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Disrupting Finance From Above: Wealthfront

abovethecrowd.com

Many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley believe that the financial services industry in the United States is “ripe for disruption. ” First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. In 2013 there were 967 million FPS transactions. The basis of this argument is really two fold.

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Argentinian fintech infrastructure startup Geopagos leaves the boot straps behind with $35M funding round

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services. This spells ample opportunity for payments infrastructure providers such as Geopagos. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding.

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