From Abdul Abdirahman: In our recent State of Fintech report, my colleagues and I took stock of the sector’s progress over the last decade, identifying the companies that have reached (or are about to reach) enterprise scale.
Read MoreFrom Matt Ober: If data solutions can make the firm money, save the firm money or help the firm raise money, then there is no budget.
Read MoreOnsite at Fintech Meetup, The FR met with Priya Gore, General Manager, Data & AI, US Financial Services, at Microsoft
Read MoreFR Contributor Alex Lazarow shares his takeaways from F-Prime’s 2023 Fintech Index report.
Read MoreFrom Matt Ober: If data solutions can make the firm money, save the firm money or help the firm raise money, then there is no budget.
Read MoreTo 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 MoreIt’s hard to think of dating apps as a space where finance isn’t traditionally discussed; if anything, it’s one of the most overtly wealth-driven spaces that millions of users encounter every day.
Read MoreAccording to Ravi Venkatesan, CEO of Cantaloupe, the CHEQ acquisition aligns squarely with Cantaloupe’s mission. “We want to move as much commerce as possible to self-service commerce, and we want to be the technology that powers that self-service commerce,” he said. “It's really that simple.”
Read MoreMaybe above all else, ask yourself this: If you’re not pining for a $3,499 isolationist “iPad for your face,” then why would others?
Read MoreIn a piece for The Financial Revolutionist, Fluent Ventures’s Alex Lazarow looks back at his time at Omidyar Network and sets the record straight on the effects and ethics of impact investing.
Read MoreTaking a look at publicly listed tech companies’ payments-focused strategies suggest that payments will remain a cash cow and focus of investment this year across fundraising fora—not just VCs and private markets.
Read MoreIntroverts or not, consumers continue to approach in-person commerce as a productive, social, and non-fungible practice.
Read MoreTo Dave Baxter, CEO of Solutions by Text, the expansion into embedded payments is a logical next step for SBT that ultimately benefits consumers. “Bill pay isn’t going away,” Baxter said, citing its place as 30% of consumer spend.
Read MoreIn a piece for The Financial Revolutionist, Fluent Ventures’s Alex Lazarow looks at the trends and debates shaping fintech in the coming year.
Read MoreOnsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Corinna Stukan, VP of Product at Stellar Elements.
Read MoreThe Financial Revolutionist is weekly newsletter and blog focused on the torrid pace of financial innovation. Today, thanks to the exponential rate of technological change, explosion in global trade and new regulations ushered in by the Great Financial Crisis, a new financial revolution is under way. In this battle, virtually every aspect of the greater financial services sector is subject to rigorous challenge. With the Financial Revolutionist, we are aspiring to create a boots-on-the-ground and highly opinionated assessment of important financial innovation developments in the past week.
