Washington, D.C. is both a rich city and a poor city. Filled with federal workers and contractors, the nation’s capital has a high cost of living:...
On November 14th 2017, the price of bitcoin was a little over $6,500 — a bit more than it is today at $6,300. It might be...
In the early days of online lending, the big appeal was access to funds for potential borrowers with few, if any, options for securing capital....
From the beginning, Dodd-Frank has drawn the criticism that instead of doing what it was supposed to and targeting banks that were too big to fail,...
In the early 1950s, an engineer named William Fair encountered a mathematician Earl Isaac who together decided to work out an automated credit scoring system...
Fair Square Financial entered the financial services world a few years ago with two observations about why the world needed another non-bank lender. The first being that...
Marketplace lending platforms — Lending Club, OnDeck, Prosper and the like — have inarguably and fundamentally altered the geography of the lending landscape. In the...
The financial crisis that rolled through the economic landscape a decade ago was — among many things — a financial reset button. Interest rates plummeted as the Fed held...