A new fintech startup based in London wants to make buying an investment property as easy as ordering something on...
The Ant Group is slated to go public with a valuation around $200bn, which makes it the world’s highest valued...
Grayscale is suing the Securities and Exchange Commission in response to continuous rejection of the company's prospective spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund.
It walks and talks like a neobank, but its leaders say it will have a credit union-forward strategy that caters to underserved segments.
Mayor Adams said the city is leaning into blockchain and digital assets with their blockchain center in New York and blockchain week.
Data scientists have become one of the top needed professions in banking and big tech; banks are finding it harder to compete with the likes of Google, Facebook for a number of key reasons; compensation and data structures, big tech is able to pay over a million dollars a year for premier talent and data at big tech firms is not structured like banks so they are able to work more freely; Gurjeet Singh of Ayasdi says banks can make strides by creating competitions for data scientists when they leave school and investing more in all levels of the bank to cater to talent better. Source.
On episode 25 I talk with Duy Vo of Productfy. Productfy is a fast and easy developer-first platform for any company to build, test, and launch financial products.
News of CFPB Director Cordray’s departure could see regulations on payday lenders lessened; one of Director Corday’s main missions was to crack down on predatory lenders; Director Cordray plans to leave at the end of the months and no long term successor has been chosen yet. Source.
Louis Beryl was co-founder and chief executive of Earnest; he left the company this week; Navient Corp purchased Earnest back in October 2017 for $155 million; Earnest co-founder Ben Hutchinson remains at the company as chief operating officer. Source
Pix achieved the milestone of 3 billion monthly transactions in March, up from a previous record of 2.8 billion by the end of last year.