Reviews

Of all the opportunities in fintech, insurance technology, or insurtech, might be the biggest. The trillion-dollar sector has remained stagnant for decades, but a few companies in San Francisco, the site of the Benzinga FinTech Summit on September 28th, are primed for disruptions. Here are a...

Thanks to the proliferation of robo-advising—investing algorithms that can potentially replace human financial planners—more and more people are starting to move away from the routine time drag of physically meeting a financial advisor and monitoring their activity through phone...

The Benzinga Fintech Summit is an event for those interested in finance, entrepreneurship, capital markets, deal-making, networking and accelerating their business. It's a chance to interact with and learn from founders, C-Suite institutional executives, leaders of the biggest and hottest...

Personal finance is a little more complicated than just balancing the checkbook in the 21st century. There are digital wallets to keep track of, multiple bank accounts, and of course, the investment portfolio to monitor. Since many Americans are in a precarious financial situation, you can’t...

CAI International Inc. (NYSE: CAI) is seeing excellent follow-through from last Friday, when price popped all the way up to a high of $26.12. On Monday the stock gained $1.00, or 3.8%, to close at a three-year high of $26.93 on 427,600 shares traded. Analysts have dramatically increased earnings...

"Shark Tank" star, multi-millionaire investor, and chairman of O'Shares Investments Kevin O'Leary will lead a panel of "Shark Tank" companies at the first-ever Benzinga Fintech Summit, which will be held Sept. 28 at Broadway Studios in San Francisco California. O'...

Fintech is rapidly changing many core aspects of the finance industry, and one of the technologies with the most potential impact is online lending. Since banks shy away from small-dollar loans with low margins, many entrepreneurs and individuals have historically had trouble getting the capital...

Fintech is rapidly changing many core aspects of the finance industry, and one of the technologies with the most potential impact is artificial intelligence. AI technology has the capacity to both save the industry millions of dollars in regulatory costs and efficiency improvements and also...

Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited film “Dunkirk,” an epic about the harrowing Allied escape from northern France near the start of World War II, is winning over the hearts and minds of critics. Nolan, who has built a broad following through his “Dark Knight” trilogy and...

Last week started off with many on Wall Street still convinced that the Federal Reserve would act irrationally and raise rates quickly. After their careful steps to recover from the great recession I thought this was unlikely. The mid-week testimony by Fed Chair Janet Yellen reassured the markets...

The long-awaited "All Eyez On Me" Tupac Shakur biopic has finally made it to the big screen, just in time for what would have been the slain rapper/actor's 46th birthday. Shakur's fans can be fiercely protective of his legacy, placing the film under immense pressure to not only...

There was a time when payments were simple. You would hand someone cash or write them out a check in exchange for what goods or service that you wanted or needed. That’s not the case today. The payments ecosystem is now a complicated global machine that includes hundreds of international...