FILED UNDER: Accelerators, FinTech

Interview with Claire Cockerton, CEO of Innovate Finance

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Innovate Finance is the brand new industry body for the FinTech community in the UK. It is member-driven and aims to accelerate the UK’s position in global financial services by directly supporting the next era of technology-led financial services innovators. … READ MORE

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FILED UNDER: Banking, FinTech, Startups

Q&A with Dan O’Malley of Eastern Labs

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I was excited to read that Eastern Bank hired the team behind PerkStreet and created Eastern Labs, with the objective of leveraging the bank’s resources and data to build new financial service technologies, and of digitizing the bank. Dan O’Malley, … READ MORE

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FILED UNDER: Alternative Lending, Banking, FinTech

Q&A with Alex Tonelli of Funding Circle USA

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Funding Circle is a crowdlending platform that lets individuals and institutions loan money to small businesses. Founded in the UK in 2010, the firm has about 70,000 registered lenders who have lent more than £223,000,000. Last October, Funding Circle raised … READ MORE

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FILED UNDER: Thoughts & Ramblings

Your Own Cooking Isn’t All You Want To Eat

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In 1998, at a technology conference in New York, John (Launny) Steffens, vice chairman of what was then Merrill Lynch & Company, told his audience, ”The do-it-yourself model of investing, centered on Internet trading, should be regarded as a serious … READ MORE

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