Author: Jim Bruene

Top 10 Digital Challenger Banks for Your Kids (July 2024)

Posted by Jim Bruene | Jul 24, 2024 | Challenger Banks, Startups, Top Rankings (Banks), Youth finances

According to Dealbook, $1.1 billion has been invested into youth banking startups. Half went to...

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Best New Fintech Products & Trends of 2024 (as of June 2024)

Posted by Jim Bruene | Jun 18, 2024 | Accounting/bookkeeping, Checking & Transaction Accounts, Credit & charge cards, Insurance, Investing, Lenders, New Products, Payments, Personal Financial Management (PFM)

We’ve been obsessed with new fintech products since before the term was invented. This...

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

Posted by Jim Bruene | Apr 12, 2024 | Awards, Fintech Hall of Fame, New Products

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest,...

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Top 23 Small Business (SMB) Banks, Lenders & Card Issuers with the Largest U.S. Digital Presence

Posted by Jim Bruene | Mar 20, 2024 | Data & Analytics, Small Business (SMB/SME), Small Business Banking

We usually focus on the digital-first challengers that have risen to prominence in the past 7 or 8...

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Conference Alert: New Fintech Event to Focus on AI (duh!)

Posted by Jim Bruene | Mar 15, 2024 | AI, Conferences/Events, Startups

The pandemic slowed the introduction of new events. In the fintech space, only Fintech Meetup,...

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Mercury Adds Subscription Monitoring to its Banking Services

Posted by Jim Bruene | Mar 12, 2024 | Checking & Transaction Accounts, Small Business Payments, Startup of the week, Startups

Simple spend management tools top my list of advanced digital banking features (see previous...

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AI in Financial Services: Top Deployments in 2024 in Banking, Investing, Insurance, Fintech, and more

Posted by Jim Bruene | Mar 3, 2024 | Startups

With AI mentioned in every press release, trade publication article and marketing pitch,...

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The 350 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Year-End 2023)

Posted by Jim Bruene | Feb 29, 2024 | Startups, Unicorns (fintech)

  At FintechLabs we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated daily (current...

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VC Challengers: 6 Largest U.S. Equity Crowdfunding Startups (Dec 2023)

Posted by Jim Bruene | Dec 5, 2023 | Crowdfunding, Data & Analytics, Small Business (SMB/SME), Startups

Startups looking to raise capital have more options today thanks to evolving technology,...

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Top 66 Online Digital Banks for U.S. Consumers (Nov 2023)

Posted by Jim Bruene | Nov 10, 2023 | Challenger Banks, Checking & Transaction Accounts, Data & Analytics, Startup of the week, Startups, Top Rankings (Banks)

Consumers have been banking online for 28 years. And from the very beginning, there have been...

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The Small Business (SMB) Challenger Banks: Novo

Posted by Jim Bruene | Sep 18, 2023 | Challenger Banks, Checking & Transaction Accounts, Small Business Banking, Startups

Just 7 years old, Novo is tied for the oldest provider on our digital SMB banking list. The...

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The SMB Challenger Banks: Relay Financial Moves Up the Value Chain with Advanced Money Management Tools

Posted by Jim Bruene | Sep 10, 2023 | Challenger Banks, Checking & Transaction Accounts, Featured Startups, Small Business Banking, Startup of the week, Startups

Founded just 5 years ago (Oct 2018), Toronto-based Relay Financial is the only non-USA company on...

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