Where ConnectOne Bank is investing in tech and fintech
The acquisition of the small-business lending marketplace Boefly and partnerships with the loan software company nCino and the construction lending fintech Built are among the efforts helping the New ...
26 Apr 202219min
What Seattle Bank learned from the collapse of the Google Plex deal
The bank was one of the 11 that collaborated with Google in 2020 on a plan to introduce checking accounts through Google Pay. Josh Williams, chief banking officer and head of partnerships at Seattle B...
12 Apr 202219min
How one fintech founder got funded despite not being a bro: 'I had a higher bar'
TomoCredit's Kristy Kim watched while VCs wrote checks faster to her male counterparts with similar metrics, but bypassed her startup. Now she has the growth to show they were wrong.
29 Mars 202215min
Why Sultan Meghji quit as FDIC innovation chief
Meghji only made it a year as chief innovation officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. before leaving in recent weeks. He describes the obstacles to new ideas within federal banking agencies an...
15 Mars 202220min
'This is a tremendous community and it's not getting services it needs'
Yasaman Hadjibashi, who formerly worked at Citi and Barclays, and Keith Armstrong, a co-founder of Abe.ai, have created a fintech startup that helps people coming home from prison find work, obtain a ...
1 Mars 202218min
Grasshopper Bank's challenge: Designing apps for people who make apps
The digital-only bank, which is due to launch March 1, is trying to develop an Amazon-like banking experience for the most finicky of clients: tech startup founders, says CEO Mike Butler.
15 Feb 202222min
'Small banks are disappearing': FDIC's Jelena McWilliams
In her last week in office, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chair discusses why she worries about the dwindling number of community banks and minority-owned banks, why she has made serving low-inc...
1 Feb 202222min
The year crypto will become a must-have for banks
Traditional banks could be forced to add cryptocurrency product offerings in 2022 to compete with fintechs that are taking advantage of blockchain innovations, according to Diogo Mónica, co-founder an...
18 Jan 202227min
