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Finovate Spring 2013: Realty Mogul Is A Crowdfunding Platform For Real Estate Investing [Video Interview]
It took a lot of time and effort to set up, but Jilliene Helman is now enabling individuals to participate …
Finovate Spring 2013: GoBank Is A New Finance Bank That Enables Smart Personal Money Management [Video Interview]
Unlike other online banking services GoBank didn’t partner with a banking institution to provide its services. It is a banking …
Finovate Spring 2013: Start A Trust Fund For Each Of Your Kids At TrustEgg [Video Interview]
It’s not a savings account and it’s not a checking account, but it will be the account we will all …
Finovate Spring 2013: Kabbage Approves And Lends Money To Small Businesses In 7 Minutes Or Less [Video Interview]
Marc Gorlin presented Kabbage’s new partnership with Intuit, the makers of the Small Business accounting software Quickbooks.
Just like they …
Finovate Spring 2013: Walla.by Is A Full Service Credit Card Advisor [Video Interview]
Walla.by has three services: It helps you decide which of your current cards to use to maximize rewards and minimize …
Finovate Spring 2013: GoodApril Helps You With Your Taxes All Year Round [Video Interview]
Every body thinks and does something about their taxes in “tax season” which is always late because it’s in April …
Finovate Spring 2013: In San Francisco At The Center Of The New Finance World
Today is the first day of the biggest financial technology (FinTech) conference in the world: Finovate.
I will be …
Justin Paterno, StockTwits Product Manager, Talks About Stock Message Streams And Heat-Maps
Justin Paterno comes from the finance industry and decided to join StockTwits when he realized that the “Web 2.0” had …
Peter Vessenes Talks About CoinLab
Peter Vessenes has a math and cryptography background so Bitcoin and how it works was a natural fit for his …
Basil Enan Talks About Online Insurance Service CoverHound
The insurance industry has always been a competitive landscape with companies selling directly to consumers or through agents. Consequently the …
From Beijing Roger Ying Talks About Pandai.cn
Where in western countries we see peer-to-peer lending as a novelty enabled by the internet in China it has been …
eToro’s Mati Greenspan Alerts About European Interest Rate Cut
With the long lasting European financial and economic crisis the European Central Bank has been lowering interest rates, but at …
Kasey Kaplan Talks About Waspit.me
Waspit.me is a banking platform for college students that puts together banking services, social connections, local venue reviews, and rewards …
From Mumbai Mukund Mudras And Som Sagar Talk About Heckyl [Video Interview]
Everybody is talking about trading strategies using “Twitter sentiment” this is by capturing and measuring the tweets about investments and …
From Mumbai Adhil Shetty Talks About BankBazaar [Video Interview]
While he was studying in New York Adhil’s friend in India was going crazy trying to find, negotiate, and finally …
Vlad Tenev And Baiju Bhatt Talk About The Robinhood Crowdsourcing Stock Rating App [Video Interview]
Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt are two Stanford mathematicians applying their knowledge to Wall Street in two very unique ways. …
Bethy Hardeman Talks About Credit Karma [Video Interview]
Credit Karma is a huge, fully integrated personal finance portal and community.
Where many have failed to successfully put together …
eToro’s Mati Greenspan Talks About Gold And The Yen [Video Interview]
On the eToro platform you can open an account, participate in their Social Trading Network, and follow and “copy” other …
Pete Matthew Talks About Financial Planning And The Internet [Video Interview]
From beautiful Cornwall, in the south western tip of United Kingdom, Pete Mathew has been producing videos and posting them …
Chris Corriveau Talks About StockTwits’ Sentiment Tools
Chris is the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of StockTwits and is largely responsible for the development of the website and …
Carl-Henrik Somp Talks About Trustly [Video Interview]
Imagine going to Craigslist and finding a button to pay whatever you bought on the website. Also, imagine using this …
Gonzague Gay-Bouchery Explains How MT.GOX Bitcoin Exchange Works
The Bitcoin exchange MT.GOX handles more than 80% of global daily Bitcoin trading. In all of 2012 they opened 10.000 …
Gonzague Gay-Bouchery: MT.GOX Bitcoin Exchange Did Not Suffer A DDoS Attack Yesterday
From Tokio, Gonzague Gay-Bouchery, MT.GOX Marketing Director, explains the real reason of the temporary blackout:
This is MT.GOX’s post on …
Dan Egan, Of Betterment, Talks About Behavioral Finance And Investing
Dan Egan’s interest in what are the reasons why people do things go back to his years in college where …