Our competitive Launch summer accelerators are back and we're on the hunt for Atlantic Canadian based students and researchers who are interested in launching their business over the course of a 12-week intensive.🚀

Apply by March 17th: dalinnovates.ca/news/applicati…

MBB: Your Tigers are your 2023-2024 Atlantic University Sport Champions!! After an OT thriller, the Tigers pulled away to secure a 77-67 W and the Atlantic University Sport title over the StFX Athletics! The Tigers will head to Quebec City for the U SPORTS Championship on March 8!

#GoTigers
#FearTheRoar

'So the uncomfortable truth of the day is: it is brave to ask for help. It is brave to know you need it and accept you can’t do all and know all and go all the way alone.

It is a braver thing still, once you have bravely asked for help, to accept it.'

'And although we feared disintermediation from other businesses, it never occurred to us that the disintermediation would come from the technology itself and the relentless economics of digital distribution done right.'

#LedaWrites
fintechfutures.com/2024/02/the-fu…
Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻 Dan Feaheny Emeka Dr Efi Pylarinou Jenny Watts Jim Perry Dr Louise Maynard-Atem JenniferSertl (she/her) Curt Queyrouze 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦🏃🏻‍♂️⚜️🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 Dave Cunningham Jas Shah Ghela Boskovich Matthew Gardiner Fintechwali Viking Bella 🌻🐈 🐈‍⬛ Maria Pacurar Kate Drew Working on something New and Exciting Gary Fegan Paul Anderson Matthew Sekol Manon Loison

#FintechDrinks returns to Halifax! Join our friends Fintech Cadence with their Champion Partner Scotiabank & Atlantic Partner, Atlantic Fintech on February 29th, from 5pm to 7pm AST at @Volta to discuss #fintech scaling amid funding challenges. Details: bit.ly/3w1qE4g

'And maybe they don’t have a problem at all. If they did, it would make you money… but they don’t.
...
But you know what? You will make money next time.
Because the client will remember both your expertise, that helped guide them through the options, and your decency.'

“Call it: it’s time to double down or pull the plug on the things you have not doubled down on by now.
It’s OK.
It happens.
You need to try things. Not everything will work out.
But it’s time to call it.”

“Fintech has become one of those terms that people throw around to mean… whatever… and hide all manner of sins.”

“as the new year dawns, I ask you this: What good are our innovations and creative business models if they lock people into debt? What good are our digital riches if we fail to protect those we allegedly do things for?”

Fintech Brainfood presents: The State of Fintech 2023

65 pages including

1. Fintech: We are SO back
2. Embedded: Everything
3. Banks. Rates didn't save us
4. Big Tech. Welcome to regulation
5. Crypto. Or tokenization?

Plus more charts galore!

sytaylor.substack.com/p/fintech-brai…

“Because all the things that are true at the same time need to be thought of in the context of each other, or it is easy to underestimate their cumulative impact.”

The 2023 #Fintech Snark Tank Banking And Fintech Awards

As far as I know, Taylor Swift didn't win any banking or fintech awards this year. Maybe next year she'll offer a debit card so I can give her an award.

forbes.com/sites/ronshevl…

Dr Efi Pylarinou Dr Leda Glyptis Jason Mikula

#LedaWrites
fintechfutures.com/2023/12/times-…
Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻 Working on something New and Exciting Dr Louise Maynard-Atem Emeka Dr Efi Pylarinou Fintechwali Ronit Ghose Ron Shevlin Maria Pacurar Dave Cunningham JenniferSertl (she/her) Nigel Walsh 🙌🏻 Jenny Watts Jason Henrichs Curt Queyrouze 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦🏃🏻‍♂️⚜️🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 Chris R 🐇🕳 Chris Hladczuk Viking Bella 🌻🐈 🐈‍⬛ Jim Perry Andra Sonea Ghela Boskovich

'Be deliberate and honest about the things you won’t do. Because you don’t have the time and money for them – or don’t want to spend the time and money you have on them. That is leadership. And your teams will notice.'

#mustread insights via Dr Leda Glyptis buff.ly/46MiuJN

It’s expensive being poor.

Thank you to the student who played the piano at DalStudentUnion today! I usually grab lunch and head back to my desk but your 🎹 music made me want to linger a bit longer. #CampusLife #MindfulMoments

“The only way to support people who need money is to give them fair, affordable and speedy access to it so they get back on their feet.
Default rates among the poorest are no worse than any other segment of society.
Access is.”
#TechForGood #Inclusion

Pleased to see solid progress on Consumer-Driven Banking (aka Open Banking) in Canada today. We now have a path forward to help consumers do things like build credit by reporting their rent payments. Thanks Chrystia Freeland for the good news today.

How you show up each day as a leader is visible to all. The fights you side-step, blunders you don’t own up to, people you let get away with all the things you say you don’t tolerate in your culture statement.
...giving out equity is easier than consistent thoughtful leadership.