Challenger Bank Chime Launches a Debit/Credit Hybrid Product
Challenger bank Chime, with its 8 million accounts and $5.8 Billion valuation, has launched a new product that appears to...
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Analysts Coverage
New MineralTree Survey Shows Key Trends in Middle Market
This release is about results from a survey conducted by MineralTree, a payables automation fintech based in Cambridge, Mass. The...
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COVID-19 and the Middle Market – From Reaction to Reality
Today, I came across a very interesting infographic from the National Center for the Middle Market. For background, the Center,...
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CFPB: A Consumer Protection or a Political Football?
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a quasi-federal agency, was born from the Great Recession. Since its founding, it helped reduce...
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If You Aren’t Thinking About Applying Robots During the Pandemic, Maybe You Should
This article in Texas A&M Today examines recent research into how the pandemic has increased robot usage. In most cases, the...
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Vegas Casinos Betting On Cashless Gambling
What are the odds on Las Vegas casinos going cashless? Looks like better than even right now if the COVID-19...
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The Fintech Spiff Secures $10 Million Investment
This brief posting in TechCrunch is about a fintech called Spiff, a 2017 startup out of Utah that provides sales...
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Credit Card Lending: Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair
Act 1, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth comes to mind when considering the challenge of credit card lenders today, as...
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Wirecard Failure Takes Four Fintechs Offline
This Crypto Mode article identifies four companies, Curve, Pockit,Crypto.com, and ANNA Money, that have been crippled by the Wirecard fiasco; but...
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Dead Men Tell No Tales, but They Do Get Economic Impact Payments
The effort required to deliver the hundreds of millions of economic impact payments totaling $267 billion to consumers with very...
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