In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Navan EVP and GM Michael Sindicich describes Navan’s broadened focus on expense (not just travel), outlines the staffing decisions and strategies the company undertook during the pandemic, and explains the company’s rebranded at this stage in its journey.
Read MoreSarah Lamont is an Associate at F-Prime Capital, where she focuses on early-stage investments in fintech.
Read MoreSharon Carothers leads the SensisHealth practice after two decades of consulting and leadership positions at The Lewin Group, American Legacy Foundation (now Truth Initiative), and Booz Allen Hamilton.
Read MoreAccording to Shawn Ellis, Managing Partner at Distributed Ventures, the marriage of fintech and healthcare can fundamentally alter how the medical sector operates and how patients navigate the healthcare space.
Read MoreAccording to Jason Mountford, Trend Analyst at Q.ai, the use of artificial intelligence in the financial advisor space is “an untapped area.”
Read MoreThough financial advisors have existed in various forms over the centuries—as accountants, lawyers, bankers, and others—the financial planning field has, since its genesis, been a standardized and compliance-oriented space.
Read MoreDespite the growing popularity of robo-advisors like Wealthfront as well as the proliferation of other automated tools to manage consumers’ wealth, the financial-advisor space is poised to grow 15% by 2031—a sizeable increase for a job that already hires more than 300,000 people in the US alone.
Read MoreIn an OpEd for The Financial Revolutionist, Daniel Grunstein, Co-Founder and CEO of Crowded, an open banking solution for nonprofits, outlines the financial challenges nonprofits face, details how nonprofits contribute to the US financial landscape, and explains the personal history behind Crowded’s mission.
Read MoreTo Sanford Livingston, Nor-Cal FDC’s CEO, the organization’s work, as well as its tie-up with StandardC, helps marginalized and disadvantaged groups “meet the needs of the policy and regulations for standard banking transactions.”
Read MoreTo Milind Mehere, Yieldstreet’s Founder and CEO, the company provides access to successful investment vehicles that are typically out of reach for everyday investors.
Read MoreFew markets in the US present as promising a cash cow as retail. With an estimated value of $4.55 trillion—and growing more than 3% annually—the sector is potentially lucrative, but also volatile.
Read MoreThough it channels innovative potential—reacting quickly to, and even shaping, consumer tastes—the retail sector’s operational culture remains largely unchanged from what it was decades ago.
Read MoreEyal Moldovan, 40Seas’s CEO and Co-Founder, said that the payment terms and frameworks governing the B2B space are the same ones he saw his father navigating as a clothes importer thirty years ago.
Read MoreMajor changes over the past year have inexorably shaped the fintech landscape—but few departments have been as affected as operations teams, which have had to react to developments and refract those new realities through hiring and strategy decisions.
Read MoreAccording to Seth McGuire, Galileo’s CRO, the push into embedded finance is the result of growing digitization as well as a recognized need for more revenue streams. Perhaps counterintuitively, McGuire said, many businesses have looked to launch embedded finance platforms in the face of headwinds.
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