Goldman Sachs's floundering consumer ambitions

Goldman Sachs's floundering consumer ambitions

For fintechs: What does it mean if a behemoth like Goldman Sachs can’t handle consumer-focused banking and wealth management services simultaneously?

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One year since SVB's crisis

One year since SVB's crisis

From Alex Lazarow: I can’t believe it’s been a year since the SVB collapse and the banking crisis. What has changed? What have we learned?

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A look into the FIS Fintech Accelerator Program

A look into the FIS Fintech Accelerator Program

Onsite at Fintech Meetup, The FR met with Tatyana Kratunova, Head of the FIS Fintech Accelerator Program.

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What will BaaS look like in a year?

What will BaaS look like in a year?

Onsite at Fintech Meetup, The FR met with Michele Alt, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Klaros Group, and a former regulator at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

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Who are fintech’s “walking dead”?

Who are fintech’s “walking dead”?

Carey Ransom, Managing Director of BankTech Ventures and a contributor to The FR, describes the phenomenon of “walking dead” fintech companies who face a fintech venture bubble overhang, outlines the future of AI hype, and encourages conferencegoers to say what they really mean. 

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Incubating community bank-fintech ecosystems

Incubating community bank-fintech ecosystems

To Charles Potts, EVP and Chief Innovation Officer of ICBA, the ThinkTECH accelerator program represents a “key pillar” of ICBA’s work and arose from community banks' drive to be “on par with the biggest fintechs and banks on the planet.”

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The ethos and mechanics of engagement banking

The ethos and mechanics of engagement banking

Onsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Thomas Fuss, CTO of Backbase.

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Selling digital banking to tribal nations with Totem

Selling digital banking to tribal nations with Totem

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Amber Buker, Founder & CEO of Totem, outlines Totem’s founding story, describes the neobank’s partnership efforts with tribal nations, and differentiates its operations and sales from those of banking giants.

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Culturally informed product development with Nuestro Financial

Culturally informed product development with Nuestro Financial

According to Diego Eguiarte, Founder and CEO of Nuestro Financial, serving Latino communities entails far more than operating bilingual support services.

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Solving for community-bank ops

Solving for community-bank ops

With their sights set on regaining market share—and with banking operations under increasing scrutiny from regulators after bank failures in 2023—community banks are bound to undertake major operational overhauls in the coming years.

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The legal landscape shaping community banks

The legal landscape shaping community banks

Community banks beat larger counterparts in terms of their number and geographic span, but they lack the upper hand when it comes to compliance and the overhead that comes with it.

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Selling fintech to community banks

Selling fintech to community banks

Fintechs have the potential to, bank by bank, help modernize the commercial-banking space through more cutting-edge products and services.

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Building community-bank fintech solutions

Building community-bank fintech solutions

Community banks, like credit unions, can often struggle to keep up with larger players, which, with bigger budgets, have built out in-house tech overhauls that give them an even greater edge.

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