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SoFi Unveils Digital Wealth Management Platform, SoFi Wealth

Fintech Labs Insights

Less than a month after announcing its new $105 million SoFi Prime Income Fund to help raise funds to issue loans, online lending innovator SoFi is making headlines again with the launch of SoFi Wealth. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, SoFi made its FinDEVr debut earlier this year at FinDEVr 2017 New York.

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Calling All Startups: Reinvent the Mortgage Process (Please)

Fintech Labs Insights

The poster child for bad UX was the denial of a mortgage to previous Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke last year. Lending Tree : Mortgage rate tracking tools & lead gen. And there is also some early stage startups forming with stated missions to improve various parts of the mortgage experience, including: Ethos Lending : Raised $8.2

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Disrupting Insurance: The Other Financial Services Opportunity

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In the last years, most of the focus on innovation in financial services has been, it seems, on banking (investing and lending) and payment. To give a few numbers, non-life insurance market world-wide in 2011 was estimated at $1,877.2 Peer to peer insurance is very much different from peer to peer lending.

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SuperMoney Brings a Kayak-Like UX to the Online Borrowing Process

Fintech Labs Insights

Lending aggregators popped up to solve this problem by ‘matching’ borrowers with lenders. Lulic: Our founding team is the same founding team that launched Optima Tax Relief in 2011 and grew it from nothing to the #3 Fastest Growing Company In America according to Inc. Magazine’s 2015 ranking. We aim to get there within two years. .

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