In an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, and a week after Clear Street’s $165M Series B announcement—making the company a unicorn—Bailey details the market gap Clear Street tackles, explains why capital markets have been slow to modernize, and outlines how new technology can level the playing field between large and small players.
Read MoreReporting by Business Insider exposed a woefully delayed pivot to crypto trading by Robinhood. An overly cautious legal team and leadership churn further contributed to the slow pace.
Read MoreDaniel Defense, which allegedly manufactured the weapon used to kill 21 people last week at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, offers BNPL financing through the fintech Credova. Larger BNPL providers, like Affirm, Afterpay, and Klarna, do not work with firearms sellers in the U.S.
Read MoreThe international payments network, in partnership with Capgemini, a French IT services company, is testing how to interlink domestic Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) for international payments.
Read MoreIn an op-ed for MIT Technology Review, Lana Swartz, who studies the history and future of money at the University of Virginia, reflects on monetary tools that serve public interests. Cash, she argues, is the best financial technology for community and individual autonomy.
Read MoreThe Indian hotel proptech is pushing back plans for a public launch due to volatile market conditions. Oyo had previously fired thousands of employees at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read MoreIn an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Danielle Kane, Director of Small Business Banking at Grasshopper Bank, explains the bank’s lean partnership model, describes how small businesses can operate like consumers, and hints at the bank’s long-term goals.
Read MoreThe cryptocurrency exchange announced that select users in the U.S. have access to commission-free trading for hundreds of exchange-listed securities, including both stocks and ETFs.
Read MorePlaid announced that it’s launching products that offer identity verification, which hopes to make account linking and identity verification a simultaneous process. The company is also moving into ACH payments.
Read MoreAlex de Vries, a data scientist at the Dutch Central Bank, said the crypto sector’s $1T loss in the past few months may have slowed the growth of data mining, but it hasn’t decreased it. He estimated that, respectively, Bitcoin and Ether use as much electricity as Thailand and Kazakhstan.
Read MoreLast week, the real estate listing giant said it would display the risk of a home being damaged in a wildfire over the next thirty years in its listings. The data comes from the First Street Foundation as well as the U.S. Forest Service.
Read MoreAlly Financial announced the launch of a new wealth management offering, which provides access to human advisors, rather than robo advisors, for clients with more than $100,000 in investable assets.
Read MoreIn a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the SEC’s use of an administrative judge violated a defendant’s seventh amendment right to a jury trial. Judge Elrod, who was appointed to the court by President George W. Bush, wrote the majority opinion.
Read MoreIn an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Federico Baradello, Founder and CEO of Finalis, dives into his company’s mission, outlines how compliance can be a strategy for growth, and encourages other entrepreneurs to find “unsexy” but promising niches to disrupt.
Read MoreThe Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) said on Monday that it will start distributing Consumer Finance Protection cyclicals to other agencies and enforcers. The CFPB hopes the documentation can create more consistent consumer finance enforcement across the U.S. regulatory landscape.
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