Envestnet|Yodlee is a data aggregator which has been working with Abe AI for nearly two years; Abe AI will leverage...
BlockFi offers loans to those who own cryptocurrencies; the company is currently in a beta launch and is lending in 35 states; ConsenSys Ventures, Kenetic Capital, PJC, SoFi, Purple Arch Ventures and Lumenary participated in the round. Source
Over the last year, banks and venture capitalists have poured tens of millions of dollars into technology to fight financial...
Denise Thomas was named one of the tech industry's top female founders in 2016 by TechCrunch; Denise Thomas and Stephen Pelletier formed ApplePie Capital in 2013 after previously working together at online investment platform OffRoad Capital; Denise Thomas is currently the CEO of ApplePie Capital which specializes in providing online loans to franchise businesses. Source
Shuttle Holdings is preparing to launch a beta custody solution for digital assets built on IBM’s private cloud and encryption technologies;...
Digital banking is having its moment and the bank branch should be quite worried; branch traffic is down 30 percent...
Investing startup M1 Finance decided in December that charging 25 to 40 basis points was not working, so it decided to allow users to use their platform for free; since shifting to the free model the company has seen more than $1mn a day come onto the platform; rival robo advisors like Betterment and Wealthfront think the move is an act of desperation, though both companies offer or have offered some version free services; CEO of M1 Brian Barnes tells Business Insider, “M1 is very limiting from a trading perspective but it is a phenomenal tool for building a portfolio for the investments you want." Source.
James Garvey is the CEO and Co-Founder of Self Lender, a company taking a unique approach to help consumers build...
More than 40 North American state and provincial regulators have revealed they are working in a coordinated crackdown on fraudulent...
AlphaFlow is an investment platform for real estate that allows investors to easily build a diversified portfolio; Sturm shares what platforms they are working with, their due diligence process, the types of loans they invest in, how they’re planning to work with offline hard money lenders and more. Source