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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Gina Taylor Cotter, SVP & GM, Global Commercial Financing, American Express (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Jan 27th

Sramana Mitra: Are any of the experiments in equity crowd financing for small businesses on your radar or are you exclusively focused on debt? Gina Taylor Cotter: We’re not watching that too closely. What’s more interesting to me is seeing some of the bigger small business players evolve their model. You mentioned two – Kabbage

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Gina Taylor Cotter, SVP & GM, Global Commercial Financing, American Express (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Jan 26th

Sramana Mitra: The data you draw off is limited to just your ecosystem. Gina Taylor Cotter: That’s correct. If you want to talk about the merchant financing product that has been in the market since 2011, we do have an application process where were gather some of that additional information. The reason being that we

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Gina Taylor Cotter, SVP & GM, Global Commercial Financing, American Express (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Jan 25th

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click again one more layer into that. I’m going to give you a proxy of what we learned from our coverage of Kabbage and OnDeck. I would like to hear you describe the heuristics based on which you are evaluating these loans. In the case of OnDeck or Kabbage, in the segment

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Gina Taylor Cotter, SVP & GM, Global Commercial Financing, American Express (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 24th

Innovations in Financial Technology are flowing from the startup world into the large companies. This excellent conversation gives us a window into how Amex is bringing some of these innovations into their offerings. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as American Express’ activity in the financial technology area. Gina

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Outsourcing: Fabio Rosati, CEO of Elance (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Dec 12th

Followers of this blog may recall that Elance was featured on Deal Radar in 2008. Founded in 1999, the Mountain View, California–based company continues to give outsourcing competitors like oDesk and Freelancer.com a run for their money. Sramana Mitra: Hi, Fabio. Would you give me some background about you and also about Elance. I know

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