Hi guys, welcome to the Fintech Coffee Break. I’m your host, Isabelle Castro. This week, I sat down with Tim Astanov, SVP of product commercialization and partnerships at Tabapay to talk about the company’s support of digital tipping platforms. This was a relatively new area for me. So, we delved into the importance tipping has […]
Sift’s latest Digital Trust and Safety Index describes how artificial intelligence (AI) is fuelling a fraud surge that will challenge retailers and financial institutions. It’s behind a more-than-fourfold increase in the account hacking attempt rate in the first quarter of 2023 compared to all of 2022. You’re not alone if you feel subject to increased […]
The lack of transparency in the traditional financial system has long caused concern among economists. “A bank’s financial statements provide a depiction of reality, not reality itself,” wrote Robert Bushman in his paper on transparency and bank stability. Every quarter, the industry is provided with a snapshot of financial institutions’ health, isolated within the confines […]
An entire sub-niche of fintech has emerged in the last five years. Given the API economy that has been developed, it is now possible to connect in real-time to most sources of income for the vast majority of the population. This has enabled completely new products to be developed and made some existing products much […]
Affirm CEO Max Levchin opened the company’s earnings call with positivity and pride – a far cry from six months ago. RELATED: Job cuts and missed targets: Affirm’s earnings call In a letter sent to investors prior to the call, Levchin took stock of the past year, reiterating the company’s commitment to reaching profitability. In […]
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On August 17, 2023, the Federal Reserve Board and Washington State Department of Financial Institutions (WSDFI) announced an enforcement action against Farmington State Bank and its holding company, FBH Corporation. The Fed and WSDFI found that the bank improperly changed its business plan without notifying the bank’s supervisors and obtaining prior approval for those changes […]
Rodney Williams of SoLo Funds The first wave of fintech focused on helping those people who already had money. The bottom half of the population was mostly ignored, and those companies that did try failed to get traction. But in recent years, there has been a new breed of fintech company emerging squarely focused on […]
How many times have you heard the word AI this week? It’s all everyone is talking about. And the real estate sector is no exception to this latest trend. In real estate, this revolution is led by mortgage lending where processes are the easiest to automate. In today’s swiftly evolving digital environment, mortgage automation is […]
Warren Buffett-backed Nubank reported a 44% increase in adjusted net income in the second quarter, up to $262.7 million, as the digital bank continues to expand its customer base in Latin America. With a market value of approximately $40 billion, Nubank stands as the largest fintech venture in Brazil. It has achieved positive net income […]