Tagged: financial infrastructure

February 5, 2021 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Balaji S. Srinivasan, a prominent angel investor and entrepreneur, says that Fintech is “the frontend,” while crypto is like “the backend.” Balaji, the former CTO at leading digital asset exchange Coinbase, points out that Fintech and blockchain/crypto technologies have been “built mostly in parallel over… Read More

February 5, 2021 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Garrick Hileman, Head of Research at Blockchain.com and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, says that the future “doesn’t look like Robinhood.” Hileman writes in a blog post that “disgust over GameStop’s trading shutdown” will most likely accelerate the adoption of decentralized… Read More

January 31, 2021 @ 3:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ashley Cornall, Product Manager at Fintech firm Plaid, notes that more financial platforms and services now exist than ever before to assist users with taking control of their financial wellbeing. But it might still be quite challenging for consumers to direct where their payroll funds… Read More