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Fintech Focus For June 17, 2021
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 - 6:54pm | 1823Read More...Quote To Start The Day: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Source: Lao Tzu One Big Thing In Fintech: Outside of perhaps China, right now the big use case for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) seems to be just talking about them. Crypto is cool right now and...
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Fintech Focus For June 11, 2021
Thursday, June 10, 2021 - 5:51pm | 2464Read More...Quote To Start The Day: "As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in.” Source: Helen Keller One Big Thing In Fintech: The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision on Thursday recommended the highest possible risk weighting — 1,250% —...
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Fintech Focus For June 1, 2021
Monday, May 31, 2021 - 10:32pm | 2138Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “Showing is better than telling.” Source: Floyd Mayweather One Big Thing In Fintech: Ray Dalio, a billionaire investor and the founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has said that the digital yuan will be more competitive than the...
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Fintech Focus For May 24, 2021
Sunday, May 23, 2021 - 8:59pm | 1326Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” Source: Aristotle One Big Thing In Fintech: Robinhood...
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Fintech Focus For May 21, 2021
Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 7:11pm | 2697Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “A smile cures the wounding of a frown.” Source: William Shakespeare One Big Thing In Fintech: As part of a vision to democratize access to actionable and timely stock market information, Benzinga partnered with Nasdaq Inc. Apart from supporting firms like Apple...
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Fintech Focus For May 14, 2021
Thursday, May 13, 2021 - 5:16pm | 1839Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Source: Walt Disney One Big Thing In Fintech: An activist short seller has written a letter to the chief executive of insurance giant Lemonade with details of an “accidentally discovered”...
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Fintech Focus For May 11, 2021
Monday, May 10, 2021 - 5:24pm | 1400Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Source: Albert Einstein One Big Thing In Fintech: The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), one of the largest banks in the world by total assets, appears to have quietly allowed public users to activate...
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Fintech Focus For May 7, 2021
Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 6:32pm | 2177Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “Whatever you are, be a good one.” Source: Abraham Lincoln One Big Thing In Fintech: Metromile Inc, an insurance-focused fintech powered by data science and machine learning, announced Thursday it will allow policyholders the option to pay for insurance and...
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Fintech Focus For April 20, 2021
Monday, April 19, 2021 - 7:52pm | 2247Read More...Quote To Start The Day: "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Source: Thomas A. Edison One Big Thing In Fintech: Earlier this month, Bakkt, a digital-currency fintech that specializes in concurrency, rewards and...
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Fintech Focus For April 1, 2021
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 5:19pm | 1750Read More...Quote To Start The Day: International Business Machines Corp. expects 80% of its employees to work in a hybrid model after the pandemic, a setup that offers flexibility but also poses challenges for community-building and upward mobility for staff in a virtual workspace. The majority of workers...
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Fintech Focus For March 25, 2021
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - 9:36pm | 2283Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Brainpower doesn’t have a zip code. Source: Laura González-Estéfani One Big Thing In Fintech: A new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicates that asset management giant Fidelity is seeking to create a bitcoin exchange-traded fund...
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Fintech Focus For March 23, 2021
Monday, March 22, 2021 - 5:59pm | 1880Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. Source: Jim Carrey One Big Thing In Fintech: As soon as July, officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have been developing prototypes for a digital dollar...
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Not Just Bitcoin, Paypal's Vision Involves Central Bank Digital Currencies Too: What You Need To Know
Thursday, February 11, 2021 - 10:58pm | 520Read More...PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL) wants to shape the future financial system and central bank digital currencies are a part of its vision, as per CEO Dan Schulman. What Happened: Schulman — speaking at the payments company’s investor day on Thursday — said that “People...
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Fintech Focus For December 31, 2020
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 7:48pm | 1939Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings. Source: Jonathan Huie One Big Thing In Fintech: In a recent outlook for North American and European fintech, Fitch Ratings acknowledged that the sector fundamentals should remain resilient next year, despite pandemic-...
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Fintech Focus For August 17, 2020
Sunday, August 16, 2020 - 12:38pm | 1894Read More...Quote Of The Day: You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. - Maya Angelou Fintech Movers: Conversational AI or chatbot technology is proving a key technology, enabling customers to interact with their banks anytime, any place. - Tech Wire JPM to lead Consensys note...
