In fintech today there is one company powering payments behind the scenes that few people had heard of until this...
SoFi has become the latest fintech to apply for a full national bank charter. They filed a de novo bank...
There is a growing group of fintechs who have designed their products specifically for Gen Z, who are defined as...
CEO Brad Paterson Of Fintech Upstart Splitit On The Future Of E-commerce, Payments, Fintech, And BNPL (By Now, Pay Later)...
This week, we look at:
The financial model behind Monzo, and comparisons to Revolut and Starling
How the Eastern super apps inspired the marketplace model, and why that success is hard for neobanks to replicate
Paths from losing $100 million per year to break-even and enabling digital assets and other financial products
Facebook Financial forming to take over payments and commerce
In episode 254 of the Lend Academy Podcast Peter talks with Clay Wilkes, the CEO and Founder of Galileo Financial...
Leading fintech platform, SoFi, has applied for a national bank charter with the OCC; unlike back in 2017 when they...
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·Mike Cagney is the Co-Founder and CEO of Figure, a full stack financial services blockchain company with consumer offerings in market or on the way in lending, banking and more. In late-2019, Figure raised $103 million at a $1.2 billion valuation and continues to grow.
Prior to starting Figure, Mike co-founded and ran SoFi, one of the most successful consumer fintech companies ever.
In this conversation, we discuss Figure’s routes to asset origination and capital markets disruption, Figure’s previously unannounced consumer banking and payments offering, lessons learned building and scaling multiple billion dollar companies and more.
The fintech world is not taking the summer off. New developments are coming fast and furious, from fundraisings to product launches to government intervention.
Banking for brands startup Bond raised $32 million to capitalize on the exploding trend of B2B2C banking.
Samsung Money launched, leveraging SoFi’s infrastructure. As SoFi again seeks a national banking charter, they could become the de facto leader in this space.
Kabbage and Intuit launched small business bank accounts as extensions of their already deep relationships with SMBs.
And WhatsApp is trialing all sorts of financial services in India just as Chinese fintech super apps are being banned from the country.
Last Sunday night the world saw SoFi Stadium in all its glory for the first time. Well, that’s not exactly...