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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Marketplace lending. Marketplace Lending.

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Financial Services Platform SoFi Plans IPO Via SPAC

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billion, with the goal of bringing FinTech businesses to public markets. SoFi partnered with Samsung and Mastercard to launch a new cash management account feature with no fees. Founded in 2011, SoFi has worked to leverage lending after the 2008 financial crisis, focusing on student loan refinancing.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

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Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It’s still going under the stewardship of fintech famous Jim Marous, who modernized the name to Digital Banking Report (and recently opened the archives for free access).

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Dr. Strangelove or: How Fintechs Will Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Regulation

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The guiding ethos of fintech (and really any industry portmanteau ending in ‘tech’) is move fast and break things. The most prominent villain for fintech companies is regulation. And when fintechs and challenger banks aren’t constrained by regulation (as they mostly are in the U.S. Generally this ethos is presented as a virtue.

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Reports of Small Business Lending’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated

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In the US, small business customers get bounced around like Goldilocks—they are too small to be of interest to commercial relationship managers and too complex to be easily understood by retail branch staff. The lack of “just right” solutions for many small business financial problems has been a golden opportunity for FinTech firms.

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Mercury Adds Subscription Monitoring to its Banking Services

Fintech Labs Insights

At the top of my list of advanced digital banking features (see previous post) are simple spend management tools. And there are none more important than subscription management. Enter Mercury and its latest product improvement, automated subscription management.

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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Jan 2021 update)

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At FintechLIVE we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. The first, Divvy, is a corporate credit card and expense management firm in the same category with Brex, Expensify, and others. trillion up from $1.25