If you are underbanked you probably have limited access to mainstream financial services normally offered by retail banks. Many fintech startups offer alternative ways to measure credit risk, and assert that their products can help extend financial services to consumers who have not been well-served by traditional banks.

A new path forward for digital banks and their customers.

The president-elect takes a much more expansively realistic view on the synergistic relationship between infrastructure investment and the middle class.

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Join Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Square as he offers his insights into where the Fintech industry is headed next year. Will a Biden administration insist on greater regulation? What will happen in the cryptocurrency markets? What will be the big IPOs in the sector? Will GooglePlex make a big splash? What new technologies or applications should we be expecting?

Michael Ruvo, president and CEO of BondWave, talks about how he thinks technology changes — and the data that enables those changes — will help with market transparency and make for a more efficient market overall. Lynne Funk hosts. (21 minutes). Recorded Dec. 4.

The $6.8 million, three-year agreement with IBM includes hardware, software and services to design, install, operate and maintain a cyber center that will connect all the port's users to the system.

Jonathan Ballan, co-chair of the public and project finance team at Cozen O’Connor, calls for new categories of tax-exempt bonds to help urban areas redevelop from COVID-19. He also makes a deeply personal appeal to tighten cybersecurity laws. Northeast Regional Editor Paul Burton hosts. Recorded Nov. 19. (27 minutes)

It is unclear how or if the merger will affect IHS Markit's current work in the municipal space, but the firm had already been expanding its reach on a global scale.

Sowjana Sivaloganathan, director of fixed income at Intercontinental Exchange, and Patrick Smith, director of municipal evaluations at ICE Data Services, talk about how ICE and its Muni Curve has evolved in the muni space, the challenges COVID has presented and the transparency measures they have undertaken. Lynne Funk hosts. (30 minutes)

From finding new efficiencies to redefining the customer experience; fintechs are permanently changing financial services. But what does the actual acquisition process look like?

The coronavirus pandemic has turned every industry on its head. For lending, it exposed the need for modernized, fully digital platforms.

Banks, lenders, and fintechs have been on a path toward digitizing the mortgage process from end-to-end — long before the term coronavirus entered our daily lexicon. How has the pandemic affected progress?

A painful reality of the current environment is that headcount is a target for cost reduction despite that demands have never been greater — compliance, client demands and the need to access and leverage data and information to avoid a competitive disadvantage.

What Jason Gardner, founder and CEO of Marqeta, has learned leading a 450-person fintech from home.

The industry has long talked about embracing digital technology — but the time for talk may be over.

A survey of leaders across financial services finds that the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred companies in every industry to dramatically accelerate their adoption of AI and automation — even in cases where investments to date have proven inconclusive or disappointing.

Accurate obligor identification can allow any matrix-based bond evaluation system to improve pricing accuracy and reduce manual intervention by pricing analysts, the firm said.

A conversation with Greg Carmichael, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Fifth Third Bancorp discussing the consumer banking trends and lessons learned during the pandemic.