American banks spent a century asking customers for loyalty and a decade learning to earn it back. The scoreboard finally moved: satisfaction...
The financial technology (fintech) industry is transforming the way people manage money, invest, and access financial services. Over the past decade, technological...
Inga Karulaitytė, Attorney-at-Law, Partner and Head of Banking and Finance & FinTech at ECOVIS ProventusLaw, examines the narrowing distinction between payment and...
For most of banking history, the org chart decided what customers saw: a checking department, a card department, a mortgage department, each...
Every efficiency America has gained by digitizing money now has a line item trying to claw it back. The country saves billions...
The same week a Midwestern hospital chain paid a ransom to unlock its billing system, a retiree in Florida wired her savings...
Americans did not adopt fintech once; they adopted it five separate times, and each wave picked a different doorway into their finances....
The first person in a friend group to split a dinner bill with an app performs a small act of recruitment, whether...
No bank branch ever went viral, but a payment app’s referral bonus once added more American checking relationships in a quarter than...
Somewhere between the 2008 crisis and the 2020 lockdowns, American finance quietly swapped its front door. The branch lobby became a login...
Ask a loan officer from 1996 how a small business gets credit and the answer involves a suit, a folder of statements,...
The last time most Americans stood in a bank line, gas was under three dollars. The errand did not disappear; it moved...
A teenager buying $20 of an index fund and a pension desk moving a billion dollars before lunch ride the same rails,...
Somewhere in a New Jersey data center, a computer just spent seventy microseconds deciding what your stock trade was worth. Multiply that...
Every 401(k) statement hides a small logistics miracle. The shares inside it were priced by competing exchanges, matched in microseconds, and settled...
America industrializes financial novelty the way it once industrialized everything else: noisily at first, then on a schedule. A capability debuts on...
Inside every large American financial institution there is a committee that meets quarterly to decide which futures get funded, and its agenda...
Chatbots that answer banking questions were a conference demo in 2016, a pilot program in 2019, and a budget line nobody debates...
Disruption arrived in American finance wearing every possible costume: a free stock trade, a two-minute loan, a checking account inside a rideshare...