Why the Facebook of Banking Won’t Own a Charter
2014 was the biggest year in FinTech by far with billions being invested globally in what is to be expected in a ...
Year: 2014
Primary Fintech Innovation Defined, and Why Klarna Fits the Bill
Primary innovation is doing something that has never been done before. Most primary innovation is ridiculous and fails without anybody ...
JPMorgan Chase Hack Due to Missing 2-Factor Authentication on One Server
JPMorgan Chase was among five banks that were reported to have been hacked earlier this year, and details have emerged on ...
Green Dot, Walmart Reach One-Year Contract Extension
Green Dot Corp. announced Monday that it will continue to sell its prepaid cards in Wal-Mart stores, which are easily ...
Apple Pay Adds Access to 21 Million Customers
As the year races to a close, Apple continues to sign banks onto its Apple Pay mobile payment platform at ...
Real Fintech Unicorns By Location
This will be a short post, because my definition of Unicorn is over $1 billion in realized value (in either ...
MasterCard Launches New Hackathon Series for Developers
MasterCard announced a new series of 10 hackathons spanning the globe today. The series will focus on developers and be ...
Apple Pay Dominates Our Top 25 Posts of the Year
Forget the Year of the Horse (apologies to our Chinese readers), but for the banking innovation industry, 2014 was the ...
Fintech in Germany Is Quietly Big But Lacking a City Magnet
British people sometimes complain about how much London dominates the UK economy. However, when it comes to Fintech that is ...
Lawsky Floats Further Revision to BitLicense Proposal
Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of financial services for the New York State Department of Financial Services, is perhaps best known among ...
