From an internal competition for innovative solutions to being a founding member of MassChallenge Fintech, Citizens Bank is looking to embrace change. Lamont Young, Executive Vice President and Head of Digital and Experience Design, shares how the bank looks for ways to improve the customer experience, reduce costs, and make paper processes digital.
Read MoreWhat’s the future of human wealth managers in an age of passive investing, ETFs, and robo advisors? Joe Mrak, global head of wealth management at Refinitiv, says data and analytics will allow the next generation of tech-savvy wealth managers to add value and remain relevant.
Read MoreWe’ve been monitoring the updates coming from industry conference organizers in response to COVID-19.
Read MoreWhile it may be more than 200 years old, Eastern Bank is not a newcomer to innovation. Chair and CEO Bob Rivers and head of Eastern Labs Ashley Nagle Eknaian discuss its innovation labs — the first spun off an award-winning small business lending program, and the second lab combines internal innovation with partnerships in a portfolio approach to new developments.
Read MoreNews of the robo-advisor’s death may be premature. But they’ll soon be under the same pressure to outperform the market as the humans they’re replacing.
Read MoreThe gender disparity in fintech is well documented. In light of these statistics, the innovation world is waking up to the need for change and the benefits gender equity holds.
Read MoreAARP is concerned about the financial well-being of people as they age, but that goes beyond Social Security and Medicare to include fintech and healthtech. Senior Vice President of Innovation and Product Development Andy Miller shares how AARP partners with start-ups and also develops products internally.
Read MoreA few fintechs will take center stage (literally) during the annual SXSW Pitch, a competition during which start-ups present their technology to a panel of judges in front of a live audience.
Read MoreWe had another bombshell this week: Lending Club acquired Boston-based Radius Bank for $185 million.
Read MoreNow, instead of just prosecuting big tech, Europe is looking to compete with them.
Read MoreApple made waves this week when it warned investors that it would not meet revenue goals in large part due to the fallout from the Coronavirus.
Read MoreWe took note this week of a few fintech start-up funding rounds.
Read MoreIt seems the only thing Congress can agree on is its dislike of big tech.
Read MoreQuarterly insurtech funding reached an all-time high of $1.99 billion during Q4 2019.
Read MoreFintech firm Varo Money became a pioneer of sorts this week, boldly going where no fintech has gone before.
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.
