That Sweet Fat Margin Mortgage Lending Opportunity Is Ripe for the Picking
The two biggest investment decisions that consumers face are education (which we looked at last week) and home. Mortgage lending...
Swiss Fintech Made a Big Step Forward Last Week
Last week I went to see the unveiling of the SIX F10 Fintech Incubator and the inaugural Swiss Fintech pitch...
The Accelerator Boom: Bubble, or New Form of Post-Corporate Work?
The case for Accelerators being a sign that we are in a tech bubble: This is what happened in the...
DealIndex: Aggregating & Adding Value to Unbundled Alternative Financing
The Unbundling of Finance is talked about, it is info graphed, and it is happening left and right. Private markets...
Partnerships Mature Between Fintech Ventures and Banks
We see three levels of maturity in the relationship between Fintech ventures and Banks: Level 1: Incomprehension. The other party just...
Changing Social Values Drive Insurers’ Green and Sustainability Agenda
There is little doubt that the insurance industry has at least one eye firmly focused on the impact of technology....
4 of Latest Y Combinator Startups Serve the Underbanked: GetSaida, Xendit, TabMoney, Xfers
It is worth looking at Y Combinator batches because it is such a Darwinian process that it reveals underlying trends....
Crash of the “Faux Unicorns” & Birth of the Anti-Fragile Unicorns
There will be another recession/bear market. Nobody knows when or how deep, but the statistical probability of mean reversion is...
LendingRobot and NSRInvest, “les fiancées” of LendingClub
By Efi Pylarinou It has been bloodbath out there this past week and this Monday looks dismal for Europe and...
Fintech Startups Cannot Change the Math of Education Inflation
The old wisdom was that your biggest financial decision was which house to buy and how to finance it. That...
