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The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. Generation Z, the generational name given to people born after the mid-1990s, is coming of age. The oldest members of the cohort are...

The question surrounding how fintechs will scale their businesses is a topic of the past. Fintech companies have established themselves as innovators in the space, from the likes of Plaid to Robinhood, these multi-billion dollar companies are among the many that are changing the way we see finance...

As digital lending continues to rise, one can only be left to wonder how it got this way? For a long time, the process of obtaining a loan was long, arduous, and downright anxiety-ridden. Living in the digital age gives our constant existence a sense of urgency, of needing to adapt or move on to...

Ask enough people what the biggest trend in fintech is, and eventually you’ll start to hear a few repeated phrases. One-stop-shop. Big tech. Integration. Platform-as-a-Service. Generic as those buzzwords may be, they also hint at something that’s happening within the financial services...

On April 18, 2013, a new company was created that completely upended the business model of trading commissions on Wall Street.  For the next five and a half years, Robinhood and a bevy of other free trading apps that soon followed took aim at the retail brokerage industry, reaching valuations...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. The proliferation of tech-enabled financial services has led to an explosion of offerings for consumers looking to get their financial...

A constant movement toward partnerships is always present in financial services. But with companies all over the space wanting to add new kinds of financial services to their platforms, it’s creating a challenging problem. “It’s hard to do that at scale, considering how fractured...

If you’ve googled a personal finance question in the last nine years, you’ve probably come across The Penny Hoarder. Founded in 2010 by Kyle Taylor as an outlet to talk about money, the site has grown into one of the most successful online personal finance resources, with 12-17 million...

Even Financial, a fintech company that acts as a recommendation provider for personal finance websites, announced a $25.5 million funding round on Wednesday. The round was co-led by Citi Ventures, the venture arm of Citigroup (NYSE: C), and MassMutual Ventures. LendingClub (NYSE: LC) also...

Even Financial is a content partner of Benzinga. This post did not go through the Benzinga Newsdesk. Although fintech firms like Prosper and Robinhood are often credited with making financial services more accessible to a wider array of customers, there is another critical player driving the...

Although fintech has generated massive amounts of investor and private equity attention since its rise to prominence over the past decade, it’s really the less sexy subfield of regtech that’s ensuring financial technology’s continued ascendency. Regtech, which encompasses...

This story is the third in a multipart series by Benzinga on the state of the fintech sector in 2018. As the fourth quarter kicks off, Benzinga is taking a look back at some of the fintech stories we've covered in the last nine months. They include continued dealmaking between major...

As reported Tuesday this week, fintech startup Even Financial announced raising $18.8 million in Series A seed funding, a portion of which came from investment bank Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS). Even Financial, whose flagship application program interface (API) collects and curates financial service...

Even Financial, a fintech company that acts as a recommendation provider for personal finance websites, announced an $18.8 million Series A funding round on Tuesday. This brings the company’s total funding to $25 million since its launch in 2015. The Series A round was led by GreatPoint...