Without agents as partners, direct-to-consumer insurtechs aren’t able to offer customers the professional and customized insights required to meet their coverage needs. ( jozefmicic/Adobe Stock) Direct-to-consumer [… Read more ]

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex and Grace are back to [… Read more ]

Betsy Cohen, a lawyer, financier and entrepreneur, has been smashing glass ceilings since Richard Nixon was president—and she’s not slowing down. In the summer of [… Read more ]

Financial technology [fintech], insurance technology [insurtech] and education technology [edtech] are disrupting mental healthcare. There are now several startups and platforms that are extending mental [… Read more ]

Greetings from Austin, Texas, where the temps have been over 100 degrees for days now and we’re trying hard just not to melt. The global [… Read more ]

The FinTech industry is one of the most dynamic in the entire UK economy. Thanks to its success in delivering the smart, intuitive tools and [… Read more ]

The Briefing For the 12th year in a row, Hong Kong is the world’s least affordable housing market, according to Demographia’s ranking of 92 cities in select [… Read more ]

Gamification has been accepted as a highly effective learning and engagement tool. It has been deployed in educational and training settings worldwide. But is that [… Read more ]

Remittances, or the process of sending money back home, have been on the radar of traditional financial institutions for years, yet they have only recently captured [… Read more ]

Two fintech giants are partnering up. Affirm is making its buy now, pay later technology available to businesses that use Stripe’s payments tech. This means [… Read more ]

Customers – personal and professional – need help to make more sustainable choices. Sharing payment data could be key to reducing emissions French carbon tracker [… Read more ]

Venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator are sounding the alarm for startup companies that the days of raising capital easily are over. [… Read more ]

What goes up, must come down (fintech edition) The higher you climb, the harder you fall — and that spells trouble across the board for [… Read more ]

The era of digital revolution propelled by the pandemic has left almost every industry and sector grappling with waves of transformation. The ways in which [… Read more ]