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Fintech Focus For June 14, 2021
Sunday, June 13, 2021 - 10:13pm | 1829Read More...Quote To Start The Day: "[C]ost-push inflation will be the primary driver of inflation through the remainder of this year and into next. The Fed is betting on this, but if it is wrong, it will be because a wage-price spiral developed, although that is unlikely to occur until the economy has...
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Fintech Focus For March 15, 2021
Sunday, March 14, 2021 - 7:50pm | 1808Read More...Quote To Start The Day: The first step is you have to say that you can. Source: Will Smith One Big Thing In Fintech: The fintech space is rapidly maturing. Investors are backing huge deals, with Q1’21 already setting the record for total mega-rounds in a quarter. It has also seen the highest...
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Fintech Focus For March 11, 2021
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 10:42pm | 1745Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. Source: Tim Ferriss One Big Thing In Fintech: A provisional report from data and research group CB Insights indicates that we’re not merely in a warm period for fintech funding — we are in a period of...
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Fintech Focus For February 15, 2021
Monday, February 15, 2021 - 12:20am | 2274Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Do not confuse motion and progress. Source: Alfred A. Montapert One Big Thing In Fintech: More than 90M millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Millennials have overtaken the baby boomers to become the largest...
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Fintech Focus For February 8, 2021
Sunday, February 7, 2021 - 8:25pm | 2192Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Excessive determinism is almost always the biggest enemy of stability. This seeming contradiction is behind the concept of metastability which captures the mode of market functioning in the last years. Metastability is what seems stable, but is not — a stable waiting...
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Fintech Focus For January 6, 2021
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 - 10:16pm | 1927Read More...Quote To Start The Day: If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right. Source: Henry Ford One Big Thing In Fintech: Affirm founder and CEO Max Levchin is poised to join Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman on the billionaires list, becoming the latest...
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Fintech Focus For January 4, 2021
Sunday, January 3, 2021 - 12:58pm | 1446Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Source: Oprah Winfrey One Big Thing In Fintech: The banking industry has not been spared from the impact of Covid-19. Bank of America, for one, saw profits drop 16% year-over-year (YoY) in Q3’20 to $4.9B...
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Fintech Focus For December 21, 2020
Sunday, December 20, 2020 - 11:32pm | 1674Read More...Quote To Start The Day: When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. Source: Paulo Coelho One Big Thing In Fintech: Seed and angel deals are projected to fall to 37% of total deal activity in 2020, down from 42% in 2019. We expect Series B rounds to finish...
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Fintech Focus For November 16, 2020
Sunday, November 15, 2020 - 10:15pm | 1771Read More...Quote Of The Day: If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. - Jim Rohn Fintech Movers: The most well-funded US fintech startup is SoFi, with $2.5B in disclosed equity funding. The San Francisco-based personal finance platform offers an array of financial...
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Fintech Focus For November 9, 2020
Monday, November 9, 2020 - 1:47am | 2438Read More...Quote Of The Day: We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Ana’s Nin Fintech Movers: Major finance players are using distributed ledger technology to reshape the capital markets infrastructure that powers the trade of stocks, bonds, and other securities. - CB Insights...
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Fintech Focus For October 1, 2020
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 7:01pm | 2198Read More...Quote Of The Day: Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Fintech Movers: Insurtech has emerged as a major draw for VC investment, with the space attracting more than $6B in funding last year. - CB Insights Iownit intros a DLT for private markets. How...
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Fintech Focus For September 17, 2020
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 6:17pm | 2478Read More...Quote Of The Day: It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. - Theodore Roosevelt Fintech Movers: The global fintech sector faces an "existential crisis", says McKinsey, as sources of funding dry up. - Finextra What’s the outlook for crypto brokerages....
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CB Insights Looks At How US Banks Bet On A Fintech Future
Monday, August 26, 2019 - 1:13pm | 225Read More...U.S. banks aim to leverage fintech in the payments, financial markets, data and blockchain spaces. “In 2019 YTD, U.S. banks have participated in 24 equity deals to fintech companies. This follows a record 2018, where U.S. banks backed 45 equity deals to fintech startups -- a 180% increase...
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12 Tech Trends To Watch Over The Next 12 Months
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 3:00pm | 1119Read More...The evolution of technology spawns new generations of products and creates new markets for innovators. Here's a compilation of top tech predictions for 2019 based on separate reports from CB Insights and Loup Ventures. 1. Data Protection Becomes Geopolitical Issue With increasing incidences...
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10 Of The Largest Retail Bankruptcies Since 2016
Saturday, October 20, 2018 - 4:13pm | 794Read More...Sears Holdings Corp (NASDAQ: SHLD)'s years-long struggle in a tough retail environment culminated in the department store filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. A Chapter 11 bankruptcy facilitates reorganization of a company through a plan to keep its business alive and pay...
