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Republic Breaks The Venture Capital Mold With Equity Crowdfunding
Monday, October 16, 2017 - 11:30am | 330The 2017 Benzinga Fintech Summit was a gathering of leaders from every fintech vertical displaying the next generation of fintech innovation. In this new article series, we’ll be sharing insights and new products from the inaugural BZ Summit. The Company: Launched just over a year ago,...
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Collective2 Will Help You Find Alpha—For A Price
Friday, October 13, 2017 - 1:33pm | 296The 2017 Benzinga Fintech Summit was a gathering of leaders from every fintech vertical displaying the next generation of fintech innovation. In this new article series, we’ll be sharing insights and new products from the inaugural BZ Summit. The Company: Collective2 is an online platform...
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Quants Automates Access To Smart Beta For Investors
Friday, October 13, 2017 - 1:29pm | 287The 2017 Benzinga Fintech Summit was a gathering of leaders from every fintech vertical displaying the next generation of fintech innovation. In this new article series, we’ll be sharing insights and new products from the inaugural BZ Summit. The Company: Quants is a portfolio solutions...
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Suretly Lets You Swipe Right To Lend
Friday, October 13, 2017 - 1:17pm | 316The 2017 Benzinga Fintech Summit was a gathering of leaders from every fintech vertical displaying the next generation of fintech innovation. In this new article series, we’ll be sharing insights and new products from the inaugural BZ Summit. The Company: Suretly offers a platform for...
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SizeUp Is Personalizing Small Business Analytics
Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 1:15pm | 340The 2017 Benzinga Fintech Summit was a gathering of leaders from every fintech vertical displaying the next generation of fintech innovation. In this new article series, we’ll be sharing insights and new products from the inaugural BZ Summit. The Company: Sizeup exists to provide the small...
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ORATS Cleans Up Options Data So You Don't Have To
Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 1:01pm | 277The 2017 Benzinga Fintech Summit was a gathering of leaders from every fintech vertical displaying the next generation of fintech innovation. In this new article series, we’ll be sharing insights and new products from the inaugural BZ Summit. The Company ORATS stands for Options Research...
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RealtyShares Gives Investors Access To Real Estate With Just A Few Clicks
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 6:03pm | 734The Benzinga Fintech Summit is an event for those interested in finance, entrepreneurship, capital markets, deal-making, networking and accelerating their business. It's a chance to interact with and learn from founders, C-Suite institutional executives, leaders of the biggest and hottest...
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Inferess Builds A 'Global Economic Map' Using Big Data—And Sells It To Funds
Wednesday, August 30, 2017 - 12:31pm | 592The Benzinga Fintech Summit is an event for those interested in finance, entrepreneurship, capital markets, deal-making, networking and accelerating their business. It's a chance to interact with and learn from founders, C-Suite institutional executives, leaders of the biggest and hottest...
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Betterment Raises $70 Million At $800 Million Valuation
Friday, July 21, 2017 - 1:55pm | 319Betterment, an online financial advising platform, is now valued at $800 million based on its latest round of financing. Betterment secured $70 million in funding at a time when the company's business is booming. The last time the company raised money was in early 2016 when it was valued at $...
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10 Best Places To Work In IT: Quicken Loans Stays At The Top
Monday, June 12, 2017 - 3:03pm | 527Quicken Loans was ranked as the nation's best place to work in IT for the fifth straight year. In fact, by taking home top ranks in IDG's Computerworld Best Places to Work, the Detroit-based company can boast being the top IT employer for the eighth time overall. Computerworld ranks the 100...
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The Latest In The State-Fed Fintech Regulation Spat
Friday, April 28, 2017 - 12:27pm | 376The Conference of State Bank Supervisors is taking the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of Currency to court, challenging the OCC’s authority to grant charters to financial technology, or “fintech,” companies. The CSBS argues financial technology companies do not accept deposits and...
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You Might Not Want To Get Too Attached To The Term 'Fintech'
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 1:05pm | 396You can find “fintech” in nobody’s thesaurus, and there’s a good chance the word won’t be around when the financial services sector catches up to the rest of the world’s technology. What's In A Name? “Fintech becomes irrelevant in a couple of years,”...
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Jack Ma Goes After Roboadvisors In China
Monday, April 10, 2017 - 1:24pm | 408Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA), is looking to bring the growing trend of roboadvisors to Chinese consumers. Yunfeng Financial Group, a financial services company that is backed by Ma, created a roboadvisor application that can manage wealth for Chinese...
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Worldcore: One-Stop-Shop Fintech Offers Worldwide Payment Solutions
Monday, April 3, 2017 - 2:02pm | 780It'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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Orchard Platform: Asia Is 'Light Years' Ahead In Innovation
Friday, March 31, 2017 - 11:07am | 474The financial services and technology sectors in the Asian online lending space are developing at a "staggering pace and scale," according to an Orchard Platform overview of the sector. Matt Burton — the co-founder of the technology and data provider for the online lending space...