AI for Financial Advisors: How Does It Help?

For years, financial advisors have been a mainstay of the investment and finance world, offering investment advice and guidance to individuals, companies, and institutions looking to grow their wealth. However, in recent years there has been a growing chorus of criticism directed at human financial advisors and at the financial advisory industry in general, with […]

Dogtown Media Named Top Leader in Financial App Development

Last year, an analytics team estimated that smartphone users in the U.S. spend 4.6 hours a day on mobile apps. When stats for app usage are that high, having an app for your business seems like an emerging standard. But wait — 21% of app users are reported to abandon an app after first usage. […]

Expert Sessions: “Cryptocurrency 101” with Ben Sigman

When you work in app development, you get to cross paths with some truly brilliant thinkers with bold ideas about tech, society, and the future. Ben Sigman is one such mind. The CEO and founder of IT company We Solve Problems, Ben is, by his own admission, obsessed with cryptocurrencies. (How obsessed is he? Let’s […]

Will 2016 Be the Golden Age of FinTech App Development?

The Lending Club IPO in 2014 marked the beginning of a Renaissance for FinTech app developers, with financial app services launching with ever-greater frequency (and ever-larger funding). Today, FinTech app startups like Mint and Robinhood are disrupting the personal finance and stock trading industries respectively, leading developers to wonder: how much more room for growth […]