Weekly Wrap - Week ending March 6, 2020
Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.

Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.
Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.
Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.
Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.
In this new episode of “Fintech Unfiltered,” Bank Innovation sat down with Kelly Ford, who was recently named new general partner at Edison Partners, to discuss the challenger banks and platforms in which the firm has invested, and why.
Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.
Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.
Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.
Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.
Royal Media CEO JJ Hornblass hosted an event in the company’s Manhattan office to discuss Citi Ventures, and D10x, incubates new concepts and ideas.
In this episode of Fintech Unfiltered, Bank Innovation sat down with BMO Financial Group‘s Ben Schack to discuss the mutually beneficial partnerships between BMO and startups.
Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.
Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.
Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.
In this episode of Fintech Unfiltered, we sit down with OnDeck CEO Noah Breslow to talk about the small business lending company's goal of becoming a full-service bank. Breslow touches on the company's vision of a 'mom and pop' bank of the future, what steps the company is taking to get a bank charter and some of the challenges involved in the process.
Bank Innovation's end-of-week update with breaking news and key trends.
On this episode of Fintech Unfiltered, sponsored by Blend, we spoke to Unconventional Ventures founder Theodora Lau on the lack of diversity in fintech and startups. She argues that better representation leads to better innovation for new products and services.
On this episode of Fintech Unfiltered, sponsored by Q2 {open}, we spoke to Digit founder and CEO Ethan Bloch on Digit's next steps and the future of personal finance. Bloch emphasized the goal is not to replace the bank but to help customers manage their money better through automation. This is an excerpt from a phone interview.
August de los Reyes, Varo's new chief design officer, brings a resume that includes head of design at Xbox, head of design at Pinterest and director of user experience at Google. We sat down with de los Reyes to learn more about his future plans for the banking startup's design.
Credit Sesame, which raised $43 million last week, provides free credit scores and insights into how to improve those scores. The company also suggests loans and credit cards that could help. We interviewed Credit Sesame CEO Adrian Nazari for a story this week. This is an excerpt from that phone interview.
In this episode of Fintech Unfiltered, we sit down with Stephen Corliss, CEO of the social investment startup Huddl. Corliss climbed to senior management positions at big financial firms like UBS and Blackrock before pivoting into the startup world. Bank Innovation talked to Corliss about the transition and what he brings to the table coming from big finance.
The key benefit of using programming language Scala to build a digital platform is a feature called Type Safety, which allows for better and faster testing because it allows detecting "errors while writing the code," before running it, according to Jason Brown, CEO and co-founder of fintech Tally. In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered podcast, Brown explained that Scala is an important, but underrated, layer to develop a cloud-based platform for financial services because of its ability t...
The volatile markets in 2018 were hard for many investors to grasp. Gal Krubiner, CEO of Pagaya, discusses how his algorithms looked at the year that was and the year ahead on behalf of the company's institutional clients. Krubiner still spends much of his time evangelizing how AI is a better way for managing fixed income assets. How will the wealth management space handle the disruption heading its ways? And where will the smart money be in 2019? Listen to Krubiner's take here.
In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, the podcast from Bank Innovation and its sister accelerator INV Fintech, newly appointment Financial Data Exchange managing director Don Cardinal talks about the group’s mission to set standards for data sharing and where it’s going to focus its attention, which includes the areas of data semantics and secure authentication.
In the five years since payments company PayPal acquired Braintree, a comprehensive payment platform, it has seen a 54% YOY growth, according to Juan Benitez, general manager at Braintree. In 2019, Braintree wants to maintain that momentum but will also be undertaking three key innovation initiatives. In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, Benitez explains those three areas of focus and much more.
In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, Jeremy Balkin, the head of innovation at HSBC Bank USA talks to Bank Innovation about HSBC’s lofty innovation strategy for 2018, including everything from system upgrades to installing a real robot in the bank branch. Listen to Balkin talk about all this as well as HSBC’s other innovation milestones in 2018, what’s on the roadmap for 2019 as well as what the future of banking will look like, in his opinion.
JPMorgan Chase leads the U.S. in mobile banking with 32 million mobile banking users, the most for any U.S. bank. So why build Finn, an entirely new digital bank? Melissa Feldsher, managing director at JPMorgan Chase and head of Finn, discusses why (and how) the new bank was built, in this episode of Fintech Unfiltered.
In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, N26 USA CEO Nicolas Kopp talks about what goes into setting up a challenger bank in the U.S., why he thinks the U.S. market is ready for a mobile-first bank and why N26 USA decided against a banking license in the U.S.A., the opposite decision it made in Europe.
Payment platform Dwolla's head of strategic projects, Jordan Lampe, talks about realtime payments in this episode of Fintech Unfiltered podcast. Lampe explains how banks can use this transactional data to tailor exiting products and services, but also create new ones based on the realtime information exchange taking place during the transaction.
This month's edition of INV Unfiltered features fintech expert Chris Skinner, who is speaking about the global impact of Chinese digital payment companies like Alipay.