Blockchain front and centre at digital finance event
By simply looking at the speaker’s list for this week’s Frontiers of Digital Finance one gets an idea of how much fintech has been accepted in financial circles, Biz2Credit co-founder and CEO Rohit Arora said.
Biz2Credit and the Columbia Business School are hosting the two-day conference, which is being held Oct.2-3 in New York City at the Columbia Business School. Confirmed speakers include executives from institutions such as Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon, faculty from Columbia and Yale, and executives from some of the most successful fintech startups.
That loan was rejected twice, the museum said, likely due to a glitch because it was applying as a nonprofit, even though it applied at Cross River, the same bank it had used for its first-round loan last year.
In April, museum officials reapplied at other financial institutions, thinking they had more than enough time to be approved and funded before May 31.
Even though the museum is now open again at limited capacity, the funding would have been a big help. Last year, the institution received a PPP loan for about $460,000 2.5 times monthly payroll for the 50-some employees which helped it stay afloat.