Square 1 Bank and What’s Messed Up About Banking
If you want to know what's screwed up about banking, check out Square 1 Bank. Here at Bank Innovation, we ...
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Working Capital Finance is the hard-to-see Elephant
In the story of the blind men and the elephant: “Each one feels a different part, but only one part, ...
SMB Financing is a window of opportunity ‘big enough to drive a truck through’
The last market opportunity “big enough to drive a truck through” that I witnessed was the difference between time spent ...
Could bitcoin help me cut the 40% that Amazon takes to sell my book?
There are two reasons for my crowdsourced case study: Reason # 1: Make more money from my book. I understand ...
The Creative Economy, Micropayments and Bitcoin
About 40% of the labor force in America will be self employed by 2020. Globally, including the developing world, well over ...
OnDeck Launches Marketplace for Institutional Investors
Small business lender OnDeck (NYSE: ONDK) announced the launch of a platform for institutional investors today. Properly speaking, the platform soft-launched ...
We are in the 4th Fintech Era
This blog is usually about Emergent Fintech; in this post I looked at Traditional Fintech. However, that breakdown may be ...
Fintech City Tour Goes to China To Find Disrupters Getting Banking Licenses
The beauty of the digit express is that I can go wherever I want (“beam me up Scotty”). Using airplanes ...
The EMV Trigger for Mainstream Merchant Adoption of Bitcoin
Warning: Speculative futurology alert (aka trying to see where the puck is headed). The most important metric for bitcoin is ...
Small business – not consumer – is driving Alternative Finance
The NESTA study has a wealth of data about UK Alternative Finance, but one fact jumps off the page “It’s ...
