Is AI the new cloud?
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From Matt Ober: AI is feeling very similar to the cloud rush many years ago. At first, AI is a differentiator for companies, but eventually it becomes table stakes.
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Fintech News Stories
The state of alternative data in lending with Nova Credit
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The FR met with Nikki Cross, Senior Director of Data Science Solutions at Nova Credit
Read MoreThe “Give to Get” data strategy
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From Matt Ober: In the financial industry, some of the best datasets were contributory datasets and many of them started as give to get.
Read MorePredictions for Wall Street technology in 2050
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From Matt Ober: If data solutions can make the firm money, save the firm money or help the firm raise money, then there is no budget.
Read MoreShould dating apps mingle with credit scores?
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It’s hard to think of dating apps as a space where finance isn’t traditionally discussed; if anything, it’s one of the most overtly wealth-driven spaces that millions of users encounter every day.
Read MoreWeb scraping and the future of AI
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From Matt Ober: With the value of data going up every day and the amount of data-hungry AI models being trained, the web scraping rules are going to come up more and more. This is the first of many lawsuits.
Read MoreAI is about to get expensive
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From Matt Ober: The downstream cost of leveraging AI, I believe, will become more expensive or be continuously funded by VC money in the near team. We are already seeing the lawsuits pop up with the New York Times. Owners of data and content want to get paid!
Read MoreAI and a wave of efficiency
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From Matt Ober: One thing that is clear to me is that AI is going to give us all a lot more free time. We are going to get comfortable in the coming years having AI automate a lot of our repetitive tasks and we will soon have AI agents or assistants in all industries. What will we all do with all this free time?
Read MoreThe state of BNPL
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In part, products like BNPL are a mechanism for consumers to skirt around traditional barriers to overspending—flying over the headwinds, while adding fuel to tailwinds.
Read MoreFintech incubation and data access with Fintech Sandbox
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In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Kelly Fryer, Executive Director of Fintech Sandbox, dives into the incubator’s evolution and shares her thoughts on the future of fintech.
Read MoreThe index business: Can it be disrupted?
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In a piece for The Financial Revolutionist, Social Leverage’s Matt Ober asks: Will we ever see a new entrant that can disrupt the powerhouse index providers?
Read MoreCan anyone compete with S&P?
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S&P = Markit + IHS. Does someone make a move to compete? S&P is a data & information services powerhouse and has no competition.
Read MoreIs proprietary data the most valuable?
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Matt Ober, General Partner at Social Leverage, questions whether we’ll see new verticalized Twitter winners if proprietary data is the most valuable asset.
Read MorePartner-focused safety operations with Driver Technologies
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To Marcus Newbury, Co-Founder and COO of Driver Technologies, the company’s technology fills a crucial niche.
Read MoreCulturally informed product development with Nuestro Financial
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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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