Top Fintech News Stories for Oct. 12, 2021

Here are the most read news stories from our daily newsletter today:

  • Trillion-dollar inflation on the way? How do we know? – LendIt Fintech News
  • Crypto Lender Celsius Network Raises $400M in Bid to Reassure Regulators – Coindesk
  • NerdWallet IPO Filing Shows 21M Unique Visitors Per Month – PYMNTS.com
  • Oportun Updates on Pursuit of National Bank Charter, Withdraws Application – For Now – CrowdFund Insider
  • Top Facebook digital currency engineers depart to join Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto fund – CNBC
  • JPMorgan Chase joins UN’s Net-Zero Banking Alliance – Banking Dive
  • Jamie Dimon says bitcoin is ‘worthless’ – CNBC
  • Industry scrambles to prepare for CFPB debt collection rules – American Banker
  • She co-founded a $1 billion fintech start-up in Asia — and wants to show other women they can too – CNBC
  • To Navigate A Complex Future, Banks Need To Become Far More ‘Adaptive’ – Forbes
  • John K. White

    John has been in communications since graduating from Creative Communications at Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg in 1992. He launched one of Canada's first digital-only local news sites called Winnipeg First in 2007, which led to digital editor postings with the Winnipeg Free Press and Edmonton Journal. In 2012 he joined Bankless Times as managing editor, later becoming president and CEO. He and the Bankless Media co-founders completed a sale and exit in August 2021.