The Manifesto

A New Financial Revolution Has Begun

The first one started in the late 1600s, when England adopted a set of financing techniques that had been developed in the Netherlands. These innovations included bills of exchange (aka checks), perpetual annuities issued by governmental…

Nine Things That Won’t Happen in Fintech Next Year

Given fintech’s surge in 2015, prognostications for next year have gotten pretty bold. Our firm decided to take a different, more muted approach by offering predictions on things we do not expect to see next year. Here is our list:

Nine Things That Won’t Happen in Fintech Next Year

A New Allentown on Wall Street

“Well we’re waiting here in Allentown, for the Pennsylvania we never found.” Billy Joel

It’s Cool to be a Fintech Pirate Slaying Wall Street (For Now)

Weekly Briefing #02

What happens in Iceland, shouldn’t stay in Iceland. Last week, one of Iceland’s most promising fintech companies, Meniga, made news as it was chosen by Business Insider as one of the most promising Nordic fintech start-ups. We hadn’t heard about Meniga previously, but this company, which arose…

Weekly Briefing #5 — Meet the $40 billion Wall Street revenue killer: John Bogle.

Meet the $40 billion Wall Street revenue killer: John Bogle. Who’d want to buy a no-brain mutual fund that merely matches the market? That’s the dismissive question Wall Street lobbed at…

Weekly Briefing #01

Today, thanks to the exponential rate of technological change, explosion in global trade and new regulations ushered in by the Great Financial Crisis, a new financial revolution is under way. In this battle, virtually every aspect of the greater financial services sector is subject to rigorous…