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Why Saving Main Street Will Take More Than Just More Money
Why Saving Main Street Will Take More Than Just More Money
June 22, 2020  |  SMBs

The nonprofit Opportunity Fund — which makes loans to small businesses owned by low- and moderate-income immigrants, women and other underserved clientele — started 2020...

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Dr. Annamaria Lusardi: FinTech Is Great, But No Substitute For Teaching Kids Financial Literacy
Dr. Annamaria Lusardi: FinTech Is Great, But No Substitute For Teaching Kids Financial Literacy
June 15, 2020  |  Financial Inclusion

Everyone in a modern society needs to know how to read, so America spends an awful lot of time, treasure and talent developing literacy curricula...

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Mastercard’s New President Of Europe On EU’s Digital Payments Transformation
Mastercard’s New President Of Europe On EU’s Digital Payments Transformation
June 08, 2020  |  Digital Payments

The pandemic has introduced new variables into innovations, payments and commerce — setting up headwinds in some cases as businesses shutter, and tailwinds as consumers...

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Visa’s Kevin Phalen: Moving B2B Payments From Acceleration To Execution
Visa’s Kevin Phalen: Moving B2B Payments From Acceleration To Execution
June 01, 2020  |  VISA

The global pandemic has created public health and economic uncertainty on a scale not seen in a generation. It has also motivated the great digital...

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What Banking’s ‘Wave Three’ Might Look Like
What Banking’s ‘Wave Three’ Might Look Like
May 26, 2020  |  Digital-First Banking

There is a long-running debate in the world of traditional banking when it comes to how to consider the recent rise of challenger banks. There...

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Green Dot’s Dan Henry And Daniel Eckert On Building A Bank for The Mass Market
Green Dot’s Dan Henry And Daniel Eckert On Building A Bank for The Mass Market
May 18, 2020  |  Banking

Many firms have been navigating a lot of change of late given the small matter of the international health crisis, but even by recent standards,...

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HomeLight CEO: Using Tech To Transform Real Estate Sales In The Age Of Social Distancing
HomeLight CEO: Using Tech To Transform Real Estate Sales In The Age Of Social Distancing
May 11, 2020  |  Real Estate

In the best of the times, homebuying is a fraught process – stressful, time-consuming and marked by friction across several steps of a months-long process. There’s...

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Why Data-Backed Innovation Is The Medicine Healthcare Needs
Why Data-Backed Innovation Is The Medicine Healthcare Needs
May 04, 2020  |  Healthcare

Among the more unnerving surprises of the coronavirus pandemic for most people was learning just how vulnerable and thinly stretched some areas of our healthcare...

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Figure’s Mike Cagney: Stimulus Snafus Show It’s Time For Digital Dollars – And Blockchain
Figure’s Mike Cagney: Stimulus Snafus Show It’s Time For Digital Dollars – And Blockchain
April 27, 2020  |  Blockchain

Nothing brings money to top of mind like tax season — and tax refunds and stimulus payments, doled out in the wake of a pandemic...

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