Kelly Fryer of FinTech Sandbox On today’s episode, I talk with Kelly Fryer, Executive Director of the FinTech Sandbox. Kelly and I talk about the mission of the FinTech Sandbox, why she enjoys working with startups, current market conditions for fintech startups, why access to data is so critical for startups, the market shift to open banking, […]
The following is an excerpt from today’s Global Newsletter. Bank-fintech partnerships have been a thing for over a decade, but there has never been comprehensive guidance on managing these. Until now. Subscribe to the Global Newsletter This week the FDIC, OCC, and the Fed produced a 68-page interagency report detailing how banks should manage third-party relationships. The […]
Earlier this week, with little fanfare, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed a bill into law that could have a lasting impact on the availability of credit to Colorado residents. As a Colorado resident and a big fan of access to credit, I have followed this bill’s status since it was introduced during this year’s legislative […]
Mark Fiorentino of Index Ventures Investing in fintech companies is never dull. The last three-plus years have seen every type of investing environment there is. Are we edging toward a new normal? Probably not yet but investment demand could start to pick up within the next nine months. My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One […]
The embedded finance market is predicted to be an area of prolific growth over the next decade. Since Angela Strange, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, uttered the famous, “Every company will become a fintech company,” in 2019, embedded finance has become ever more widely used. In a recent report by Future Market Insights, it was […]
Lex interviews Ashwin Kumar – Stripe’s Head of Startups for Banking-as-a-Service. Stripe is a financial technology (fintech) company based in San Francisco, CA, whose software allows individuals and businesses to make and receive payments online. Ashwin Kumar In this episode, Lex and Ashwin explore Stripe’s strategic positioning in the transformative world of fintech. From unraveling […]
Amid lower funding to startups, Mexican fintech firms still manage to land deals focusing on catering to underbanked individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises in the country. Kapital, which offers SMEs loans and cashflow management tools, secured fresh capital last month. It raised $20 million in a Series A and $45 million in a debt facility. […]
The following is a guest post by Tom Bell, CEO of Maast. Digital payments have won. Widespread adoption of innovations like tap-to-pay, mobile wallets, and buy-now-pay-later have removed friction at the point of sale for merchants and their customers. With cash already on the ropes, the COVID-19 pandemic dealt a decisive blow as more small- […]
The following is an excerpt from today’s Global Newsletter. This morning’s featured news is from *cough* sorry, is from Amazon, who partnered with Affirm to offer *cough* wow, sorry again… just a second… *Ahem, whoooooahhh, COUGH* There we go. Wow, that smoke is really hitting all of the wrong places this morning. Right, where was I? Oh […]
What do you get when you combine a passionate community of fraud fighters with a boxing ring and loads of knowledge and energy… Fraud Fight Club, brought to you by Mastercard. Fraud Fight Club debuted at Fintech Nexus and lived up to the hype. Expert speakers from banks, credit unions, lending institutions, fintechs, and beyond […]