[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When long-time homeless advocate and serial entrepreneur Liz Powers first told people about her plan to combine her two passions and build the first online art marketplace for homeless, disabled and otherwise disadvantaged people, people continually congratulated her on founding such a noble charity. And...
Despite being worth over half-a-trillion dollars annually, remittances are an oddly invisible part of the payments ecosystem to most people — even those who otherwise know it quite well. We all might know that money may make the world go around, but what makes money...
The marijuana entrepreneurs of Colorado will not have a special bank to call their own — unless a federal judge intervenes on their side. The designated guardians of the U.S. banking system — the Federal Reserve — has declined to accept so much as a...
There are a variety of visions for what the bank of the future should be — a coffee shop, a digital destination accessible mainly from a smartphone — but for the good folks over at Number26, the bank of the future basically isn’t a bank...
There is a old joke among small business owners about the best way to secure a loan from a bank: just go in and convince a loan officer that your business absolutely does not need one. Admittedly, it is a piece of humor not...
Creating hype is easy. Silicon Valley has evolved a rather sophisticated machine to help you do so. But living up to that hype on IPO day, well, that is shaking out to be harder than expected, as the tech unicorns of the last few years...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Everyone knows the three rules for investing in real estate. Location. Location. Location. That rule is stated in a variety of ways of course — “Buy the worst house in the best address,” or “Purchase a zip code, not a home” — but the gist...
Much of the narrative written about alternative lenders is the story of a competition, with traditional lenders (banks mostly) on one side of the divide — and a wide field of online alternative lenders on the other. But to Sam Graziano, CEO of Fundation, that...
Marred by concerns about illegal uses, Australian businesses are saying no to bitcoin en masse — spurred along by a move by Aussie banks last month to close the accounts of 13 of 17 bitcoin exchanges nationally. Up until now, Australia had been one of bitcoin’s...