Free investment platforms, fintech apps: Hidden costs, aggressive upselling and conflicts of interest

Free investment platforms, fintech apps: Hidden costs, aggressive upselling and conflicts of interest

The architecture of free platforms is designed around what they can eventually extract from you, not around what best serves your investment needs. Most fintechs are venture capital-funded and chronically loss-making, which means they cannot afford to grow sl…

Theres an old technology term that has vanished from everyday use: Wysiwyg, pronounced wizzywig. It stands for What You See Is What You Get and was coined in the early days of word processing to desc… [+4449 chars]