Georgetown Financial Technology Newsletter

FinTech Enroute: Old Guard Interest in FinTech Ventures, Philadelphia’s Cash Crusade, and more

Sela Labs and The Creation of Credit Markets in Developing Economies

Fintech Enroute: This Week’s Industry News and Analysis

Fintech Enroute: This Week’s Industry News

Fintech Shutdown

The consequences of the 3-week government shutdown is causing anxieties not just for federal employees or on Wall Street, but also for tech firms across the country. The immediate losers here are companies gearing…

Fintech Enroute: This Week’s Industry News

Celebrities Slammed With SEC Fines for ICO Promotion

The SEC’s existential crisis regarding ICOs and its struggle to curb fraudulent activity related to token offerings has recently claimed two unexpected victims: Floyd Mayweather…

Fintech Enroute: This Week’s Industry News

Global Finclusion: M-Pesa’s Deal with Western Union

Fintech’s favorite buzzword “finclusion” has been put to the test this week in Kenya, where M-Pesa, the country’s incredibly successful mobile money transferring and…

Bloq and The Metronome Project: Bringing Longevity and Cross-Chain Interoperability to the Blockchain Ecosystem

Fintech Enroute: This week’s industry news

Heavy Air Drop: Blockchain offers $125 million to the public for free.

Startup and cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain is offering an air drop of $125 million worth of their proprietary token Stellar Lumens (XLM). Since the…

Company Spotlight: Robinhood

By Andrew Siegelin

One of the fastest growing fintech startups is Robinhood, a for-profit organization providing an educational walkthrough of the stock market as well as providing a database for investments and portfolios.

Farm to Fork: Blockchain in the Food Ecosystem and IBM’s Food Trust Initiative

By Helen Zhang

Blockchain Demystified

By Ben Hebert

In the financial world, the archetype of the wonky bitcoin guy is growing stronger than ever. These are the people secluding themselves in their basements trading tokens on Poloniex. The people who are known to bring up crypto in any and every…

Fintech to Redefine Real Estate and Insurance Industries

By Joshua Solesbury

Wait a minute … I thought FinTech was just in finance? That is what it seems at a glance, however, take a closer look and you will see that FinTech has far reaching influences especially…

Company Spotlight: Credit Karma

By Andrew Sieglin

Credit Karma is a fintech corporation that offers free credit score reports and evaluations through two major credit bureaus, TransUnion and Equifax. Through the company, clients are able to access their credit at all times and…

Cryptocurrencies are Speculative Assets, Nothing More

By Angela Gladkikh

Presenting evolutionary implications, blockchain technology has enabled the rise of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Despite their promise to secure transactions and reduce…