The State of Consumer FinTech
Marc Andreessen in an interview recently said the following about finance: “We can reinvent the entire thing”. How has tech ...
Year: 2014
Was 2014 a Bad Year for Bitcoin?
As an investment, bitcoin was a particularly poor choice in 2014. You would have been better off with, well, just ...
The 2015 Fintech Headline ‘RIP Bitcoin and XBRL, Incumbency Wins’
I promised myself no New Year prognostication posts, but I could not resist this one. There is too much gloomy ...
Sneak Peek: Capital One’s New Apple Pay TV Spot
Capital One's got skin in the Apple Pay game -- pigskin, that is. We related, back on Dec. 18, that ...
PayClip, a Latin American Square, Raises $5.2 Million
Mobile payments startup Clip (PayClip Inc.), based in Redwood City, Calif., but focused on the Latin American market, announced a $5.2 million ...
Four Pivot Gates That Unicorns Pass Through
This is a “bonus chapterette” from my book Mindshare to Marketshare. Think of these Four Gates like a funnel, with ...
Alternative Lenders Dominate List of ’50 Best FinTech Innovators’
A list of the "50 Best FinTech Innovators" that has been making the rounds as the year winds down is dominated ...
Motif Investing And The Low Cost Active Alpha Space
The general Fintech category of Personal Financial Management (PFM) has two main sub categories: Tools to help you save and ...
Of the Big 5 Banks, Wells Looks Like the Year’s Winner
This has been a good year for U.S. equities in general, obviously, but also for bank stocks. Just the fact ...
$510M of Fintech Funding in 17 Deals Caps 2014
Last week was surprisingly busy given how close it was to the year-end holiday freeze. But two blockbuster deals, $250 ...
