Fintech incubation and data access with Fintech Sandbox

Fintech incubation and data access with Fintech Sandbox

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.

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The index business: Can it be disrupted?

The index business: Can it be disrupted?

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?

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Can anyone compete with S&P?

Can anyone compete with S&P?

S&P = Markit + IHS. Does someone make a move to compete? S&P is a data & information services powerhouse and has no competition.

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Is proprietary data the most valuable?

Is proprietary data the most valuable?

Matt Ober, General Partner at Social Leverage, questions whether we’ll see new verticalized Twitter winners if proprietary data is the most valuable asset.

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Partner-focused safety operations with Driver Technologies

Partner-focused safety operations with Driver Technologies

To Marcus Newbury, Co-Founder and COO of Driver Technologies, the company’s technology fills a crucial niche.

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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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The inputs for fintech-focused AI

The inputs for fintech-focused AI

According to Naveen Agnihotri, Cumberland Labs’s CEO and Co-Founder, both the blockchain and AI have the potential to fundamentally alter fintechs’ operations.

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Local community banks and credit unions are key to overcoming debt

Local community banks and credit unions are key to overcoming debt

In an OpEd, Gabe Kajicek, CEO of Kasasa, argues that local banks offer personal touches that can set clients onto healthier financial journeys and help address debt-related issues.

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Changing debt's calculus with Uplinq

Changing debt's calculus with Uplinq

To Patrick Reily, Co-Founder of Uplinq, underwriting models are an underlying and solvable factor behind the catch-22 of lending. With more holistic, dynamic, and contextual models, lenders can offer capital to more applicants while appreciating their real (i.e. for the large part reduced) risk of default, helping lenders extend loans to more people at fairer prices.

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Three ways the new AI Bill of Rights can affect fintech HR and ops teams

Three ways the new AI Bill of Rights can affect fintech HR and ops teams

On Tuesday, the Biden Administration published a blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. If this AI Bill of Rights takes hold and shapes the US regulatory landscape in its image, then human resources and operations teams—notably in fintech—should prepare for a new suite of hiring needs.

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Growth through alt data and compliance with Cowbell

Growth through alt data and compliance with Cowbell

In a conversation with The Financial Revolutionist, Cowbell Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Jones describes Cowbell’s bread and butter, compares their regulatory obligations to those of B2C insurtechs, and considers the future of insurance and security.

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Turning alternative data into trust with Credit Karma

Turning alternative data into trust with Credit Karma

In a conversation with The Financial Revolutionist, Credit Karma’s GM of Insurance, Rory Joyce, explains Credit Karma’s vision for insurance, outlines its marketing and sales strategies, and considers the difference between cross-selling and comprehensive coverage.

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Lessons on alternative data and lending with Conductiv

Lessons on alternative data and lending with Conductiv

In a conversation with The Financial Revolutionist, Conductiv CEO Gopal Swamy, along with Zach Lambert, Head of Product, outlines what Conductiv does, and how the team went about building their product.

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Building a financial ecosystem for SMBs with ForwardAI

Building a financial ecosystem for SMBs with ForwardAI

In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Co-Founder and CEO of ForwardAI Nick Chandi outlines the market need ForwardAI addresses, describes the competitive dynamic between accounting platforms and banks, and envisions the future of SMB financial advisory services.

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Remaking Samsung Pay

Remaking Samsung Pay

Samsung announced that it’s merging its Pay and Pass apps into Samsung Wallet, a single, integrated platform for financial products, official documents, home and car keys, and more. Users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US are the first to have access to the updated service.

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