Thank you Secil Baysal for speaking to USC's Fintech Class last night! Fascinating for the students to hear your insights on payments and lending in the media ecosystem!
Thank you Bryan Walley for speaking to USC's Fintech Class! The students loved your energy and learning about payments in the entertainment ecosystem!
Thank you Ron Miller for speaking to USC's Fintech Class this week! Extremely interesting for the students to learn of StartEngine's role in the first Reg A+ offering and the evolving market of equity raising.
Thank you to Arjan Schütte, Founder & Managing Partner at Core Innovation Capital, and Steve McLaughlin, Founder / CEO / Managing Partner at FT Partners for speaking at the USC FinTech class. Topics ranged from early stage investments to megatrends in the FinTech industry.
Thank you Walter Cruttenden, Co-founder & Chairman of Acorns, for speaking to the USC Fintech class about the evolution of wealth management, today's savings trends, and robo-advising. Extremely interesting conversation which was enjoyed by the students!
Chris Finan, CEO and Co-Founder of Manifold Technology, spoke to the USC FinTech class about bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and security in today's digital finance ecosystem. Thank you Chris for sharing your insight with the students. Fascinating topic!
Dan Leberman, PayPal's VP & General Manager - SMB North America, spoke to the USC FinTech class about PayPal, Venmo, Braintree, and innovation in the payment eco-system. Thank you Dan for sharing your insight with the students. Everyone truly enjoyed such an engaging conversation!!!
Ron Miller joined USC students on March 29 to discuss equity crowdfunding and StartEngine's role in the first Reg A+ Title IV offering. Extremely interesting talk for the students! Thanks Ron!
Thank you to Anthony Hsieh, Chairman, and Brian Biglin, CRO, for speaking to engaged USC students last night!
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Tim Li and Elizabeth Braman of RealtyMogul spoke at the first USC FinTech Speaker Series Event! Extremely successful session with great engagement. Thank you for joining us! Up tomorrow: Anthony Hsieh, loanDepot Chairman & CEO, and Brian Biglin, loanDepot CRO.
Excited to launch this course with amazing students! Class 1 readings and slides are posted!
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USC Students,
For the sixth installment of USC’s FinTech Guest Speaker Series, we have the pleasure of hosting Acorns Co-Founder Jeff Cruttenden.
Acorns is a financial service that helps people invest their money. Acorns enables its users to start early, invest often, and feel secure about their financial future. The company helps its users proactively invest. The app rounds up each users’ transactions to the nearest dollar, and invests the change into a diversified portfolio. Simply connect a credit card, or debit card and a checking account. Acorns will automatically recommend a stock portfolio based on the users’ information like age, time horizon, investment goals and the amount of risk they are comfortable taking.
The FinTech Guest Speaker Series is part of Marshall’s new MBA level course FBE 599 – The Fintech Revolution: Disrupting Traditional Finance. The course will dive into selected emerging FinTech business models to understand how they are disputing traditional banking. As a part of the course, each lesson will have C-Level executives from various FinTech companies join as guest lecturers. These industry leaders will speak more deeply on the topics covered in class, the FinTech industry as a whole, and the disruption in their segment. In the spirit of being inclusive the speaker portion of the class will be open for all USC students. Guest speakers will present the second half of class from 800 - 930pm.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP through Eventbrite. If we need to limit attendance due to room capacity, priority will be given in the following order: students enrolled in the class (actually, you are required to attend), MBA students not enrolled in course, undergraduate Marshall students, then all other USC students. For students who decide to join the lectures, please find a seat (first come first served basis but please do not infringe on the seats of students enrolled in the course) during the class's break.
We’re excited to launch the USC FinTech Guest Speaker Series and hope you can make it!
Cheers,
Marc Hamud & James Healy
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USC Students,
For the fifth installment of USC’s FinTech Guest Speaker Series, we have the pleasure of hosting Dan Leberman, VP & General Manager, SMB North America, PayPal
PayPal, was founded in 1998, and continues to be at the forefront of the digital payments revolution. In 2015, 28% of the 4.9 billion payments the company processed were made on a mobile device. PayPal gives people better ways to connect to their money and to each other, helping them safely access and move their money and offering a choice of how they would like to pay or be paid.
With a 179 million active customer accounts, they have created an open and secure payments ecosystem that people and businesses choose to securely transact with each other online, in stores and on mobile devices. PayPal is a truly global payments platform that is available to people in more than 200 markets, allowing customers to get paid in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds to their bank accounts in 57 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 26 currencies.
The FinTech Guest Speaker Series is part of Marshall’s new MBA level course FBE 599 – The Fintech Revolution: Disrupting Traditional Finance. The course will dive into selected emerging FinTech business models to understand how they are disputing traditional banking. As a part of the course, each lesson will have C-Level executives from various FinTech companies join as guest lecturers. These industry leaders will speak more deeply on the topics covered in class, the FinTech industry as a whole, and the disruption in their segment. In the spirit of being inclusive the speaker portion of the class will be open for all USC students. Guest speakers will present the second half of class from 800 - 930pm.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP through Eventbrite. If we need to limit attendance due to room capacity, priority will be given in the following order: students enrolled in the class (actually, you are required to attend), MBA students not enrolled in course, undergraduate Marshall students, then all other USC students. For students who decide to join the lectures, please find a seat (first come first served basis but please do not infringe on the seats of students enrolled in the course) during the class's break.
We’re excited to launch the USC FinTech Guest Speaker Series and hope you can make it!
Cheers,
Marc Hamud & James Healy
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USC Students,
For the third installment of USC’s FinTech Guest Speaker Series, we have the pleasure of hosting Daniel Macklin, co-founder of SoFi.
SoFi is a modern finance company that's fueling the shift to a bankless world. The company's radical approach delivers unprecedented services for lending and wealth management. We evaluate applicants based on a holistic view of their financial well-being rather than a three digit score. Whether thier members are looking to refinance their student loans, buy their dream home, or simply seek advice as they ascend in their careers, SoFi provides the best products and tools to match their ambitions and propel them to new levels of financial greatness.
The FinTech Guest Speaker Series is part of Marshall’s new MBA level course FBE 599 – The Fintech Revolution: Disrupting Traditional Finance. The course will dive into selected emerging FinTech business models to understand how they are disputing traditional banking. As a part of the course, each lesson will have C-Level executives from various FinTech companies join as guest lecturers. These industry leaders will speak more deeply on the topics covered in class, the FinTech industry as a whole, and the disruption in their segment. In the spirit of being inclusive the speaker portion of the class will be open for all USC students. Guest speakers will present the second half of class from 800 - 930pm.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP through Eventbrite. If we need to limit attendance due to room capacity, priority will be given in the following order: students enrolled in the class (actually, you are required to attend), MBA students not enrolled in course, undergraduate Marshall students, then all other USC students. For students who decide to join the lectures, please find a seat (first come first served basis but please do not infringe on the seats of students enrolled in the course) during the class's break.
We’re excited to launch the USC FinTech Guest Speaker Series and hope you can make it!
Cheers,
Marc Hamud & James Healy
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USC Students,
For the second installment of USC’s FinTech Guest Speaker Series, we have the pleasure of hosting Anthony Hsieh, Chairman & CEO, and Brian Biglin, CRO, of loanDepot.
loanDepot, LLC was founded in 2010, with a customer-centric strategy to deliver mortgage and non-mortgage loans with great service and competitive rates. They are a national, nonbank lender serving consumers across the nation under the brand names of loanDepot, imortgage, Mortgage Master and LDWholesale.
With 5,000+ employees, including more than 1,500 licensed loan officers, loanDepot is transforming the lending model by integrating sound lending disciplines, efficient lead-delivery systems and predictive data science into an efficient technology platform that streamlines the lending process from origination through servicing of mortgage and non-mortgage loan products. Headquarters in Foothill Ranch, CA, the company also operates 140+ retail branch locations under the imortgage and Mortgage Master brands.
The FinTech Guest Speaker Series is part of Marshall’s new MBA level course FBE 599 – The Fintech Revolution: Disrupting Traditional Finance. The course will dive into selected emerging FinTech business models to understand how they are disputing traditional banking. As a part of the course, each lesson will have C-Level executives from various FinTech companies join as guest lecturers. These industry leaders will speak more deeply on the topics covered in class, the FinTech industry as a whole, and the disruption in their segment. In the spirit of being inclusive the speaker portion of the class will be open for all USC students. Guest speakers will present the second half of class from 800 - 930pm.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP through Eventbrite. If we need to limit attendance due to room capacity, priority will be given in the following order: students enrolled in the class (actually, you are required to attend), MBA students not enrolled in course, undergraduate Marshall students, then all other USC students. For students who decide to join the lectures, please find a seat (first come first served basis but please do not infringe on the seats of students enrolled in the course) during the class's break.
We’re excited to launch the USC FinTech Guest Speaker Series and hope you can make it!
Cheers,
Marc Hamud & James Healy
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USC Students,
For the first installment of USC’s FinTech Guest Speaker Series, we have the pleasure of hosting Timothy Li, CIO & Acting CMO and Elizabeth Braman, Chief Product Officer of RealtyMogul.
RealtyMogul.com launched in 2013 with one mission: simplify real estate investment by connecting real estate entrepreneurs and investors through cutting-edge technology. Today LA-based RealtyMogul is a leading online real estate capital marketplace – one that offers commercial equity and commercial debt products nationwide, educates investors, and changes the way real estate investing and financing is viewed forever.
The FinTech Guest Speaker Series is part of Marshall’s new MBA level course FBE 599 – The Fintech Revolution: Disrupting Traditional Finance. The course will dive into selected emerging FinTech business models to understand how they are disputing traditional banking. As a part of the course, each lesson will have C-Level executives from various FinTech companies join as guest lecturers. These industry leaders will speak more deeply on the topics covered in class, the FinTech industry as a whole, and the disruption in their segment. In the spirit of being inclusive the speaker portion of the class will be open for all USC students. Guest speakers will present the second half of class from 800pm - 930pm.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP through Eventbrite. If we need to limit attendance due to room capacity, priority will be given in the following order: students enrolled in the class (actually, you are required to attend), MBA students not enrolled in course, undergraduate Marshall students, then all other USC students. For students who decide to join the lectures, please find a seat (first come first served basis but please do not infringe on the seats of students enrolled in the course) during the class's break.
We’re excited to launch the USC FinTech Guest Speaker Series and hope you can make it!
Cheers,
Marc Hamud & James Healy
Inspried by USC students' interest in FinTech and excited to open up our FinTech Guest Speaker Series to all students! Thank you to Caitlin Tran and The Daily Trojan for highlighting our FinTech course!
Daily Trojan Article:
Recognizing the explosive growth of FinTech, the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business is taking the lead in launching the first comprehensive FinTech course at a major U.S. university. Topics will include the emerging model in alternative lending and the use of data/algorithms, bank disintermediation through marketplace lending, new methods of equity raising, blockchain technology, innovative payment solutions, and the trends affecting wealth management services. Leading FinTech executives are aligned as guest speakers to share their perspectives about the future of the industry. While other top U.S. universities provide exposure to the space including the MIT’s FinTech conference, Berkeley’s course on payments, and Wharton’s FinTech student organization, I feel particularly fortunate to be involved with USC’s initiative, which is at the forefront of FinTech education.
