In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Ben Borodach, April’s Co-Founder & CEO, describes the platform’s new e-filing solution, discusses the implications of a government-built filing product, and outlines regulatory changes that can improve the US taxpaying experience.
Read MoreFor accountants, Tax Day is an ongoing operational and marketing process—both satisfying clients in time for the April deadline, while also growing customer bases and revenues.
Read MoreBarring unprecedented emergencies like the Covid-19 pandemic, Tax Day has fallen reliably on or around April 15th since 1955. It can feel like the tax-paying process has remained the same since that year, too.
Read MoreWhile regulations have been slow to react to the meme stock craze, some key components to trading-platform ops have fundamentally changed over the past two years.
Read MoreIn the wake of the r/wallstreetbets fiasco, lawmakers rallied to make sense of the technology—as well as the laws—that made such volatile market behavior possible.
Read MoreCompliance teams at startups have to deal with an expansive confluence of variables—KYC, passports, AML, travel restrictions—wherever these two industries meet.
Read MoreIn an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Gilgamesh Founding Partners Miguel Armaza and Andrew Endicott describe the reaction of startups abroad to SVB’s crisis, predict the future of fintech banking, and push back at the idea that VCs catalyzed the bank run.
Read MoreJonathan Chen, Nitra’s Founder and CEO, said his startup was not immediately affected by SVB’s woes, but friends’ startups were.
Read MoreRouter Protocol CEO and Co-Founder Ramani Ramachandran expects current banking woes to catalyze another wave of crypto-based innovation, particularly around crypto-backed stablecoins.
Read MoreIn a conversation with The Financial Revolutionist, Social Leverage General Partner Matt Ober shares his perspective on SVB and Signature Bank’s recent collapse, describes the implications of this crisis for startup banking, and offers ideas for how to move forward.
Read MoreA confluence of regulatory variables affect the quality and quantity of capital available for fintechs in 2023.
Read MoreWhen money and medicine intertwine, compliance becomes notably complicated and demanding. But there are opportunities for fintechs where these regulatory obligations meet.
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 MoreFrom data-structuring requirements to cybersecurity imperatives, product and ops teams have to solve for a range of priorities across the development and implementation stages.
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