savviness—poaching competitors’ brokerage customers through deposit matching, releasing popular product features, and more—rather than improved economic conditions.
Read MoreShould dating apps mingle with credit scores?
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It’s hard to think of dating apps as a space where finance isn’t traditionally discussed; if anything, it’s one of the most overtly wealth-driven spaces that millions of users encounter every day.
Read MoreNBFI risks and regulations
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Across the executive branch, regulators are growing more vocal in discussing the systemic risks that non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) pose. Why now?
Read MoreDoes crypto crime prevention need AI?
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In their official announcement, both CYBERA and Chainalysis framed blockchain-based crimes as a workaday form of financial fraud. That is, official statements made no differentiation between crypto-focused and non-crypto-focused crimes, folding them into a singular locus of concern.
Read MoreInside Cantaloupe’s acquisition of CHEQ
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According to Ravi Venkatesan, CEO of Cantaloupe, the CHEQ acquisition aligns squarely with Cantaloupe’s mission. “We want to move as much commerce as possible to self-service commerce, and we want to be the technology that powers that self-service commerce,” he said. “It's really that simple.”
Read MoreApple Vision Pro and the metaverse economy
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Maybe above all else, ask yourself this: If you’re not pining for a $3,499 isolationist “iPad for your face,” then why would others?
Read MoreWeb scraping and the future of AI
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From Matt Ober: With the value of data going up every day and the amount of data-hungry AI models being trained, the web scraping rules are going to come up more and more. This is the first of many lawsuits.
Read MoreThe myths of impact in investing
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In a piece for The Financial Revolutionist, Fluent Ventures’s Alex Lazarow looks back at his time at Omidyar Network and sets the record straight on the effects and ethics of impact investing.
Read MoreThe ethos and mechanics of engagement banking
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Onsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Thomas Fuss, CTO of Backbase.
Read MoreIn conversation with Marcel van Oost
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Unveiling the future of fintech through daily insights
Read MoreApple, consumer payments, and investor uncertainty in 2024
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Taking a look at publicly listed tech companies’ payments-focused strategies suggest that payments will remain a cash cow and focus of investment this year across fundraising fora—not just VCs and private markets.
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