UIDAI: Building the AADHAR for Digital India
Streamlining lives of 1.3 Billion people by by building the world's largest electronic database in the worlds most promising emerging economy
FinTech
The future of money-transferring
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Lending Club: Can technology fundamentally disrupt how we invest and borrow?
Banking has been around for 700+ years, and is the third most profitable sector in the economy. Financial intermediaries usually rely heavily on physical assesses and people. Is there a leaner way to do this? Lending Club says yes. The market's view is mixed. Read ahead to explore this topic.
Stripe Emerges from Global E-Commerce and Mobile Boom
Stripe, a fintech startup, is using digital technology to transform the e-commerce and mobile payment processing industry, but will it be able to outcompete industry behemoths like PayPal?
East Africa is disrupted as Israeli Startup, nFrnds, is innovating for those who really need it.
Social enterprise or clever business? Perhaps both! Mobile innovation has left many behind, but for nFrnds this has not gone unnoticed!
From Facebook to finance: how kountable uses social media data to generate credit scores
A FinTech develops an innovative approach to credit decision-making in developing economies.
The Limits of FinTech Disruption
Anyone can make a loan… the hard part is getting paid back. OneMain is exploring the intersection of technology with consumer finance
Alibaba is disrupting a traditional Financial Services industry in China.
Alibaba’s financial service arm, called Ant Financial offers a range of financial services, such as payment, micro-loans, a digital bank, wealth management and others, disrupting traditional financial services industry in China.
MCX and CurrentC: How to Become the Laughingstock of the Mobile Payments Industry
Conceived in 2012 to save retailers $15 billion in annual payment card processing fees, CurrentC is still not widely available, largely due to a disconnect between MCX’s business and operating models.
LendingClub
LendingClub uses technology that banks don't have, to offer what they can't.