The Mogo Blog

We have a dream

Imagine opening an app on your phone and being able to see your Mogo loan and your MogoCard balance. Imagine that you could also reload your MogoCard and apply for a new loan if you need to, right from the app’s dashboard—which is really well designed, by the way. Sexy, even. Someone actually put some thought into this. The future... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9XC7_jeSF0&feature=youtu.be]In the future, you’d be able to use an app like that to get a loan. It would take only minutes, not d

It’s official: tech people think Mogo is super innovative

We’re in the Canadian Innovation Exchange’s (CIX) Public Investor Day Top 20! [http://publicinvestorday.com/cix-public-markets-top-20/] Okay that’s a mouthful, but we’re super stoked because it’s a cool program designed to showcase Canada’s hottest public tech companies. Out of hundreds of Canadian small and mid-cap tech companies, tech experts and investors across Canada chose only the 20 most innovative companies. And we’re one of them. Yay! Our CFO, Greg Feller, will be presenting on November

Fintech vs The Banks: The Disruption Is Real

Netflix. Uber. Amazon. All three companies permanently disrupted their industries with a more convenient experience and superior value proposition (better product, lower cost) through technology. In each company’s history, there was a point at which they went from novel concept to innovator to major threat to the leading solution. Along the way, there was an oh sh*t moment for the incumbents. This is happening today in financial services through technology, as witnessed by the massive global gr

5 Ways Mogo is Disrupting Banking

Money as we know it has been around for centuries. The funny thing is, when you think of the actual experience of banking, managing your money, and getting credit, it hasn’t evolved all that much (especially considering all those technological advances we’ve had). What gives? Mogo [https://www.mogo.ca/] was born out of the idea that banking in the 21st century should be different from what it was. Because when 1 in 3 millennials are open to switching banks, not “at some point in the future,” bu