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The Paycheck Protection Program has had its fair share of issues with government bureaucracy and favoritism by big banks to...
LendIt Fintech continues to connect the fintech community during these challenging times. In partnership with Plaid, our next webinar will...
If you are in finance and only looking at banks, you are missing out on the real change agents. Here's some cross-industry action that we will unpack this week.
Amazon selected Goldman Sachs to be the lender of choice for small business loans. TikTok maker ByteDance is working with a Singaporean business family to get a financial license. And small business bank Starling is integrating Slack, energy switching service Bionic, and health insurance provider Equipsme into their marketplace. And we might as well talk about the Plaid Exchange launch, and end on the computational economy of Ethereum.
This week, I pause to reflect on the sales of (1) AdvisorEngine to Franklin Templeton and (2) the technology of Motif Investing to Schwab. Is all enterprise wealth tech destined to be acquired by financial incumbents? Has the roboadvisor innovation vector run dry? Not at all, I think. If anything, we are just getting started. Decentralized finance innovators like Zapper, Balancer, TokenSets, and PieDAO are re-imagining what wealth management looks like on Ethereum infrastructure. Their speed of iteration and deployment is both faster and cheaper, and I am more excited for the future of digital investing than ever before.
Now more than ever it is important for fintechs to be on the top of their game when it comes...
LendIt Fintech continues to connect the fintech community during these challenging times; In partnership with Plaid, our next webinar will...
John Pitts is policy lead for Plaid and has been critical of the Paycheck Protection Program; beyond the challenges of...