Investment

The online lender's recent completion of a $700 million securitization provided Jonathan Ebinger at BlueRun Ventures an opportunity to reflect on what he has learned about the power of alternative data.

The startup now has five bank partners and equity financing from four investment entities.

A Cleveland startup’s play in the crowded and noisy P2P market is to nudge the transaction as close to digital version of paper money as possible — without Venmo’s social tools or Zelle’s email model.

Cryptocurrencies will come and go but blockchain will flourish, because it has game-changing use cases that will fundamentally improve the way financial transactions get done, according to Vinay Pai, senior vice president of engineering at Bill.com.

The San Francisco fintech, which uses artificial intelligence to make consumer credit decisions, has raised an additional $50 million. It also announced new partnerships with lenders and plans for a credit card.

Many U.S. banks, especially in Florida, are struggling to comply with U.S. sanctions against the Maduro regime. Some argue artificial intelligence can make it easier to distinguish between legitimate payments and illicit transactions.

Because various aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation were made public two years before they became official law, European lawmakers naturally felt it gave companies plenty of time to get data security compliance in place. But it appears most companies either lost track of time or haven't solved the compliance puzzle yet.

Crooks are going after automated tax communications, text and streaming video. Here's what payment companies should do to educate their consumers, according to Robert Fodor, chief data scientist and vice president of fraud for Interac.

As bankers' skepticism about blockchain deepens, crypto firms should demonstrate how the technology can help financial companies, such as by extending access to the underbanked, says Hinkes, a prominent advocate of blockchain.

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