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The global cannabis industry took two big steps forward this week. On Oct. 31, Mexico’s Supreme Court said the laws that ban recreational weed are unconstitutional, essentially opening the door for a potential legalization of pot in the future. The second major development took place across...

The Benzinga Fintech Summit is a gathering of the top leaders in brokerage, payments and cryptocurrencies in San Francisco Nov. 14. Ahead of the Summit, Benzinga is profiling fintech thought leaders who are speaking at the event. For this installment, Benzinga interviewed Mark Li, Partner of BPM...

ClickSWITCH CEO Cale Johnston spoke to Benzinga about his company and the role its platform for transitioning banking customers from one account to another plays in the fintech sector. The Company Started in 2014, ClickSWITCH was created to solve the problem of switching account holders’...

Benzinga is rolling out the Fintech Focus podcast, a series of interviews with leaders in the fintech space. Our third episode features Andrew Jamison, founder and CEO of Extend, a fintech startup that sells technology to credit card issuers that allows their corporate card clients to share their...

For an options trader, information is constantly in play. Quantcha provides a suite of tools to aid traders with searching, filtering and analyzing options. The company recently launched Quantcha Unlimited to help options traders profit by eliminating commission fees. Benzinga spoke with...

The mass sell-off in the market over the last few sessions has reinforced a long-held lesson for traders and investors: even the hottest sectors are prone to corrections when the broader market sells off. This is the case with cannabis. You can make a strong argument that no area of the market has...

Within the fintech space, several companies have developed new ways to trade, invest and bank. Alpaca is among the first to design a platform to combine algorithms, trading bots and artificial intelligence for investors. The Company The startup offers the world’s first commission-...

Merida Capital Partners announced Danny Moses, a private investor and entrepreneur best known for his role as a trader navigating the global financial crisis as chronicled in Adam McKay’s Oscar-winning movie "The Big Short," has been named the third independent member of Merida...

The Benzinga Fintech Summit is a gathering of the top leaders in brokerage, payments and cryptocurrencies in San Francisco Nov. 14. Ahead of the Summit, Benzinga is profiling fintech thought leaders who are speaking at the event. For this installment, Benzinga interviewed Nancy Selph, senior vice...

General Electric (NYSE: GE) investors may have their fingers on the "sell" button when the company reports Q3 earnings Tuesday. John Inch, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Gordon Haskett, recently joined Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep to discuss what GE investors can...

Michele Schneider, MarketGauge's director of trading education and research, joined Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep trading show earlier this month to discuss her "Modern Family" index, which she created to identify buy and sell signals in the market.  Modern Family...

Want to be a full-time gamer? Detroit is the best place to make it in competitive gaming according to a new study. To be considered a full-time gamer, one needs to make an average of $69,119 per year and have 1,920 followers on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s's Twitch, according to Value...

Gallup this week released a new report showing a record-high support for cannabis legalization in the United States, with 66 percent of Americans now favoring legal weed. Interestingly, even 53 percent of Republicans seem to support legalization. In addition, Benzinga learned the Republic of...

Two Stanford University scientists, Dr. Jonathan Rothbard and Professor Lawrence Steinman, announced this week they've joined forces to launch the medical cannabis company Katexco Pharmaceuticals. Katexco will be focused on developing a drug that exploits endocannabinoid and nicotine...