Boston Fintech Week is back! This seventh edition, brought to you once again by Fintech Sandbox, is running from October 14 – October 18, 2024. This year’s theme is Fintech at Full Throttle. One of the things that makes Boston Fintech Week so compelling is that it brings you speakers you haven’t seen at other conferences. The full agenda — more than 50 panels, meetups, roundtables, masterclasses, and fireside chats — is here. The speakers are listed here. You can still get a ticket to …
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Small and midsize enterprises (“SMEs”) make up almost all businesses in the EU and, indeed, around the world. But while their financial services needs are different from those of individuals and large corporations, they often report …
Private credit plays a growing role in finance and this market segment now exceeds $2 trillion in value. As it has grown, so to have worries that it conceals significant risks to the global financial system. …
“That clinking, clanking sound Can make the world go ‘round” After more than 30 years of operating at the intersection of technology and financial services, I’ve come to realize that what fintech really needs isn’t AI …
Part one of our interview with Professor of Economics Teresa Ghilarducci, on the topic of her new book “Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy,” is here. Q. Teresa, I’d like to ask a few …
More than one quarter of older American workers earning higher wages — above $137,700 — have nothing but Social Security to rely on in retirement. And nearly half of all families have no retirement savings at …
Partech is a global investment firm headquartered in Paris, with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, and San Francisco, and about 70 employees. It was founded in 1982 in San Francisco as a corporate venture arm for the …
There are now nearly 200 active fintech (insurtech, regtech, etc.) startups in the Greater Boston ecosystem, the geography of which runs in my view approximately from Portland in the north to Providence in the south, and …
In chronological order. A subjective list to be sure. Only includes movies I’ve seen. Which films would you add? It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) On Prime Video, and at this time of year in heavy rotation lots …
I have been an enthusiast participant in fintech conferences, usually as an attendee but occasionally as a presenter, exhibitor, promoter, or programmer, for nearly 25 years. These events have taken me to seven U.S. states and …
I’ve learned via Google that, spiritually speaking, the number 1414 represents the power of positive thinking and the importance of having faith in oneself. But we’re here because in 1414 England’s King Henry V passed the Safe Conducts …