We were already aware of Avant’s spinoff called Amount which provides various technology solutions to banks; Amount is now raising...
According to sources Amazon is talking with banks such as JPMorgan Chase to build a checking-account-like product; while it is still early and the product may not see the light of day it shows Amazon’s interest in working with banks to expand into financial services. Source
In the age of open banking, personal information is now being shared across many different institutions; the company powering this...
Rachel Schneider discusses a new way of thinking about the financial lives of Americans; suggests that many of the models are out of date; Schneider worked with a research project called US Financial Diaries which worked with 235 families to learn about every dollar that they spent, borrowed, saved, earned, and more; through the research they understood these families on a much deeper level to understand the 'why' behind financial decisions; Schneider shares many interesting data points including income and spending spikes in the lives of Americans; highlights the opportunities for fintech companies in the US. Source
It took three years for Marcus to bring a mobile app to market which many would agree is a long...
Michael Lewis is a well known author, writing The Big Short, Moneyball and Liars Poker; Lewis is a great storyteller...
PeerStreet is one of the leaders in the real estate crowdfunding space in the US; they announced in March that...
Orchard stresses the importance of recovery rates in valuing pools of loans; blog post takes Orchard’s US unsecured consumer lending industry data and discusses what loan recoveries are, how they are calculated, how debt holders recover defaulted loan balances, and why recovery rates are so important. Source
The article aims to answer whether big banks are still interested enough in potential mortgage loan customers to repeatedly follow-up and whether marketshare has anything to do with follow-ups; author applied for home loans with nine different lenders and shares data on their follow-ups over a two week period; Quicken, Citigroup and loanDepot round out the top three for total number of follow-ups. Source
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance releases an annual report on the alternative finance in the Americas; Crowdfund Insider has...