31 Aug 2022

Announcement, Awards

Tearsheet launches the Vision Awards to honor financial services leaders

• This year’s winners include executives from Revenued, Happen Bank, Worth, Lumin Digital, Fruitful, and Best Egg.
• Their contributions span SMB access to capital, bank transformation, consumer finance, digital banking, and responsible growth.

5 questions, Member Exclusive, Payments

How Gen Z’s expectations are pushing treasury toward real-time finance feat. Citizens

• Gen Z is raising the bar for treasury, expecting payment visibility, transparency, and control to keep pace with real-time money movement.
• Citizens is modernizing banking connectivity, but instant payments also demand earlier fraud checks and better information-sharing across banks, fintechs, and payment providers.

Blockchain and Crypto, Partner, Podcasts

At Stellar’s Meridian conference, Anthony Scaramucci tells banks to “kill the iPod in your business”

• Anthony Scaramucci wants the 10 largest U.S. stocks on chain first, because equities will draw the attention that pulls the rest of the market along.
• The SkyBridge founder expects SEC guidance to matter more than legislation and urges bank product leaders to retire their own best-selling products.

5 questions, Awards, Banking

How Pathward helps partners grow with confidence

• Pathward was named Partner Bank of the Year at the Tearsheet Big Bank Theory Awards 2026.
• Will Sowell, Chief Customer Officer at Pathward, discusses what fintechs need from a bank partner today, balancing innovation with risk and compliance, and how Pathward is adapting to market changes.

Business of Fintech, Member Exclusive

How Block is turning Square and Cash App into one local growth network

• Block has connected Square’s seller network with Cash App’s consumer base via Neighborhoods, giving local businesses a way to turn discovery into direct orders, customer relationships, and potentially repeat visits.
• Neighborhoods is designed to bypass the traditional marketplace model. Its growth will depend on whether Cash App can generate meaningful customer demand and repeat spending without adding another layer of cost for sellers.