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Today kicks off the second round of the WeTrader Competition, hosted by the zero-commission online trading platform Webull. This week also marks the final earnings season of 2019 with a host of reports from the financial sector following the Columbus Day holiday. The  WeTrader Competition...

Friday’s market close marks the end of the first round of the WeTrader Paper Trading Competition, hosted by the zero-commission trading platform Webull. For those in the dark, the WeTrader Competition offers traders the chance to build their best-performing portfolio every week until the...

Emplify, an employee engagement solution, raised $15 million in an Series B funding round led by Edison Partners. “Emplify is scientifically tackling the most pertinent issue employers face today: building a culture that attracts, engages, and retains talent,” Ryan Ziegler, general...

Benzinga is highlighting nominees for the fifth annual Benzinga Global Fintech Awards ahead of the event Nov. 19 in New York City. One nominee is the Better.com, a mortgage lending fintech. Background Launched in 2016, the New York-based fintech digitizes the mortgage financing process from start...

Benzinga recently reported on a financial literacy competition jointly organized by education app Invstr and STEAM16, a New York City-based youth organization. The competition sought to leverage rap music to positively impacting the financial well-being of minorities and younger generations....

With more and more trading platforms and the growing allure of low-to-no-fee brokerages, new traders are confronted with a deluge of options when it comes to trading and investing. But lost in the promises of sleek interfaces and free shares for signing up is the fact that successful trading takes...

Benzinga is highlighting nominees for the fifth annual Benzinga Global Fintech Awards ahead of the event Nov. 19 in New York City. One nominee is the Fintech Open Source Foundation, or FINOS, a nonprofit for the promotion of open innovation in the financial services and tech spaces. Background...

Benzinga is highlighting nominees for the fifth annual Benzinga Global Fintech Awards ahead of the event Nov. 19 in New York City. One nominee is Become, a business funding marketplace where businesses can compare funding solutions and choose from offers. Background Founded in 2016 as Lending...

Benzinga is highlighting nominees for the fifth annual Benzinga Global Fintech Awards ahead of the event Nov. 19 in New York City. One nominee is Online Trading Academy, a trading and education community. Background Founded in 1997, the California-based trading education solution initially started...

The Benzinga events team heads to Chicago later this month to host the next iteration of the Cannabis Capital Conference, Oct. 22-23. For those attending: this will be the biggest and most educational conference to date, with speakers like Bruce Linton and Kevin Murphy. To improve the...

With more and more trading platforms and the growing allure of low-to-no-fee brokerages, new traders are confronted with a deluge of options when it comes to trading and investing. But lost in the promises of sleek interfaces and free shares for signing up is the fact that successful trading takes...

It has not been a good month for Ashton Kutcher’s investment portfolio. Amid the fallout from WeWork’s canceled IPO, Neighborly, another company partly funded by the actor and venture capitalist, has told its employees it can’t make its payroll. What Happened Anticipated...

Joe Percoco, co-founder at Titan, an actively managed robo-advisor, discussed increasing opportunities and returns for everyday investors in an interview with Benzinga.  Background In 2017, Titan was founded with the goal of financial innovation, leveraging best-in-class execution,...

StockTwits, a real-time financial communication and media network, has entered into the brokerage business with a commission-free trading platform, TradeApp. The development comes after a series of incumbent brokers eliminated commissions from their pricing models, drumming up interest and...

Today marks the official start of the WeTrader Competition, hosted by the zero-commission online trading platform Webull. The competition tasks traders to formulate their best paper trading strategy over the course of four weekly rounds for the chance to win an Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN...