Prosper Raises Rates in Wake of Bond Downgrade
The conventional wisdom has stated for some time that marketplace lenders will be hurt when the credit cycle takes a...
Banking
Coolest Brands 2016: Silicon Valley Bank
Fintech’s ‘Community’ Bank
Silicon Valley is coming to banking? Nonsense. That happened long ago -- just ask Silicon Valley Bank, a financial institution built to...
Coolest Brands 2016: BBVA
‘Innovate or Die’
BBVA has a lot more going on than Simple, cool as that acquisition was. In Jan. 2015, CEO Francisco Gonzalez...
Coolest Brands 2016: BankMobile
There’s an Emoji for That
The other day, BankMobile posted a video of people-on-the-streets-of-New-York getting interviewed about bank fees. “If bank fees were an emoji,...
Coolest Brands 2016: Robinhood
Cracking the Millennial Code
No one’s quite sure how to win over those pesky, penniless, yet prized customers known as millennials -- except Robinhood...
Coolest Brands 2016: Digital Asset Holdings
Making Blockchain Boom
It is interesting to note that globally there has been something of a systematic crackdown on bitcoin. The enforcement actions...
Coolest Brands 2016: SoFi
Unbanking the World
Fintech companies don’t want to disrupt banks anymore -- that’s so 2012. Now it’s all about partnering, right? Not so...
Lending Club Is ‘Transforming Banking,’ But Banks Fund 25% of Its Loans
Is Lending Club transforming banking? The marketplace lender just had one of its best quarters ever, and CEO Renaud Laplanche was rightly...
The Other Unstoppable Robo-Advisor Trend: From Fees to Trust
The message has come across, loud and clear, in the investment world: “ Fees are eating up your returns” And...
SWIFT to Leverage Innotribe for Faster Payments
Get ready for the launch of a faster-payments initiative from the world's payments kingpin, SWIFT. Founded in Belgium in 1973, the...
