Fintech Struts Down Main Street
For the first many years of fintech’s existence, even most of the “democratized” companies and services have still felt elite. That dynamic is evolving.
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Esusu Becomes a Unicorn
Esusu, a company that digitizes apartment rental payments and helps renters build credit history, announced a Series B round that values the company at more than a billion dollars. To mark the occasion, here is...
The Bitcoin Recession
A financial microclimate that did not exist even two years ago and is strongly dependent on the trading price of Bitcoin has lost tens, probably hundreds, of billions of dollars in value in a matter...
Fintech Reinvents Startup Funding
In this interview, Craig J. Lewis of Gig Wage and Blair Silverberg of Hum Capital discuss how fintech is changing the way that startups are funded.
Join our Techonomy Roundtable on The Death (and Future) of Venture Capital
On November 18, join Techonomy and the Observer in an enlightening, video roundtable discussion with VC industry experts.
Exclusive FIN Interview With Square Cofounder Jim McKelvey
FIN editor James Ledbetter sat down with Square cofounder Jim McKelvey (in-person!) at our recent Accelerate Finance event. Here's what he had to say.
Does the SEC Have a “Crypto Mom” Problem?
Commissioner Hester Peirce has been unusually vocal in expressing her opinion that the SEC has failed to articulate clear and consistent rules. But simply saying “there ought to be rules” isn’t adequate in the long...
Will Circle Become a Full-Fledged Bank?
Circle's USDC is a huge "stablecoin." It hopes to make USDC essentially a regulated central bank digital currency. But questions are many, including on Circle's bungled Poloniex deal.
The US Senate’s Sneaky Crypto Move
If you find it strange that the infrastructure bill snaking its way through Capitol Hill might fundamentally change how cryptocurrency transactions take place in the United States, you’re not alone.
