Fintech

An attempt to make point-of-sale payment devices obsolete

10/19/20

MagicCube’s i-Accept is a hardware-free option for accepting card and electronic payments that could appeal to cost-conscious small businesses and open up a new market for banks that provide them payments services.

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Ex-Trump adviser Cohn predicts bleak future for community banks

10/19/20

Gary Cohn, former head of the Trump administration’s National Economic Council and onetime top executive at Goldman Sachs, says technological changes will continue to make it harder for smaller financial institutions to compete and force many to be sold.

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TD Bank sues Plaid for trademark infringement, false advertising

10/14/20

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the U.S. subsidiary of Toronto-Dominion Bank accused the data aggregator Plaid of improperly using the bank’s name, trademarks and logos when it gathers TD customers' data.

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SoFi launches social network for investors

10/14/20

Clients of the challenger bank's robo-adviser are able to see one another's trades, add comments and watch a leaderboard of top investors.

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Using payments tech to punch above your weight

10/14/20

Nano Banc's president, Mark Troncale sits down with PaymentsSource's senior editor Kate Fitzgerald to discuss how the fintech decided to be amongst the first wave of small-to-midsize banks adopting The Clearing House's real-time payments solution. So how did it go?

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End of an era: LendingClub to drop P2P platform

10/08/20

The San Francisco fintech, which is buying Radius Bancorp, will discontinue peer-to-peer lending and instead offer new products, like high-yield savings accounts, to its retail investors.

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Entrepreneurship in the WFH Era

10/08/20

What Jason Gardner, founder and CEO of Marqeta, has learned leading a 450-person fintech from home.

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Twitter veteran launches credit score that digs deep into cash flow

10/01/20

Harvest, a fintech founded by Nami Baral, has developed an alternative scoring method that amasses data on spending patterns, debt payments and even earnings potential to get a better sense of consumers' creditworthiness.

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Small Louisiana bank gives customers tool to safeguard their data

09/29/20

Origin Bank is rolling out software to let customers curb or shut down account-data sharing with third-party apps. In the process, it hopes to learn a lot about client behavior and preferences that it could use in its own products.

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One lender's ideas on how to save small business

09/29/20

Kabbage co-founder Kathryn Petralia, whose company is being sold to American Express, discusses government and financial-sector lifelines she says could help businesses that have been hit hardest by the pandemic.

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