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FinTech

Is Prosper prospering? The potential shift of banking into a platform business

Posted on February 26, 2017 by pvuong

Inherently risky or opportunities for value creation and capturing?

Transferwise: Disruptive money transfer

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Tomo Nakagawa

A platform of borderless money transfer with significant cost benefit.

Winner: Venmo – the next generation checking account

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Carolin_Oldenbuettel

Venmo, the PayPal-owned peer-to-peer payments app, is one of the best-known and largest disruptive fintech companies.

Wealthfront and the Future of Robo Advisors

Posted on November 22, 2015 by hbs2016

Wealthfront has disrupted the financial advisory industry by using analytics and algorithms to automate investment decisions. Will it be able to sustain its success?

Motif Investing: Democratizing investment selection for retail investors

Posted on October 24, 2015 by QC

The traditional model of personal investing looks like this: individuals like you and me either sign up for a brokerage account, select investments and construct our own portfolios (“the DIY approach”) or hire a financial advisor that makes investment suggestions […]

Venmo: Building direct network effects and then…nothing happened?

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Allen Yang

Venmo has grown with strong direct network effects, but has been unable to crack the indirect network effects.

Wealthfront: Winning at Wealth Management

Posted on September 13, 2015 by Julie

The wealth management industry is stodgy, slow to adopt new technology, highly profitable, and ripe for disruption as Wealthfront is doing just that.

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