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This week, Plaid, a VC backed fintech startup issued a Y Combinator-like “request for startups” to tackle particular issues where it believes significant innovation is lacking.We’re excited to issue our first Fintech Request for Startups (drawing on YC’s style of RFS). The list below represents a number of underserved areas of financial services where we believe there can be significant improvements made to existing products, or new ones created. - PlaidSo what kinds of companies is Plaid looking for? Its list, and a description of companies in each sub-sector it’s looking for, is below:Better bills. Bills are often made to be opaque and unengaging, perhaps with the hope that consumers will “set it and forget it”. Tools that allow consumers to actively monitor, better understand, and easily update their bills are much needed. Likewise, bill / rate benchmarking services and simple credit products to avoid overdrafts or missed payments could also drive great consumer value.Consumer-centric loan servicing. Once most loans in the United States are issued, they are immediately passed off to a servicer, who is responsible for collecting (“servicing”) the loan until it’s been fully paid off. This is generally an impersonal relationship, and in the event a loan reaches collections, it’s often dehumanizing. There is significant opportunity to create a consumer-centric loan servicing model that helps coach consumers out of debt and — ideally — helps them to build good credit.Hardware + software for branches. In-branch banking is waning, but a significant portion of our banking interactions still occur in-person. 80% of mortgages are still issued in-person. Though the trend towards digital, asynchronous banking continues, it could take decades. In the meantime, there is significant opportunity to digitize the in-branch experience, for lending, account opening, Know Your Customer (KYC), and much more.Tax preparation. Despite being a relatively straightforward problem to solve, there are few startups are focused on tax preparation. Digitizing the U.S. federal + state tax codes would for a great open-source project, and doing so could enable many new entrants.Mobile bank account opening. Opening a new account is the entry point to working with a bank, yet doing so is a cumbersome process that still often requires in-person branch visits, phone calls, and multi-day wait times. There is a significant opportunity for an SDK that can be embedded in existing mobile banking applications to enable bank account opening on mobile devices.Abstractions from the core. Almost every bank in the United States relies on a mainframe-based “core” banking platform, predominantly built by a few long-tenured providers (Fiserv, FIS, Jack Henry). Interfacing with these proprietary “core” systems is incredibly difficult (and often requires the cooperation of the core providers themselves), meaning that many banks cannot build new features or functionalities for their users. Creating an abstraction layer on top of the core to allow banks to innovate more quickly could have massive value.Brokerage-as-a-Service. To build an investing or robo-advising application, developers must work with a clearing broker that executes trades and holds shares on behalf of an individual. As investing applications continue to grow, there is opportunity to build a modern back-end clearing service that brokerage and investment applications can be built upon.“Exotic” insurance. There is increasing interest in non-traditional property and casualty insurance, particularly around short-term policies that cover specific items. For example, laptop insurance for a trip abroad, or bicycle insurance for just a few hours. As data becomes more plentiful, accurately pricing these policies will become more practical.Compliance-as-a-Service. Regulatory and payments compliance is difficult for startups, yet more and more must figure it out every year. There could be opportunity for plug-and-play compliance programs and platforms for early stage companies to help satisfy requirements for KYC, AML, BSA, etc.

The question itself has many fallacies contained in it.Cub Scouts are organized into Packs, not Troops.Packs do not get “full”. There is no size limit, no leader quota. A given unit might, at worst, say that they can’t take on any new youth because they don’t have adult leaders for it…but as I’ve volunteered right alongside my sons in every step of the way, that barrier wouldn’t exist either.Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) does not admit boys, and will not do so in the future. It’s inherently contrary to their own mission statement. My permission would be irrelevant, they would not take his application.With that said, I have enrolled my daughter in GSUSA, multiple times. It is a good and worthwhile program.Every youth should be involved in some sort of program that teaches character and leadership. Whether that’s the BSA, the GSUSA, 4H, Boys and Girls Club, or something else…you owe it to your kids to get them involved in something positive, not sitting at home on electronics or running with street gangs.

Yes there are single gender male groups boys can join. It called Scouts BSA. Ypu can go to the link below and search for a local Scouts BSA Troop.Scout Me In | Boy Scouts of AmericaWe are excited that you are interested in joining the Boy Scouts of America! Search by postal code to find Scouting near you and apply online.http://beascout.orgIt starts by entering your zip code, then choosing BSA as the program. Once you do this you click search.This will bring up a list of all troops so you need to click on filter. This will bring up a menu that contains Program, Application and Distance. Click on Program. The menu will change to include a list similar to the list you previously chose, except that Scouts BSA will be selected.Immediately under Scouts BSA you will see for options: Every Unit, Units Coming Soon, For Boys only, For Girls only. Choose for Boys only and you get a list of single gender male groups boys can join.Man that was easy.Now that I have that out of the way, let me say that this question demonstrates a huge misunderstanding of what BSA has done with integrating girls into all its yep oldesr programs, and of BSA's history and mission. Furthermore, it minimizes what happened within BSA and why this change happened in the first place.I have had conversations with several boys that are participating in Scouts BSA, many of them had the impression that their troop would be “invaded" by girls. Through those conversations I learn that for the younger boys they were taking their parents concerns and amplifying them. For the older boys they tended to misunderstand BSA's message. Girls are not “invading" existing troops, they are forming new troops that are single gender female groups that girls can join to gain the experiences that boys have enjoyed for 100 years.I have also spoken to several young women, including some that are girl scouts, and with the exception of one, they all they wish BSA had made this change sooner. That one had no brothers and wasn't interested in any form of Scouting.