Challenger bank Varo, which has raised $179 million from Warburg Pincus and TPG, just took a big step that might separate it from competitors like Chime and Monzo

Dan DeFrancesco | No recent fintech or challenger bank has received a national bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

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Citi's revved-up credit-card business helped it beat earnings — and it may be pivotal in proving Wall Street doubters wrong

Alex Morrell | It's a stark reversal of fortune for the bank's credit-card business, which struggled in 2018 and missed growth targets.

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Former Bain & Co. and Sagard Capital partners are launching a small-cap-focused hedge fund

Bradley Saacks | 325 Capital is planning to raise $400 million for its launch, sources tell Business Insider, and will focus on big bets in small public companies.

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This tech VC overcame a crippling fear of failure to launch 2 startups he later sold for more than $100 million

Charlie Wood | Manoj Saxena lived with monks to overcome his fear of entrepreneurship. He ended up building and selling two software firms.

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We've mapped out the 30 most powerful people in Bank of America Merrill Lynch's vaunted bond-trading division

Alex Morrell,Yutong Yuan | COO Tom Montag oversees one of the most formidable FICC divisions on Wall Street. Here are his top executives and lieutenants.

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An 'icy' ending: A Wall Street expert sees a critical market metric stretched to 'extreme' levels — and warns of a painful reckoning to come

Christopher Competiello | Doug Ramsey, the chief investment officer at Leuthold Group, sees an area of the market that's primed for reversal.

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The founder of a $1.7 billion startup shares the one slide every pitch deck needs to succeed

Sherin Shibu,Shana Lebowitz | Henry Ward, the founder and CEO of Carta, has raised $448 million from investors like Andreessen Horowitz. He says all decks need a domino chart.

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JPMORGAN: Investors are making a major error right now. Here are the trades that can help them right the ship and crush the 2nd half of 2019.

Marley Jay | The firm is telling investors to prepare for weaker growth with slowly rising inflation, as well as slower profit gains for S&P 500 companies.

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This startup is giving away all its database software for free as open source, and it says it's not afraid of Oracle or Amazon

Rosalie Chan | YugaByte will make its database completely open source. Although vendors like Amazon could sell YugaByte's free software, the founders aren't worried.

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