Solving for financial mindfulness
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According to Courtney Cardin, Aura’s Co-Founder, many US consumers can engage in high-awareness or high-acceptance practices, but often lack the ability to merge the two.
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Fintech News Stories
Preparing for the digital-identity revolution
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Digital-identity solutions are addressing a suite of use cases—from KYC challenges to humanitarian issues. While these solutions are still in the works, and their infrastructural shape isn’t fully certain yet, fintechs and financial institutions can already prepare operationally for their arrival.
Read MoreHow Mastercard is building a global digital-ID network
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In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Sarah Clark, Senior Vice President of Digital Identity at Mastercard, explains the end goal of Mastercard’s digital-identity project, describes the privacy and security guidelines it follows, and justifies a private actor fulfilling this function—rather than a public entity.
Read MorePitching the public on digital identity
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Digital-identity solutions are a promising countermeasure that may help mitigate fraud. But they come with their own risks that consumers have to be aware of—and potentially regulate with the help of lawmakers.
Read MoreThe case for reusable digital IDs
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According to Aidan McCarty, Unum ID’s CEO & Founder, reusable IDs help businesses experience higher throughput rates, lower fraud, and lower customer acquisition costs.
Read MoreHow early-stage players are approaching the tax space
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In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Jaimin Desai, Reconcile’s Co-Founder & CEO, shares an early-stage founder’s view on breaking into a crowded tax-solution market, describes Reconcile’s operational strategy for growth, and outlines the upcoming year for his startup.
Read MoreWhat a public tax solution could mean to private competitors
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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 MoreMarketing cutting-edge tax solutions
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For 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 MoreThe products defining Tax Day
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Barring 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 MoreHow the meme stock craze changed trading-platform operations
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While 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 MoreThree takeaways from the House Financial Committee report on meme stocks
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In 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 MoreHow trading platforms have grown since the meme stock craze
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While the ultimate victims were retail traders who saw their savings wiped out, trading platforms also suffered major damage—both financial and reputational.
Read MoreHow trading platforms are maturing along with their investors
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According to Sam Nofzinger, Public’s GM of Brokerage + Crypto, how user demographics change—and the extent to which these users mature—have hinged upon the kinds of trading platforms available to them.
Read MoreWhat BaaS and embedded banking mean for an incumbent bank
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In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Jon Briggs, KeyBank’s Head of Commercial Product, describes the evolution of BaaS and embedded banking from an incumbent’s perspective.
Read MoreBaaS operations under one roof
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Gary Singh, Zeta’s President, said that banks have been slow to move toward modern banking solutions or providing BaaS to their clients because of siloed and outdated tech stacks that are expensive to move away from.
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