The service from Whitepages Pro can add another layer to identity verification for online lenders; it provides lenders with analysis of a potential borrower's associated phone number, email, mailing address and business name; Whitepages CEO Rob Eleveld says the service gives lenders a broad profile of the borrower which in most cases is difficult to fraudulently create; it can also be accessed through APIs which makes connecting to the service easy for lenders. Source
There is a brewing war in the p2p payments space with Venmo and Zelle battling over who is the leader;...
Ron Shevlin takes a deep dive into the new small business lending partnership announced last week between Amazon and Goldman...
Google announced a new group of bank partners for their checking account, expanding on the initial announcement last year with...
LendIt Co-Founder and current CCO of Centrifuge, Jason Jones, wrote a guest post on Lend Academy comparing decentralized lending to...
Back in 2009 Intuit bought Mint, the popular personal finance aggregation tool for $170 million; since then, the service hasn’t...
Square's CEO, Jack Dorsey, explained on this week's earnings call why he puts its subsidiary, Caviar, on a silver platter; Square's payment-handling service is used by many restaurants, while Caviar's food delivery-enabling platform allows those restaurants to reach a customer base eating at home; the key for Dorsey is cross-selling services that grow their customers' businesses, even if the synergies aren't apparent at first bite; on CNBC's Squawk Box the day after the earnings call, CTO Sarah Friar said that Square has been "executing on all cylinders." Source
In this Forbes op-ed Ron Shelvin shares his thoughts on how the Robinhood checking account was doomed to fail; besides...
In a Forbes column, the CEO and Co-Founder of Finix, talks about the need for regulators to create new rules...
In his weekly Forbes column Ron Shevlin takes on the issue of the digital transformation of banking; while there has...