Earned Wage Access (EWA) has been creeping up on the sidelines, and although it is relatively nascent, it has caught the attention of consumers and investors alike. Touted for improving employee access to earned wages, it has reduced the need for expensive payday loans. Gerron Levi, SVP, Head of Government Affairs at the American Fintech […]
Charles Rosenblatt of PayQuicker Where fintech has had a dramatic impact already is in international payments. Sure, there is still work to do but there are companies out there today facilitating payments, often instantly, to people all around the world. My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Charles Rosenblatt, the President of PayQuicker. […]
Lex chats with Sasha Orloff, CEO and Co-founder of Puzzle – “the first smart accounting software,” which combines a streaming financial data platform that’s connected to a general accounting ledger. Sasha starts the conversation detailing his journey from traditional banking to fintech entrepreneurship. Sasha Orloff Reflecting on the early days of fintech, contrasting the East […]
Dominican Republic’s traditional bank Popular made waves in the Caribbean when it announced the launch of Qik, the first neobank on the island. With over $10 billion in assets, the financial group -one of the largest in the country- envisaged a need to serve younger customers with a particular digital-only institution. This trend is increasingly […]
Fresh off the back of the Terra-Luna collapse last year, BCG published a report that said despite a slowdown in trading volumes and crypto market cap, tokenization of illiquid assets was predicted to reach $16 trillion within the next decade. An FTX meltdown, some bank failures supposedly tied to crypto, and multiple SEC enforcement actions […]
Fraud has been rising in the US. According to official estimates made by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), consumers reported 2.4 million instances of fraud in 2022. The number has risen by 30% since 2021 and has led to $8.8 billion in losses. The business of crime is booming, and reports of “Fraud as a […]
This recording is from Fintech Nexus USA held at the Javits Center in New York City on May 10-11, 2023. Session: “Lessons Learned During the Difficult Times” from the track Credit & Underwriting Best Practices for Uncertain Times – Sponsored by BHG. Featuring: Al Crawford, BHG Peter Renton, Fintech Nexus To receive updates about the […]
This recording is from Fintech Nexus USA held at the Javits Center in New York City on May 10-11, 2023. Session: “Fairness Through Blindness isn’t Working – it is Time for a New Approach” from the track Credit & Underwriting Best Practices for Uncertain Times – Sponsored by BHG. Featuring: Kareem Saleh, Fairplay Greg Wright, […]
This recording is from Fintech Nexus USA held at the Javits Center in New York City on May 10-11, 2023. Session: “How Banks Benefit from AI & Data in Auto and Consumer Lending” from the track Credit & Underwriting Best Practices for Uncertain Times – Sponsored by BHG. Featuring: Justin Wickett, Informed.IQ Tanya Sanders, Wells […]
This recording is from Fintech Nexus USA held at the Javits Center in New York City on May 10-11, 2023. Session: “Mitigating Risks While Reaping the Rewards of AI to Accelerate Identity Verification” from the track Credit & Underwriting Best Practices for Uncertain Times – Sponsored by BHG. Featuring: Ronan Burke, Inscribe Christina Luttrell, IDology […]