There are two banking systems in the world today: one for people with money (or good credit), and another for people without. Neither of these systems work well. Thankfully, we’re entering the “AWS for fintec...

In the economic process known as creative destruction, new technologies displace—and eventually destroy—old structures. Nowhere is this more evident in financial services than recent structural shifts in brokerage fi...

Max Levchin helped build PayPal. Then he went onto tackle gaming at Slide. Now he’s back in the world of payments and finance with his latest startup Affirm. a16z’s Angela Strange talks with Levchin about Affirm’s ...

Technology companies are running hard at almost every part of the traditional banking business — from raising funds to moving money from one person to another. And as you would expect, that has meant change, both i...

There are fewer and fewer parts of our lives that don’t feel like an extension of our smartphones. Any song you might want to hear. Any place you might want to go. And a ride to get there. All served up simply, qui...

 

Patience, please — ‘legal’ Bitcoin is actually only one year old! That is, even though the Bitcoin source code was posted to the Internet in 2009, it was only clearly legal for American institutions to get invo...