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John has been in communications since graduating from Creative Communications at Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg in 1992. He launched one of Canada's first digital-only local news sites called Winnipeg First in 2007, which led to digital editor postings with the Winnipeg Free Press and Edmonton Journal. In 2012 he joined Bankless Times as managing editor, later becoming president and CEO. He and the Bankless Media co-founders completed a sale and exit in August 2021.
With a market of specialized fintech offerings and a customer base hungry for streamlined solutions, there's a race to become the provider of all services. The burden lies on the platform provider to deliver an exceptional experience.
"I think we have to really think long and hard before we put some onerous regulatory regime on a new technology," the Republican senator from Pennsylvania said.
Building on my recent thoughts, I cannot for the life of me understand how a bank can spend so much on technology and yet be so inefficient. By way of example, let’s take a bank cost-income ratio. That’s the measure of how much a bank spends to operate, and the …
JUMO, a South Africa- and London-based company that offers financial services to entrepreneurs and businesses in emerging markets, has raised $120 million in a new round of funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company. The company is now valued at $400 million, according to The Times. The round, which marks Fidelity’s first investment in...
Increasingly consumers want solutions to their money challenges and they don't care if it comes from a bank, a fintech or some combination.
Shoppers are all set to head back to physical stores this holiday season. Klarna’s 2021 Holidays Unwrapped report finds that 30% of consumers plan to shop primarily in-store, while 27% want to do a mix of online and in-store shopping.
The partnership and shareholding marks the first of its kind between a YouTuber and a UK fintech.
SEMA — which stands for Sports, Entertainment, Music and Arts — offers those in the sports and entertainment industries concierge financial services.
Just two peer-to-peer lenders have been authorised to offer the recovery loan scheme (RLS). Funding Circle and Assetz Capital are the only two P2P platforms accredited to offer funding under the government-backed scheme, out of 74 approved firms. In contrast, the coronavirus business interruption scheme – which preceded the RLS – included more P2P platforms...