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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. Google has seen an opportunity as well and is promoting its own comparison engine in that space. 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

As the company’s Managing Partner Harry Langenberg pointed out, SuperMoney is taking the same approach to loan comparison that “won Google the search engine wars.” ” He explained, “rather than ranking results based on payout, Google’s algorithms presented results based on relevance.

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Fintech Labs Launches Space for Small Businesses to Connect with Digital Financial Services (Banks, Lenders, Insurers, Payment Processors, Accounting)

Fintech Labs Insights

Lending : Our largest category tracks 33 digital alt-lenders predominantly lending to small-and-medium U.S. About Fintech Labs : Launched as a financial services UX consultancy in 2001, Fintech Labs serves small business owners with its guide to digital financial services and fintech. small businesses. businesses.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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mobile, remote capture); it partners with the likes of Google, Schwab and TrueCar; and its talent is active every day with 150+ agile team members creating new capabilities and the highest Net Promoter Score in banking. Big Pile of Nothing Award – Goes to Google on its checking account announcement. It is an innovator with tech (e.g.,

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Fintech Trending: Look Who’s Chasing Venmo, Student Loan Servicing Falls Short

Fintech Labs Insights

While there is no word yet on UI and UX specifics such as emojis with special powers, gifs, and social feeds, there have been a few questions about the name Zelle, which Urban Dictionary defines as, “a girl who is attractive and intelligent.” Development. “IBM Opens Bluemix Garage in New York City” – Finovate.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

In each instance, we tore apart the UX and UI of each tool, looked at their growth and revenue numbers, pored through interviews with founders and early employees, researched their public reception, talked to employees, and did our own math. visitors from Google every month. When people have a problem, they Google it.

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