Managing volatility can be a competitive advantage for CFOs
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Jeremy Almond, co-founder and CEO of Paystand, explores how visionary leaders can turn today’s economic uncertainty into an opportunity for a competitive edge.
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Fintech News Stories
Raising VC for fintechs in 2025
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VC Tiffine Wang looks at the current fundraising environment for fintechs: the bar is higher and investors are more selective.
Private investors are betting big on AI. Here’s what that means for fintechs.
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Hank Boughner, CEO of alternative investment fintech Dynamo Software, dives into the rising wave of private investor interest in AI and its impact on the fintech industry.
Read MoreA risk-based approach to adopting AI in insurance
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AI-powered recommendation engines and computer vision technologies offer real-time, precise analytics and generative AI further extends these capabilities by facilitating the creation of new content and designs with ease. But is it all just a hype? Tiffine Wang, an investment partner at MS&AD Ventures, dives into this question.
Read MoreBridging the trust gap between AI and human advice
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The chorus of financial services brands that say they’re exploring the use of generative artificial intelligence to improve customer experiences keeps growing.
Read MoreLessons in scaling a commerce and fintech platform
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In Madrid in early June, Alex Lazarow led a fireside chat at the South Summit with JC Glancy, the unicorn founder of ZenBusiness. Here are a few takeaways from their discussion on how ZenBusiness has scaled over the years.
Read MoreCan VCs and founders hustle more responsibly?
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Despite the market’s slight rebound this year, mental health and work-life balance hurdles have never been more challenging to overcome. Emmalyn Shaw, a co-founder and managing partner at Flourish Ventures, and Lisa Mikkelsen, head of global human capital at Flourish Ventures, delve into this pressing issue.
Read MoreTokenization: A tale of three cities (Part III)
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In the last part of The FR’s series on tokenization, we’ll explore the use cases that may drive growing adoption of tokens to digitize a range of assets on the blockchain. We’ll also consider the regulatory roadblocks preventing tokenization’s proliferation at this current juncture.
Read MoreTokenization: A tale of three cities (Part II)
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In this next part of the series, we’ll dive into what this means for fintech and financial institutions. If digital assets are treated as assets, period, how does this shape the financial landscape? And why would these parties buy into such a nascent technology?
Read MoreTokenization: A tale of three cities (Part I)
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If I had started writing this article three years ago, I’d be reporting on the buying frenzy surrounding non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain-based proofs authenticating the uniqueness of digital objects, namely artwork. But now it’s 2024.
Read MoreMaking sense of bitcoin ETF outflows
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Do these ETFs, like the cryptocurrencies undergirding them, require more investors to buy into their vision in order to become successful and profitable?
Read MoreWould I work for this founder?
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FR Contributor Alex Lazarow offers a different lens on startup investing
Read MoreFintech is operating at scale, with huge growth potential
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From Abdul Abdirahman: In our recent State of Fintech report, my colleagues and I took stock of the sector’s progress over the last decade, identifying the companies that have reached (or are about to reach) enterprise scale.
Read MoreThe future of SXSW Pitch
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According to Chris Valentine, who produces SXSW Pitch, the event offers a crucial niche within the larger SXSW ecosystem.
Read MoreInsights from the 2023 Fintech Index
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FR Contributor Alex Lazarow shares his takeaways from F-Prime’s 2023 Fintech Index report.
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