The Obama Administration recently launched a push to boost access to basic banking services for millions of Americans who lack them. As Treasury Secretary Jack Lew noted, an inability to access high-quality, low-cost transactional services drives millions of low and middle-income individuals and families to high-fee options like check-cashing outlets. One Financial Holdings (OFH), a New York-based startup with roughly ten employees, bills itself as “a venture-backed laboratory for innovation in retail financial services,” with a focus on the financial …
Category: Mobile
The MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge recently hosted a panel on mobile payments. The mobile payments/mobile wallets space in the U.S. is still highly fragmented. Merchants want to accept any form of payment that reaches critical …