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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. PwC suggests that 70% of all such funding is pointless, falling apart either at the management, technology, or business process level. No shenanigans.

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Braintree, Finicity, and Twilio Take Top Honors at API World Awards

Fintech Labs Insights

Braintree earned the top spot in the Payment APIs category for its payments platform technology, and Finicity won first place in the Finance APIs category for its Financial Data API with TxPUSH. Twilio demonstrated its Authy Two-Factor Authentication technology at FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 and at FinovateFall 2015.