The Finance Innovation Lab and Toynbee Hall will partner to create a fintech incubator; the incubator will focus on companies in financial health; the Financial Health Fellowship will be a six month endeavor helping companies to scale their businesses; more details about the program can be found here and the program is accepting applications through April 10. Source
Lend Academy explores how biometrics technology is going to change the finance world, cutting down on cyber-hacks and data breaches; discusses thumb prints, voice interaction/ authentication, iris scanning and now face recognition with the new iPhone X; one technology with a lot of potential is behavioral biometrics; while we are still early there are still many interesting things happening in this space and it is an area to keep an eye on. Source