What will BaaS look like in a year?
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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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Fintech News Stories
Who are fintech’s “walking dead”?
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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.
Read MoreIncubating community bank-fintech ecosystems
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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.”
Read MoreThe ethos and mechanics of engagement banking
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Onsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Thomas Fuss, CTO of Backbase.
Read MoreSelling digital banking to tribal nations with Totem
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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.
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.
Read MoreSolving for community-bank ops
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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.
Read MoreThe legal landscape shaping community banks
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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.
Read MoreSelling fintech to community banks
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Fintechs have the potential to, bank by bank, help modernize the commercial-banking space through more cutting-edge products and services.
Read MoreBuilding community-bank fintech solutions
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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.
Read MoreThe regulations shaping fintech for veterans
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The intricacies found within these regulations can be a major compliance concern for military- and veteran-focused fintechs—and still leave significant gaps to fill.
Read MoreRevamping credit union ops through partnerships
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According to Jason Henrichs, Alloy Labs’s Founder and CEO, while credit unions and community banks exist and serve their members well, the needs of their members are changing.
Read MoreWhy credit unions should offer cannabis banking
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According to Paul Dunford, Green Check Verified’s Co-Founder and VP of Knowledge, cannabis banking aligns with the mission of credit unions.
Read MoreSelling product ecosystems to credit unions
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Given their relatively small size and tech budgets, credit unions are a prime target for fintechs looking to overhaul financial institutions’ tech stacks and operations. But reaching and converting many of these CUs can be a challenge.
Read MoreHow credit unions can win the product game
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With the right products that speak to their strengths, credit unions can stick around—and scale significantly.
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