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The Most Innovative Fintech Companies In 2021

For our sixth annual Fintech 50, 20 of our picks have never appeared on the list. Digital banks, crypto and blockchain startups and payments companies made a particularly strong showing.

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Sep 4, 2021

They’re Not Smart And They’re Not Contracts

I’m not clever enough to know whether defi will be built on Ethereum 2.0 or Solano, but I am smart enough to know that it will be built. It therefore makes sense for financial services organisations to start working on their own strategies for exploiting the new markets that will emerge.
Sep 1, 2021

The Great Data Debate: A Plaid Point Of View

Early this month Plaid announced a $425 million series D raise that included J.P. Morgan and American Express. In this edition of the Great Data Debate, we will explore how Plaid views the financial data ecosystem, their role in it, and why they seem to be friendlier with banks these days.
Aug 27, 2021

Scrooge McData

We should be taking on the data misers and forcing them to share their hoards to the benefit of competition and the economy as whole. We already know what to do! Open banking was a good place to begin the attack on data hoarding but the fintech sector's demands should be maximal: open everything!
Aug 26, 2021

Why Investors Should Consider Bitcoin As Portfolio Insurance

As the power brokers at the Federal Reserve prepare for their annual Jackson Hole symposium the expectation is of a Jerome Powell speech geared towards economic recovery. It is unlikely that Powell will mention bitcoin or the recent 50-year anniversary of Nixon’s suspension of the gold standard.