Author: Jim Bruene

Fintech in Fast Company: 15 Companies Named to 2025 List

Posted by Jim Bruene | May 12, 2025 | Featured Startups, Startups, Top Rankings (Banks)

We are suckers for business lists (we now regularly update 27 here). One that we've long admired...

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SMB Banking: Deep Dive on Ramp

Posted by Jim Bruene | Mar 13, 2025 | Credit & charge cards, Small Business (SMB/SME), Small Business Banking, Startup of the week, Startups, Unicorns (fintech)

Ramp is a New York City-based fintech startup founded in 2019 that offers corporate charge cards...

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Fintech Rocks: Why Rocket Mortgage is Buying Redfin

Posted by Jim Bruene | Mar 10, 2025 | Mortgage, Real estate, Startups

Great news today. The merger of two of my favorite companies that came up in the Web 2.0 era,...

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Best New Fintech Products & Trends of 2024

Posted by Jim Bruene | Jan 24, 2025 | 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 constantly...

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SMB Challengers: Rho Delivers Integrated Bank, Card & Payments Experience

Posted by Jim Bruene | Dec 2, 2024 | Challenger Banks, Small Business Banking, Startup of the week

There is a small business owner in one of every 3 US households. They have more complicated...

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Digital vs Traditional Banking: What’s Right for Your Small Business?

Posted by Jim Bruene | Oct 28, 2024 | Challenger Banks, Checking & Transaction Accounts, Small Business (SMB/SME), Small Business Banking, Startup of the week

As a small business owner, choosing the right banking partner comes with tradeoffs. Do you want to...

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How Have the Finovate Best of Show Winners Fared?

Posted by Jim Bruene | Aug 22, 2024 | Conferences/Events, Startups

Back in the summer of 2007 we had a simple vision for the first Finovate event. We knew we wanted...

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Digital Bank Customer Counts, Random Metrics & Other Numbers in the News (Aug 2024)

Posted by Jim Bruene | Aug 14, 2024 | Startups

The maddeningly opaque metrics of private fintech startups has been a source of frustration for...

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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

Note: Look here for the most recent update on Mercury.  ——————...

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