In the age of open banking, personal information is now being shared across many different institutions; the company powering this...
Rachel Schneider discusses a new way of thinking about the financial lives of Americans; suggests that many of the models are out of date; Schneider worked with a research project called US Financial Diaries which worked with 235 families to learn about every dollar that they spent, borrowed, saved, earned, and more; through the research they understood these families on a much deeper level to understand the 'why' behind financial decisions; Schneider shares many interesting data points including income and spending spikes in the lives of Americans; highlights the opportunities for fintech companies in the US. Source
It took three years for Marcus to bring a mobile app to market which many would agree is a long...
Michael Lewis is a well known author, writing The Big Short, Moneyball and Liars Poker; Lewis is a great storyteller...
The issue of privacy remains fundamental in CBDC design. The AEI published a vision for a financial system with the coin as its cornerstone.
In our latest guest post Jorrit van Rijswijk of Dynamic Credit digs into all of the European SME support programs...
Ethereum prediction market firm Gnosis has completed an initial coin offering with the firm's creators owning 95% or approximately $280 million and investors buying 5% of the project's tokens for a total of $12 million; skeptics say the high market cap for the project is an example of recent irrationality in token sales; however, as more initial coin offerings are successful, investors appear to be growing more comfortable with the investments. Source
An SEC Committee Wants to Make it Easier to Qualify as an Accredited Investor, Will the Commission Listen?.| Crowdfund Insider: Global Fintech News,...
Inter-bank payments platform Swift says it is a step closer to adopting blockchain; a project that could potentially move member bank accounts to the blockchain and provide for real time reconciliation is now ready for its next phase; the project is focused on dormant funds held in various currencies supporting transactions. Source
PeerStreet is one of the leaders in the real estate crowdfunding space in the US; they announced in March that...