A Bad Week for Square?
Was this a really bad week for Square? Square's announcement that it had partnered with Intuit to share data between ...
Tag: Capital & Funding
Innovation in Banking Today… and in 2018
Bank Innovation's State of Banking Innovation survey for the third quarter polled industry watchers on what innovation looked like in ...
PayPal Offers Small Business Loans (and Acquires Rival Braintree for $800 Million)
PayPal is no stranger to risk management -- taking on the risk for online transactions is why PayPal exists. The ...
P2P Lender Prosper Nets $25 Million in Capital
Prosper Marketplace Inc. announced yesterday that it has raised an additional $25 million in funding, bringing its total to about ...
Former VeriFone CEO Gets $500M to Roll Up FinTech Companies
The former CEO of VeriFone has landed $500 million of capital from GTCR to roll up FinTech ventures into "a ...
Bank Innovation Named a Top Blog for Second Consecutive Year
Once again, Bank Innovation was named one of the 20 best financial industry blogs by The Financial Brand (which itself ...
Goldman Puts Its FinTech Focus Squarely on Cards
The future of payments may be mobile, but its present is emphatically plastic. For evidence, look no further than the ...
MasterCard Partners with Startup EFL — But Doesn’t Take an Equity Stake
MasterCard announced a partnership with alternative scoring startup Entrepreneurial Finance Labs (EFL) earlier this week. The deal did not involve ...
Consumer Interest in Banking Remains Historically High, Perhaps Permanently So
I have maintained that banking has inexorably changed since the credit crisis began five years ago this week. I have ...
Why America Needs to Reinvent Banking, Not Add Banking Regulation
With the passage yesterday of the five-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’s failure on Sept. 15, 2008, invariably pundits have asked ...
