In 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 MoreOnsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Thomas Fuss, CTO of Backbase.
Read MoreUnveiling the future of fintech through daily insights
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 MoreOnsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Barry McCarthy, CEO & President of Deluxe.
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 an interview with The Financial Revolutionist, Marqeta CEO Simon Khalaf highlights Marqeta’s recent data on holiday BNPL spending, justifies expanded use of BNPL in the face of consumer debt and hardship, and outlines Marqeta’s growth and product strategies.
Read MoreOnsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Yinglian Xie, CEO & Founder of DataVisor.
Read MoreThe past 48 hours have encapsulated the relationship between crypto players and their regulators so uncannily that such a drama would’ve been scrapped in a writers’ room for being too far-fetched yet on-the-nose.
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 MoreThrough Go Flex, Uber hopes to use bartering and a semblance of consumer freedom as a strategy for growth. But this payments scheme obfuscates a deeper crisis in supply.
Read MoreOnsite at Money20/20, The FR sat down with Raj Sundaresan, CEO of Altimetrik.
Read MoreFrom Matt Ober: The downstream cost of leveraging AI, I believe, will become more expensive or be continuously funded by VC money in the near team. We are already seeing the lawsuits pop up with the New York Times. Owners of data and content want to get paid!
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.
