It has been a wild ride for many companies that come under the heading ‘“FinTech.” Case in point: MoneyLion. Just a year ago the company was a neobank struggling under a $9 million loss for Q1 2023. Fast forward a year and the data-driven financial...
A new global business identity platform is on the scene, enabling banks, FinTechs and enterprises to verify and onboard businesses of all sizes, particularly smaller businesses. Four years and hundreds of millions of data points in the making, Markaaz has a unique, two-sided business model...
Nothing dulls the enterprise risk appetite like uncertainty. And for today’s businesses, the focus remains on navigating the threats of recession, cybersecurity risks and pressure to demonstrate sustainable profitability. But mitigating risk doesn’t have to mean abandoning growth opportunities — it just means that investments...
There are people who say they are an AI expert and there’s Akli Adjaoute. He was on the case early in the technology’s lifecycle and brings a unique, grounded perceptive to its current and future usage honed over three decades of expertise. He is currently...
May 09, 2022
The Bank of Mom & Dad (BOMD) isn’t just a sitcom line. One analysis found that parents lent their kids a collective $47 billion in 2019, mostly in the form of down payments on first homes. What if those first-time homebuyers had become financial ninjas at 15? They might not have needed that humbling BOMD […]
March 14, 2022
There’s no consensus on the number of undocumented people living and working in the U.S. Estimates vary widely, from just under 12 million to more than 20 million. Even critics...
March 07, 2022
It’s become conventional wisdom to assume that the pandemic has made us all experts in digital commerce, navigating our devices with aplomb, clicking and buying and having things delivered to...
February 14, 2022
The internet is almost as pervasive in our lives as, well, breathing. With mobile devices in hand — and with voice-activated assistants, wearables with headsets, videos and apps — virtually...
