This is the second half of our interview with Kristen Tyrell, co-founder and CEO of Catch, which is building a portable benefits platform for workers who don’t receive their benefits from an employer. (Find the first half here.) Q. Can you measure … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]BNP Paribas Cardif is the insurance subsidiary of Paris-based banking giant BNP Paribas. BNP Paribas Cardif provides both savings and protection products, is a world leader in both bancassurance partnerships and credit insurance, serves more than 100 million policyowners in 35 … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]The Paris Fintech Forum, which bills itself as the largest digital finance event ever organized in France, took place on January 28th in the Pierre Mendes France conference center at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. The event featured … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 2 ]Publicly-traded Deutsche Boerse Group (“DBG”), with headquarters in Frankfurt, is a leading global operators of exchanges, including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Its services include equities and derivatives trading, clearing and settlement of orders, custody of securities, and the provision of … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]Personal Capital is in the vanguard of a new wave of startups seeking to disrupt the $10T wealth management industry. Others in this space include Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Jemstep, LearnVest, SigFig and Wealthfront. Each is leveraging technology to deliver effective, low-cost, … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 2 ]Jeff Bussgang is General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage VC firm with offices in Boston and New York. Jeff is currently a board member at FinTech startups Plastiq and SimpleTuition, as well as at AdTech firm DataXu. He … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]“If no one seems to understand, start your own revolution and cut out the middleman.”
“I’m not even sure what I want, but that’s not the point – it’s that I want it now.”
“Whenever the old gives way to the new, everybody with vested interests in the old starts crying that the world will stop. There aren’t many people with vested interests in the new.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
A hearty congratulations to all the PR people out there working for VC firms. Your hard work has been noticed. https://bit.ly/2ROMZv4
Citi, BofA to create an independent, multi-dealer fixed-income trading platform focusing first on the CLO and syndicated loan market: https://j.mp/3sePwxY #fintech
“Postal banking is an elegant solution that would provide the USPS upwards of $9 billion a year in revenue and would address the high cost of being poor in America,” says @gillibrandny. https://j.mp/3mFqLtB #fintechtotherescue
Nice profile of @roxannevarza, head of Paris-based @joinstationf (the world's largest startup campus), in this month's @FranceAmerique: https://j.mp/3fWNbFj (available en français and in english)
