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The most prized ideas

A couple weeks ago, at the Underbanked Financial Services Forum, we asked people for big, wild ideas for serving the underbanked: our portfolio companies showed their strength to standing-room-only crowds, four companies battled in the Core Challenge, a modest group of Tweeters threw caution to the wind, and the largest…

2012 Underbanked Innovators Challenge Finalists

We received many nominations for the best innovation serving the underbanked in America.  Mostly startups, but also some big companies, including banks.  Mostly payments, but also credit, savings and financial capability solutions.  Mostly true innovations, but also quite a few doozies.  Our judges looked for true innovation, demo-ability, and also…

Interest in Principles?

After hundreds of billions of bailout dollars and a litany of ensuing debacles, our banks are not the pride of the nation.  Bankers are more maligned than used-car salesmen, it seems.  Bank regulators have been completely overhauled and the aftermath of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau won’t be written for…