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Fintech Focus For March 3, 2021
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - 9:57pm | 2042Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing. Source: Nassim Nicholas Taleb One Big Thing In Fintech: The electronic Chinese yuan is now being tested in cities such as Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing. No other major power is as far along with a...
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Fintech Focus For February 25, 2021
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - 9:06pm | 1647Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Technology is the best enabler of banking the unbanked. Source: Sultan Meghji One Big Thing In Fintech: An outage at the Federal Reserve is creating settlement issues for many financial institutions and exchanges. The Fed's service status page shows that most of its...
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Fintech Focus For February 23, 2021
Monday, February 22, 2021 - 7:15pm | 2037Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “Bitcoin prices have continued their meteoric rise with Tesla, BNY Mellon and Mastercard’s announcements of greater acceptance of cryptocurrencies,” JPMorgan said in a research note last week. “But fintech innovation and increased demand for digital...
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Fintech Focus For February 4, 2021
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 6:32pm | 1893Read More...Quote To Start The Day: We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. Source: Helen Keller One Big Thing In Fintech: Seedrs and Crowdcube were created as forward-thinking Fintechs leveraging technology to match investors with private firms in a sector traditionally dominated by...
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Fintech Focus For February 3, 2021
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 - 7:18pm | 2693Read More...Quote To Start The Day: To better align our incentives with those of our members, we will stop participating in the practice of Payment for Order Flow. Source: Public.com One Big Thing In Fintech: An “anonymously” led startup called Millions has raised a $3 million seed round...
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Fintech Focus For January 28, 2021
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 6:11pm | 2075Read More...Quote To Start The Day: I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Source: Bruce Lee One Big Thing In Fintech: StockCharts, the web's leading technical analysis and financial charting platform for online retail investors, today announced that they have eclipsed 1.6 million users...
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Fintech Focus For January 27, 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 7:57pm | 2806Read More...Quote To Start The Day: October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. Source: Mark Twain One Big Thing In Fintech: Greenwood Financial, a new challenger bank...
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Payments Processor Stripe Latest To Ban Trump Amid Burgeoning Tech Backlash
Monday, January 11, 2021 - 2:01am | 461Read More...Financial technology company Stripe Inc will no longer process Trump campaign payments, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. What Happened: The San Francisco, California-based company is halting payments processing for the Trump campaign for violating its policies against encouraging violence,...
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'Liquidity Jumping': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, December 13, 2020 - 5:35pm | 1495Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: After auctioning to new all-time highs, U.S. index futures moved back into balance. Remember This: “With Global Liquidity jumping by some US $20 trillion in 2020, or some 25% of World GDP, there is a lot to spend... Consider that following the 1930s...
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Fintech Focus For December 11, 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 5:51pm | 2295Read More...Quote To Start The Day: US President Donald Trump and his backers, having been stymied dozens of times by judges and elections officials across the country, are confident one last-ditch lawsuit will overturn his election loss. “All I ask for is people with wisdom and with courage, that...
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Fintech Focus For December 4, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 7:49pm | 2010Read More...Quote To Start The Day: One can look at a SPAC as the reverse of a traditional IPO. A SPAC goes public first—usually with a highly regarded executive team able to raise money from large institutional investors—with the intent to acquire a private company to put in its shell within...
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Fintech Focus For November 27, 2020
Thursday, November 26, 2020 - 7:02pm | 1695Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet. Source: James Mattis One Big Thing In Fintech: Robinhood, creator of the popular stock-trading app of the same name, announced on Friday that Vlad Tenev will be the company's sole chief executive,...
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Seth Klarman Bets Big On Bill Ackman, Other SPACs
Monday, November 16, 2020 - 3:00pm | 356Read More...Hedge fund manager Seth Klarman revealed several investments in SPACs during the third quarter, including a big bet on the largest SPAC from Bill Ackman. What Happened: A 13F filing from the third quarter reveals Klarman's Baupost Fund took a new 17.5 million-share stake in Pershing Square...
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Citron Explains Change Of Heart On Jumia Technologies, $100 Price Target
Monday, October 26, 2020 - 4:07pm | 523Read More...Citron Research has gone from bearish to bullish on Jumia Technologies, a Berlin-based e-commerce company operating in Africa. The Citron Bullish Case: Citron Research flagged problems at Jumia Technologies (NYSE: JMIA) in May 2019 that it said included financial discrepancies,...
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Fintech Focus For October 22, 2020
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 5:14pm | 2017Read More...Quote Of The Day: When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. - Paulo Coelho Fintech Movers: Coinbase received 1,914 requests for information in the first six months of 2020 alone. Nearly 60% of those came from state and federal agencies in the U.S.—...
