fintech judges

Your local ATM could recognize your face within five years. Your taxes could be prepared by a robo-accountant. Your lawyer might be reduced to an algorithm fully versed in legal precedent. Your ear canal is a better form of identification than a fingerprint, let alone a driver’s license, and...

So what if investment in the hot financial tech movement dropped $2 billion in each of the past two years? Pardon Trading Ticket, Inc. co-founder Nathan Richardson if he doesn’t lose his cool. He risked his life doing humanitarian work in war zones, even got captured once, and was forced out...

He plays drums and sings in a pair of Wall Street rock bands, orders a shot of Blanco tequila with his beer, owns a couple bars in Manhattan because running pubs was something he once thought might make a great living. He also manages a hedge fund that puts vast fortunes in play in the most...