Kraken’s Big Asset Tokenization Play

May 22, 2025 | Cryptocurrency/Blockchain, Investing, Startups | 0

While I'm not a crypto/blockchain fanboy, I have long expected asset tokenization for retail...

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Digital SMB Banks: Relay Continues to Build Out a Robust Offering

May 20, 2025 | Challenger Banks, Checking & Transaction Accounts, Small Business Banking, Startups | 0

Since we last profiled Relay Financial (Sep 2023), the challenger bank has expanded its product...

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Digital SMB Banking: Mercury* Increases its Lead

May 19, 2025 | Challenger Banks, Checking & Transaction Accounts, Small Business Banking, Startup of the week, Startups | 0

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Fintech in Fast Company: 15 Companies Named to 2025 List

May 12, 2025 | Featured Startups, Startups, Top Rankings (Banks) | 0

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

Mar 13, 2025 | Credit & charge cards, Small Business (SMB/SME), Small Business Banking, Startup of the week, Startups, Unicorns (fintech) | 0

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

Mar 10, 2025 | Mortgage, Real estate, Startups | 0

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

Jan 24, 2025 | Accounting/bookkeeping, Checking & Transaction Accounts, Credit & charge cards, Insurance, Investing, Lenders, New Products, Payments, Personal Financial Management (PFM) | 0

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

Dec 2, 2024 | Challenger Banks, Small Business Banking, Startup of the week | 0

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?

Oct 28, 2024 | Challenger Banks, Checking & Transaction Accounts, Small Business (SMB/SME), Small Business Banking, Startup of the week | 0

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?

Aug 22, 2024 | Conferences/Events, Startups | 0

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)

Aug 14, 2024 | Startups | 0

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

Apr 12, 2024 | Awards, Fintech Hall of Fame, New Products | 0

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

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