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Fintech Focus For January 8, 2021
Thursday, January 7, 2021 - 6:42pm | 1594Quote To Start The Day: Elon Musk, the outspoken entrepreneur behind Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, is now the richest person on the planet. A 4.8% rally in the electric carmaker’s share price Thursday boosted Musk past Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a...
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Fintech Focus For December 23, 2020
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 - 7:20pm | 1714Quote To Start The Day: During the darkest days of the Model 3 program, I reached out to Tim Cook to discuss the possibility of Apple acquiring Tesla (for 1/10 of our current value). He refused to take the meeting. Source: Elon Musk One Big Thing In Fintech: Jack Miller, head of trading at Baird,...
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Fintech Focus For December 2, 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 6:02pm | 2069Quote To Start The Day: It’s possible to transcend anything that doesn’t kill you. Source: David Goggins One Big Thing In Fintech: The digitization of financial markets in Africa will continue to accelerate as local investors seek diversified access to higher-yield financial products....
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Fintech Focus For October 13, 2020
Monday, October 12, 2020 - 4:57pm | 2271Quote Of The Day: We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus. - David Nabarro Fintech Movers: Hackers have stolen $22 million from users of the popular bitcoin wallet Electrum by enticing people to install fake software updates. -...
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Fintech Focus For October 8, 2020
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 5:07pm | 2475Quote Of The Day: It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. - Aristotle Fintech Movers: [Bank of America] said it applied for 415 patents this year for innovations regarding money transfer, bill payments, ATM transaction pre-staging, check verification using augmented...
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Fintech Focus For September 9, 2020
Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 6:02pm | 2210Quote Of The Day: We have seen peak rebound. - Joachim Fels Fintech Movers: Defi is not even close to the ICO hype bubble level yet. Bubbles are usually the result of a euphoric retail crowd running ahead of itself. - Coindesk BSP pushes digital bank framework. Policygenius a fast-growing fintech...
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Fintech Focus For September 3, 2020
Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - 6:16pm | 1857Quote Of The Day: If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. - Milton Berle Fintech Movers: Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem has amassed at least 166 startups and protocols across 12 verticals, which The Block has mapped out. - Block Bitfinex adds new perpetual contracts. How to earn 7% on...
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Fintech Focus For August 20, 2020
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 5:37pm | 2239Quote Of The Day: Whoever is happy will make others happy too. - Anne Frank Fintech Movers: There is a large opportunity for Google to leverage its massive direct consumer relationships to attract [banks] to sign up for co-branded checking accounts. For many of the bank and credit union partners,...
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Fintech Focus For August 3, 2020
Monday, August 3, 2020 - 10:46am | 1830Daily Perspective: Stay hungry, stay foolish. - Steve Jobs Fintech Movers: The ECB says EU financial institutions have an over-optimistic view of their IT resilience and resistance to cyber threats. - Finextra US fintech funding on pace to excel. Tradeweb calls on Nasdaq tech. Cuban-backed...
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Fintech Focus For July 7, 2020
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 9:19am | 1668Daily Perspective: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the result of other people’s thinking. - Steve Jobs Fintech Movers: On March 1, 8% of U.S. Square sellers were effectively cashless; 54...
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Bitfinex Launches Pulse, A Social Network For Trading
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 11:06am | 218Bitfinex, a digital asset trading platform, formally announced the launch of Bitfinex Pulse, a place where traders can exchange ideas regarding bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The new feature will allow customers to publish content and rank on a leaderboard. In addition, Pulse postings can be...
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Bitfinex Addresses Institutional Demand With New Sub-Account Feature
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 4:08pm | 207Bitfinex, a digital asset trading platform, formally announced the addition of a sub-account feature which allows users to set up multiple trading accounts under one master account. “There is a huge pent-up demand among institutional traders for a more sophisticated way of accessing crypto...
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As Bitcoin Holds $8,000, Bitfinex Offers Real-Time Data Insights To Reduce Noise For Traders
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 2:24pm | 189Bitfinex, a digital asset trading platform, alongside Santiment, a provider of digital asset metrics and insights, will offer traders 30-day trial access to data-driven crypto market analysis and investing tools within the Bitfinex trading platform. In a statement on the development, Paolo Ardoino...
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Study: Price Manipulation Was Behind Half Of Bitcoin's Historic Run
Monday, November 4, 2019 - 12:06pm | 491Between March 2017 and March 2018, the media affixed various adjectives to bitcoin’s run: impressive, amazing, historic. Now it’s adding a new descriptor: deceptive. A new study said an unknown trader on the Bitfinex exchange manipulated Bitcoin’s price so sharply that the scheme...
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Bitfinex Presents Unus Sed Leo Transparency Initiative
Friday, June 14, 2019 - 1:06pm | 409Launch of Burn Mechanism Will See iFinex Revenues Used To Buy Back Tokens Bitfinex is proud to announce the launch of the UNUS SED LEO Transparency Initiative, built around a real-time token burn redemption mechanism. The UNUS SED LEO token was launched on May 22nd following a successful 1bn...