In this episode the CEO and Co-Founder of SigFig, Mike Sha, talks financial advice, how to scale good advice and why a new holistic approach is needed
The news was led by Goldman Sachs again this week as we learned the details of their restructuring. Mastercard is getting deeper into crypto, the CFPB is in turmoil, Voyager Digital customers may get 72% of their assets back and Chase is looking to move into small business payments.
There was a spate of negative fintech news this week. We had significant layoffs from two of the largest fintechs in the country, Stripe and Chime and Coinbase reported miserable Q3 results.
In this episode we talk with Dee Choubey, the CEO and co-founder of MoneyLion. He shares how they are rethinking customer engagement, changing the form factor of finance, navigating the bear market in fintech valuations, going all-in on NASCAR and much more.
Sam Brankman-Fried continued to dominate the news this week as Congress has asked him to testify. Walmart's One is getting into BNPL, Plaid is laying off 20% of their staff, the Coinbase CEO says revenue is down by half and Circle is no longer going public via SPAC.
Goldman Sachs leads off the news this week with some bad news and some good news. Step raised a huge debt round (eschewing equity), BNY Mellon is getting into crypto, which makes Custodia Bank very unhappy. And of course, there were plenty of crypto stories to round out the news.
To increase the engagement of the fintech's user community, the new product will expand Nubank's internal rewards program.
Leading the news this week is Sam Bankman-Fried giving a public appearance, Larry Fink like tokenization, BlockFi filed for bankruptcy and more
In this episode we talk with Eytan Bensoussan, the CEO and founder of NorthOne, where we discuss small business banking and what small business owners really want from a fintech.
The first week of the year is in the books and already there has been big news in fintech.