Lending Technology Gains Prominence Amidst COVID-19 Response

Lending Technology Gains Prominence Amidst COVID-19 Response

Boss Insights has been addressing the need for faster, digitized lending platforms since long before the coronavirus outbreak. CEO and co-founder Keren Moynihan shares how collaboration — with the media, accelerators, and Oracle — has helped her company tailor its offering specifically to Paycheck Protection Program applications.

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Fintech’s Role When the Economy Shifts From ‘Respond’ to ‘Recover’

Fintech’s Role When the Economy Shifts From ‘Respond’ to ‘Recover’

Post-COVID-19 opportunities can come from thinking big and acting boldly now.

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Lending Technology Providers Prepare for PPP Part 2

Lending Technology Providers Prepare for PPP Part 2

Lending tech has — and will — be crucial for small businesses to access U.S. stimulus funds.

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Crowdsourcing to Achieve Innovation in Banking

Crowdsourcing to Achieve Innovation in Banking

U.S. Bank has been at innovation for 10 years and has seven teams working on it. Stephanie Hammes-Betti heads up one of those groups, Innovation Design. She describes her work as the front end of innovation, looking for new ideas to bring to the bank to evaluate.

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Slow-and-Steady Might Be Paying off for Banks

Slow-and-Steady Might Be Paying off for Banks

Are banks the tortoise in this financial-crisis-to-coronavirus-era race?

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Is Revolution Creating Room for Entrenchment?

Is Revolution Creating Room for Entrenchment?

The current economic situation is the first true test for fintech companies born as a result from a previous global crisis: the Great Recession.

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Early-Stage Investors Offer Their Outlook

Early-Stage Investors Offer Their Outlook

As negative headlines and gloom-and-doom opinions swirl about the future of start-up investment, the well-known venture capital firm 500 Startups has gone to the source by surveying nearly 140 early-stage investors.

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Asset Management Asleep at the Wheel?

Asset Management Asleep at the Wheel?

Compared to other areas of finance — like banking, payments, and insurance — asset management has been slower to adopt technology-fueled transformations.

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A Tech-Infused Wealth Management Advisor Offering Human-Infused Advice

A Tech-Infused Wealth Management Advisor Offering Human-Infused Advice

Personal Capital offers a free dashboard where users can pull together all their financial accounts for a holistic view of their assets and liabilities. CEO Jay Shah discusses the company’s notable growth during the past 16 months.

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IPC Soft Turrets Powering Remote Capital Markets Trading

IPC Soft Turrets Powering Remote Capital Markets Trading

IPC provides technologies and services that are enabling traders to work from a PC in a backup center or from home during the COVID-19 crisis. CEO Bob Santella shares how the rapid transition has transpired.

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Speed: It’s How Fintechs Say They Can Help With U.S. Stimulus Payments

Speed: It’s How Fintechs Say They Can Help With U.S. Stimulus Payments

Speed is an oft-cited cultural difference between traditional financial service companies and their fintech counterparts, especially start-ups. And that’s a big benefit fintechs say they can offer the U.S. government as it prepares to dole out the stimulus payments enacted under the $2 trillion CARES Act.

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40+ Year Old Microsoft Teaming Up With 6+ Year Old Plaid

40+ Year Old Microsoft Teaming Up With 6+ Year Old Plaid

Microsoft, the gigantic technology company founded in 1975, is coming together with Plaid, the fresh-faced fintech that allows users to connect their bank accounts to an app.

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