[podcast] Susquehanna Growth Equities’ Amir Goldman on investing in fintech
This episode is another in an ongoing series on this show where we talk to some of the leading investors in the financial technology space. This week’s guest Amir Goldman of Susquehanna Growth Equity...
View Article[podcast] Investing in growth-stage fintech with Long Ridge’s Kevin Bhatt
Long Ridge’s Kevin Bhatt This episode is another in an ongoing series on this show where we talk to some of the leading investors in the financial technology space. This week’s guest provides an...
View Article[podcast] How to build a bank with no branches with Card.com’s Ben Katz
Wall Street has been shedding Main Street bank branches of late and it doesn’t appear like it’s letting up any time soon. Card.com’s Ben Katz As more financial transactions occur over the web, the...
View Article[podcast] Thiel Capital’s Phin Upham on investing in tomorrow’s financial giants
We’ve been conducting a bit of a series here on the podcast. We’ve been talking to some of the top fintech investors around. Guys like Caribou Honig of QED, Charles Moldow of Foundation Capital. Last...
View Article[podcast] Canaan Partners’ Dan Ciporin on investing in marketplace lending
We’ve explored various themes on investing in financial technology on this show. We’ve interviewed Caribou Honig at QED Investors. We’ve also spoken to to Foundation Capital’s Charles Moldow. Dan...
View Article[podcast] Jan Bellens on fintech trends in Asia and emerging markets
Jan Bellens is banking and capital markets leader for EY in emerging markets and Asia Pacific. Jan Bellens, EY He’s tasked with a role at his firm that is part analyst, business consultant, and trend...
View ArticleMarketplace lending meets retirement investing with Income&
Open any news site and you’ll read how the Marketplace Lending sector is ramping. US companies like Lending Club and Prosper are underwriting billions of dollars of loans every month now. But when you...
View Article[podcast] Creating the ultimate algorithm: How Numerai gets experts to build...
We’ve spent the past couple of weeks of this show talking to leading early-stage investors in financial technologies — guys like Charles Moldow of Foundation Capital and Caribou Honig of QED Investors....
View Article[podcast] Why Foundation Capital’s Charles Moldow invests in B2C fintech...
Charles Moldow, Foundation Capital Last week, we had Caribou Honig of QED Investors on the podcast and I said that his portfolio is one of the strongest in fintech. If I had to name the top investors...
View Article[podcast] QED Investors’ Caribou Honig on investing in today’s early stage...
Our guest for this episode is Caribou Honig, a founding partner of QED Investors. QED has quietly become one of the top investors in the financial technology space — their investment portfolio includes...
View Article[podcast] Uberization of finance? Ron Shevlin on the bank of the future
Ron Shevlin, Cornerstone Advisors If you listen to NPR, you’ll sometimes hear a recording artist, someone like Lyle Lovett, referred to as “an artist’s artist”. Meaning, an artist that other people of...
View Article[podcast] How today’s fund managers connect with interested investors — with...
Imagine a world where regulation and compliance didn’t rule financial services with an iron fist. Ok, that’s never going to happen but certainly it’s fair to hope for an environment that makes it...
View Article[podcast] The top 10 fintech stories of 2015
2015 was in many ways a watershed year for fintech. According to Pitchbook, it looks like 2015 will finish with close to $8 billion worth of venture capital invested in financial technology startups....
View Article[podcast] Where Blue Elephant’s Brian Weinstein is finding opportunity...
Blue Elephant Capital’s Brian Weinstein What would it take to get a managing director, managing a hundred billion dollars of fixed income assets at BlackRock, to jump ship to a start up asset manager?...
View Article[podcast] Funding Circle’s Sam Hodges on scaling growth by navigating globally
Online lending is enjoying its moment. New platforms are launching monthly and raising hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and equity in a race to redefine how we borrow and from whom. And it’s not...
View Article[podcast] Why a 164 year old payments giant partnered with the hottest social...
One of the themes we’re tracking here at Tradestreaming is the confluence of incumbent financial institutions with new technologies, platforms, and tools. When you look at some of the largest and...
View Article[podcast] Stephane Dubois of Xignite on providing stock market data to...
Last week’s episode featured Vince Passione from LendKey — an innovative company turning offline lenders into online ones. In the rush to digital, we’re seeing pureplay fintech startups attempting...
View ArticleSimply invest like a hedge fund — with Mike Kane
In the world of investing, there’s a lot of excitement around roboadvisors. These automated and cheap investment platforms, like Wealthfront and Betterment, are attracting billions of dollars. But,...
View ArticleInvest in franchises — with ApplePie Capital’s Denise Thomas
Don’t know about you, but owning or investing in a franchise business has always captivated me. Something about local ownership, the brand, a business in a box. But minimum investments were typically...
View ArticleInvest In Small Businesses With An Ecommerce Twist — Kickfurther’s Sean De...
Many people have grown tired of passive investing. Sure, the data show that the more remove the human elements — our evolutionary biases — the better we perform in the stock market. But many investors...
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