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Chime, Uniswap, and the future of finance could soon struggle

Lex Sokolin

It doesn’t have an ILC charter from Utah, or a crypto bank charter from Wyoming, or a straight-up bank charter like Varo, nor has it acquired any banks like Lending Club or Jiko. The bank had one of the most interesting private equity and digitization strategies in the US for the middle market in the 2010s. No shenanigans.

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