A recent article in Forbes shared a survey of US consumers that shed light on the traction of digital banks...
An American op-ed details how the growing fintech space poses a risk to consumers and their personal information; Dan Berger,...
There are some extremely attractive offers these days from a multitude of digital banks; it has been 10 years since...
Lawmakers have long been arguing that the regulations enacted after the financial crisis have hurt the bank's lending business; Greg Lyons, a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton law firm, tells American Banker: "It's not the kind of issue that lends itself to crisp, absolute answers, unfortunately, it's a more amorphous and an ideological view as much as anything else. There's not necessarily a right or wrong answer. It depends on what your objectives are."; in a recent survey of small businesses by the New York Fed only 8% said credit was too expensive/hard to find and 47% said there is sufficient credit in the market; the area most affected by regulations is that of borrowers with less than perfect credit, this market has been hampered by the capital ratio requirements; while certain areas of the market have felt the regulatory burden, overall businesses are able to find the credit they need; the argument will surely continue as policymakers look to ease the most stringent rules. Source
Visa and Mastercard currently rank 7th and 11th on the S&P 500; their stock prices have increased around 50% over...
Marketplace lender Argon Credit has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; its loan underwriting was centered around machine learning algorithms which it marketed as decisioning as a service; offered subprime loans from $2,000 to $35,000 with APRs ranging from 4.99% to 149%; in May 2015 it secured a $75 million debt funding investment from credit hedge fund, Princeton Alternative Funding; prior to that it had raised $5.05 million. Source
Babak Hodjat is managing a hedge fund in San Francisco run completely by artificial intelligence (AI); his firm Sentient Technologies Inc. has been building an AI system for analyzing markets and automating trading for over a decade; performance for the firm is not publicly disclosed; numerous firm's in the wealth management industry are using some form of unbiased automated trading however Sentient is one of few firms that completely uses AI technology for comprehensively managing assets. Source
Machine learning and predictive analytics have started to make a real difference in the VC world when it comes to finding investments; VC’s typically traveled a lot and met with thousands of companies to find a few investments; by using machine learning to break down troves of data, like job postings or performance in the App Store, investors can find potential gems without the same laborious effort; VC firms are investing in tools to help them refine searches and comb through thousands of companies quickly; increased computing power and cheaper ways to rent server capacity has really helped VC’s, even the small firms, use these techniques every day. Source.
Digital bank Aspiration has created a new spend & save account which is similar to a high yield checking account;...
Aspiration, the digital bank that focuses on sustainability and conscious consumerism, just raised $135mn in new capital; the round was...