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Jackson Mueller
July 07, 2017The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released a paper in mid-June covering the world’s most innovative clusters based on patent filings published under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) system between 2010 and 2015. -
Jackson Mueller
June 15, 2017A report by the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) provides 10 best practices to guide regulators in the region in support of the development of FinTech. -
Jackson Mueller
June 05, 2017Does being financially literate automatically lead to overall financial health? In today’s financial marketplace, consumers have unprecedented access to a variety of financial products and services, but understanding which products... -
Jackson Mueller
May 17, 2017Nearly two weeks after U.S. Comptroller Tom Curry stepped down and less than a month after the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) filed suit against the Office of the... -
Jackson Mueller
May 10, 2017Square: Square generated total net revenue of more than $460 million in the first quarter, a 22 percent year-over-year increase, with gross payment volume at $13.6 billion—a 33 percent increase from a year... -
Jackson Mueller
May 08, 2017Mastercard added its digital wallet Masterpass to Facebook Messenger, while PayPal extended its partnership with Google by enabling PayPal to be used as a payment method within Android Pay. -
Jackson Mueller
April 13, 2017I mean, at some point you’re all going to go on vacation, right? This week’s edition will largely focus on a number of reports that have surfaced over the past... -
Jackson Mueller
April 11, 2017Late last year we held a private roundtable discussion at the Milken Institute London Summit on SME finance with a number of influential policymakers and industry stakeholders involved in financial... -
Jackson Mueller
April 06, 2017Which means it’s National Financial Literacy Month! A month filled with colorful charts and statistics on how terrible we are at budgeting and understanding basic finance. -
Jackson Mueller
March 29, 2017Startup Genome released its third report, after analyzing 10,000 startups and 300 partner companies to come up with the world’s ecosystems where startups have the best chance of building global success. -
Jackson Mueller
March 22, 2017Eight hundred and two U.S. taxpayers filed Form 8949 in 2015 to account for “a property description likely related to Bitcoin,” according to an affidavit filed in support of the IRS lawsuit against Coinbase. -
Jackson Mueller
March 15, 2017KPMG released a survey ranking the major innovation hubs around the world beyond Silicon Valley, and four of the top 10 cities are in the U.S. -
Jackson Mueller
March 08, 2017Hello, FinTech in Focus readers! Yours truly attended LendIt USA this week and focused, unsurprisingly, on the policy and regulatory track, including moderating a panel on the regulatory landscape for... -
Jackson Mueller
March 01, 2017Just to be clear, R3 CEV’s Corda product is not a blockchain platform, but a distributed ledger platform. -
Jackson Mueller
February 22, 2017Goldman Sachs’ digital finance head, Harit Talwar, gave a brief overview of Marcus—the bank’s consumer digital lending platform—in a recent interview, describing it as combining technology with Goldman Sachs’ balance... -
Jackson Mueller
February 15, 2017A few developments among traditional financial providers and those that call themselves FinTechs: First, Nasdaq is reportedly forming a venture capital arm focused on making FinTech investments to support the company’s operations. -
Jackson Mueller
February 08, 2017Greetings, readers of FinTech in Focus, where yours truly is still trying to figure out how, in the 21st century, I could not get a live stream of the Super Bowl... -
Jackson Mueller
February 01, 2017Preliminary celebrations are already underway for my son’s fourth birthday party. Celebrations first began last weekend where yours truly inhaled gas fumes at a monster truck event (similar to World... -
Jackson Mueller
January 25, 2017In a previous white paper, we highlighted the growth in the number of coalitions and associations that surfaced as federal regulators increased scrutiny on non-bank digital finance platforms. The Marketplace Lending... -
Jackson Mueller
January 18, 2017With less than a week to go before the Trump Administration takes office, folks at the White House aren’t packing just yet.
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