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Fintech Focus Roundup For January 30, 2021
Friday, January 29, 2021 - 8:12pm | 1497A Short Seller Joins Benzinga's 'Power Hour' To Talk GameStop. The Rest Is History. On Jan. 21, Citron Research's Andrew Left went live with Benzinga’s Luke Jacobi and Jason Raznick on the daily "Power Hour" show to discuss his opinion on GameStop Corporation. After...
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Fintech Focus For January 29, 2021
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 6:44pm | 1312Quote To Start The Day: Knowledge should be rewarded. Source: John Vitti One Big Thing In Fintech: The biggest challenge facing consumers in finance is a lack of trust; it’s tough to discern whether financial institutions are acting in the interest of customers and sharing their values. That...
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Robert Downey Jr.'s FootPrint Coalition Ventures Backs Neobank Aspiration
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 4:16pm | 592Aspiration, a Los Angeles-based neobank oriented around conscious consumerism, announced an investment Wednesday from producer, actor and investor Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition Ventures, which was launched at the World Economic Forum’s Digital Davos event. As part of the...
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Aspiration Rebuilds Investor Faith In Market With Fee-Less Transactions
Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 3:16pm | 737It's almost that time of year. The 2017 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards is a competition to showcase the companies with the most impressive technology that are paving the future in financial services and capital markets. To get you prepared for this year's awards, Benzinga will profile each...
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The Bank That Lets You 'Pay What You Want'
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 8:33am | 710In the nearly 20 years since he graduated from Harvard, Andrei Cherny has achieved much. He was the youngest White House speechwriter in history, helped form the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and authored a book about World War II. During this time, he came across a lot of financial firms,...