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Can Blockchain Help Banking-as-a-Service Leap From Commodity to Capital Access On-Ramp?
Digital-First Banking // September 26, 2022

In the bid to change financial services, to broaden financial inclusion, the promise of challenger banks was that they’d upend the way financial products could be designed and could come to market. But the challengers have some challenges of their own, as Mike Cagney, CEO...

Figure Technologies Raises $103M To Continue Blockchain-Based Lending
Investments // December 05, 2019

Blockchain lending firm Figure Technologies announced that it has closed a $103 million series C funding round led by Morgan Creek Digital. MUFG Innovation Partners Co., as well as other new and existing investors, also participated in the round, which brings Figure’s total amount raised...

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Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year Reflect Growing Impact of AI

November 28, 2023
The very phrase artificial intelligence (AI) itself promises two things: intelligence and artificiality. And while it is the leverageable machine intelligence that businesses and organizations want, it is the inherent artificiality of the technical innovation’s AI productions that they have to deal with.  This, as Merriam-Webster, the dictionary publisher, reported on Monday (Nov. 27) that 2023’s most looked-up word […]

Can Blockchain Help Banking-as-a-Service Leap From Commodity to Capital Access On-Ramp?

September 26, 2022
In the bid to change financial services, to broaden financial inclusion, the promise of challenger banks was that they’d upend the way financial products could be designed and could come...

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Figure Technologies Raises $103M To Continue Blockchain-Based Lending

December 05, 2019
Blockchain lending firm Figure Technologies announced that it has closed a $103 million series C funding round led by Morgan Creek Digital. MUFG Innovation Partners Co., as well as other new and existing investors, also participated in the round, which brings Figure’s total amount raised to more than $225 million and its valuation to $1.2 […]