Tag: Fintech

December 14, 2020
December 14, 2020

EMTECH Helps Build Modern Financial Market Infrastructures in Emerging Markets

Clayton Bryan
The financial market infrastructure in emerging markets is not always able to support all citizens. Worldwide, there are 1.7 billion adults who are unbanked, causing a problem in need of an immediate solution to prevent economic inequities. We bel...
July 06, 2016
July 06, 2016

Fintech Investment is Exploding — 5 Ways Governments & Ecosystem Builders Can Help

Eddie Thai
with Sheel Mohnot Investment in fintech companies is up 8X in the past 5 years, with over 200 financings for a combined $4.9 billion in 1Q2016 alone.   "Silicon Valley is coming. There are hundreds of startups with a lot of brains and money wo...
April 13, 2016
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April 13, 2016

“Good Companies Solving Real Problems” — That Happen To Deal With Your Money

Walter Thompson
Before becoming 500 Startups' FinTech manager, Sheel Mohnot consulted for a company that was striving to be more competitive after the 2008 financial crisis. When pitching ideas, "the answer was often, 'raise the fees on your customers,'" said ...