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Over the course of last week Benzinga’s downtown Detroit newsroom played host to entrepreneurial incubator Village Capital’s 2017 Fintech Program. The event, which lasted from June 6-9, included financial technology startups from across the U.S. covering applications and services...

The financial services industry is huge, employing nearly 200,000 people worldwide with $49 billion in total revenue, according to a June report from business intelligence firm IBISWorld. Despite its size, the industry is walled off to many — investing has high barriers to entry for most...