Authors:

  • Ethan Rouen

Excerpt

July 15, 2022, Opinion: "FinTech companies are seeing enormous investor interest on the back of promises of providing services to the financially underserved — a clear example of social enterprise that can do well by doing good. Yet while the industry has increasingly become synonymous with impact potential, fintech companies and investors have little insight into whether the industry is actually living up to its grand promises. Without more rigorous approaches to identifying and measuring impact, investors will continue to guess at the impact these companies. The authors provide several pieces of advice for how FinTech can better disclose their social impacts."

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