via Finovate blog When Upgrade set out to create a new banking experience in 2017,

via CNBC Chime, the biggest U.S. digital bank start-up, is piloting a way for its users to

via TechCrunch The Los Angeles-based digital challenger bank, HMBradley, opened its virtual doors to the public

via Forbes In the banking industry, there’s a constant push-pull relationship between markets and regulators,

via TechCrunch US challenger bank is planning to launch its product next year and reward people for

via TechCrunch European fintech startup N26 is now accepting customers in the U.S. The company

via Forbes  Varo Money Inc. may be on its way to becoming the first full-service

via Tearsheet European challenger banks are going global. Revolut and N26 are set on acquiring local

BusinessInsider: In 2013, Zappos began transitioning to “Holacracy,” an alternative management system that replaces a

Bloomberg: Square, the mobile-payments company founded and led by Jack Dorsey, the interim CEO of

FastCompany: If you’re a young, female creative type, Etsy is the place to be: In

VentureBeat: PayPal started trading on the Nasdaq this morning at $41.46 per share. As an independently traded company,

BusinessInsider: Our 2015 Silicon Valley 100 list highlights the coolest people and companies in Silicon Valley

TechCrunch: What if you could get rid of your driver’s license? We’re not there yet,

WSJ: Since it opened its website in July 1995, Amazon.com Inc. has grown from a seller

TechCrunch: Affirm, the lending startup co-founded by Max Levchin, is breaking into student loans for coding,

VentureBeat: Startup ZestFinance today announced Basix, a new program for giving loans online to people

TechCrunch: Realty Mogul, a startup that connects investors with real estate projects, announced today that

TechCrunch: Betterment is billed as a smarter way to invest money. But as a separate

Wired: In 2009, a man named Duncan Chege opened up a modest Internet cafe –

TechCrunch: As crowdfunding sites like Tilt and GoFundMe and lending site Funding Circle raise large

TECHCRUNCH: As Apple continues to build out Apple Pay for transactions in retail stores, one

WSJ: America’s startup-investing frenzy has reached the shopping mall. On the prowl for retail innovation,

The New York Times: New York State’s top financial regulator has granted the first license to

TECHINASIA: Meeting Capital Match co-founders Pawel Kuznicki and Kevin Lim, it feels like they are well on