In this episode of Fintech Unfiltered, we sit down with Stephen Corliss, CEO of the social investment startup Huddl. Corliss climbed to senior management positions at big financial firms like UBS and Blackrock before pivoting into the startup world. Bank Innovation talked to Corliss about the transition and what he brings to the table coming from big finance.  ..read more

The key benefit of using programming language Scala to build a digital platform is a feature called Type Safety, which allows for better and faster testing because it allows detecting "errors while writing the code," before running it, according to Jason Brown, CEO and co-founder of fintech Tally. In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered podcast, Brown explained that Scala is an important, but underrated, layer to develop a cloud-based platform for financial services because of its ability to allow for "faster and better," testing, efficient code compiling and scalability. This "modern pro ..read more

In the five years since payments company PayPal acquired Braintree, a comprehensive payment platform, it has seen a 54% YOY growth, according to Juan Benitez, general manager at Braintree. In 2019, Braintree wants to maintain that momentum but will also be undertaking three key innovation initiatives. In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, Benitez explains those three areas of focus and much more ..read more

In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, Jeremy Balkin, the head of innovation at HSBC Bank USA talks to Bank Innovation about HSBC’s lofty innovation strategy for 2018, including everything from system upgrades to installing a real robot in the bank branch. Listen to Balkin talk about all this as well as HSBC’s other innovation milestones in 2018, what’s on the roadmap for 2019 as well as what the future of banking will look like, in his opinion ..read more

JPMorgan Chase leads the U.S. in mobile banking with 32 million mobile banking users, the most for any U.S. bank. So why build Finn, an entirely new digital bank? Melissa Feldsher, managing director at JPMorgan Chase and head of Finn, discusses why (and how) the new bank was built, in this episode of Fintech Unfiltered ..read more

In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered, N26 USA CEO Nicolas Kopp talks about what goes into setting up a challenger bank in the U.S., why he thinks the U.S. market is ready for a mobile-first bank and why N26 USA decided against a banking license in the U.S.A., the opposite decision it made in Europe ..read more

Payment platform Dwolla's head of strategic projects, Jordan Lampe, talks about realtime payments in this episode of Fintech Unfiltered podcast. Lampe explains how banks can use this transactional data to tailor exiting products and services, but also create new ones based on the realtime information exchange taking place during the transaction ..read more

This month's edition of INV Unfiltered features fintech expert Chris Skinner, who is speaking about the global impact of Chinese digital payment companies like Alipay ..read more

Secil Watson, executive vice president and head of wholesale internet solutions at Wells Fargo, talks about the bank's API strategy, which allows Wells Fargo to serve customers in environments outside the bank walls. Opened in 2016, Wells's API gateway allows customers and partners to access bank services and data, within strictly secure parameters, naturally. This allows both Wells Fargo to offer additional services, as well as serve customers that want to access their accounts from within third-party solutions ..read more

Many banks say, "We're really a technology company," but Green Dot is an actual tech company that bought a bank, and its banking-as-a-service philosophy proves it. On this podcast, Green Dot Chief Revenue Officer Brett Narlinger says his bank is building solutions to be embedded in apps that don't even exist yet. And Green Dot is not worried about being a "dumb pipe" -- Narlinger said the bank doesn't insist on its brand being in the forefront of all the services it provides. Green Dot has several high-profile partnerships, such as GoBank account for Uber drivers with realtime payouts, and the ..read more