Advances in embedded lending provide better options for consumers and higher sales with more certainty for merchants. It's a win-win.
Pinwheel’s partnership with payroll provider Workday company One Source Virtual (OSV) ushers payroll into the same convenience levels as other areas of finance. It will also help banks achieve primacy with their customers.
Jifiti is quietly shaping the future of embedded finance by working strategically with banks to deliver personalized solutions.
This week, we consider the impact of financial infrastructure collapse and who really gets hurt through the lens of Wirecard, Enron, and Lehman Brothers. Yes, there are investors in the entity that will lose value. But there are also clients and counterparties of Wirecard, like Curve, Revolut, and Crypto.com. In the case of Lehman, there was a $40 trillion derivatives notional amount that took twenty years to wind down. We also consider the most recent $500,000 hacking in DeFi of an automated market maker to see if there are common threads to be drawn between the two worlds.
Embedded lending technology now allows any brand to offer high margin lending products quickly and easily.
I look at two mental models explaining why and how financial APIs have led to the creation of billions in enterprise value. The driving news is that Square Cash is competing with Robinhood in free trading, powered by trading API company DriveWealth. Last week, we saw that Chime, Robinhood, and Monzo were powered by payments API company Galileo. Should these enablers be worth the billion-dollar valuations of their clients? Are APIs inevitable technology progress? Or are we just seeing venture financing spilling desperately into a rebundling play to find profitability?
Embedded finance can help small businesses manage their money end-to-end, but not all companies are equipped to offer it properly.
Findings from AI-powered tax-filing product april’s 2023 customer impact study suggest customers are receptive to a self-guided, mobile-first process.
When an emergency expense happens for a homeowner advances in embedded finance makes it easier for both the contractor and the homeowner
In this video conversation we feature a roundtable by The Defiant exploring how and if the gap between Fintech and DeFi will be bridged.
DeFi Panelists
Lex Sokolin, head economist at ConsenSys
Santiago Roel Santos, angel investor
Spencer Noon, Investor at Variant
Vance Spencer, co founder at Framework Ventures
Fintech Panelists
Keith Grose, head of Plaid international
Nik Milanovi?, founder of This Week in Fintech
Simon Taylor, co-founder of 11:FS
Bruno Werneck, Business & Corporate Development at Plaid
Moderator
Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant