Fintech Focus For August 13, 2020

Daily Perspective: Accept my money, or die. - Kublai Khan

Fintech Movers: I wouldn't be surprised to see exchanges charging for [crypto] data ... like exchanges used to not charge for data in U.S. equities. - Ronan Ryan

• Huntington selects BillGo as partner.
• Cash App tests new borrowing tech.
• TradingScreen, Imagine partner up.
• SimCorp launches Dimension tech.
• BlackRock, T.Rowe invest in Trumid.
• Lending fintech SuperSim raised $5M.
• Nacha adds Visa to Phixius program.
• BondEvalue, Northern Trust eye DLT.

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Watch Out For This: A federal appeals court is letting investors keep roughly $1 billion they received from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. after its 2008 bankruptcy filing triggered the liquidation of dozens of collateralized debt obligations. - WSJ

• Retail chains abandon Manhattan, NY.
• Jamie Dimon: PPP saved 35M jobs.
• Lessons from Buffett’s annual letters.
• Startups over-prepared for pandemic.
• COVID and the escape room industry.
• Don’t use Chrome Store for extensions.

Market Moving Headline: Analysts at the BlackRock Investment Institute announced they were raising their holdings of European equities to overweight, citing "the region’s robust public health infrastructure and a galvanized policy response." - Axios

• The impacts of unemployment benefits.
• Oil demand faces bigger virus shock.
• Sony moves to develop EV concepts.
• Gundlach predicts Trump will win 2020.
• Ford recalls 488K vehicles over brakes.
• Uber may shut down California service.
• Triple-inverse ETN rises by $10,000.