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Fintech Focus Roundup For December 12, 2020
Friday, December 11, 2020 - 5:59pm | 1787Webull CEO On Crypto Assets, Innovation What Happened: Anthony Denier, CEO of Webull Financial, recently joined "The Raz Report," where he discussed Webull’s expansion into cryptocurrency trading. Denier said Webull is making cryptocurrency a priority for the online trading...
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Fintech Focus For December 9, 2020
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 5:34pm | 1990Quote To Start The Day: Webull, founded by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. alum Wang Anquan, has increased its roster of brokerage clients by about tenfold this year, to more than 2 million, by offering free stock trades with a slick online interface. While that’s still a fraction of the more...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For November 21, 2020
Saturday, November 21, 2020 - 9:21am | 1462Nasdaq's Commitment To Fintech Innovation The Major Theme: In times of crisis, innovation gains traction. That's according to Brandon Tepper, the vice president of Americas Sales for Nasdaq’s Investment Intelligence business. Through his various roles at the world’s first...
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Unpacking Nasdaq's Commitment To Fintech Innovation
Friday, November 20, 2020 - 11:46am | 952In times of crisis, innovation gains traction. That's according to Brandon Tepper, the vice president of Americas Sales for Nasdaq Inc’s (NASDAQ: NDAQ) Investment Intelligence business. Through his various roles at the world’s first electronic stock market, over the last 20 ...
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Fintech Focus For November 20, 2020
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 6:41pm | 2302Quote Of The Day: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball Fintech Movers: Cashless payments were on the rise before the pandemic hit, and now, eight months into its grip on the U.S., their use is...
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How Financial Markets Are Becoming More Diverse: 'The Retail Investor Looks Like Me'
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 2:50pm | 569During the Benzinga Global Fintech Awards, a day of dealmaking, networking, and recognition in the financial technology space, Benzinga's Brent Slava presented the following discussion on the feature requirements of new retail traders. What The Retail Investor Looks Like: Times are changing,...
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Meet The Winners Of The 2020 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 6:50pm | 765Benzinga, a leading news and data platform, in partnership with financial data and insights platform Envestnet | Yodlee, held the sixth annual Benzinga Global Fintech Awards Tuesday — a day of dealmaking, networking and recognition in the financial technology space. The...
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Online Brokers See Tech Issues As Stock Market Rallies
Monday, November 9, 2020 - 10:56am | 450The massive rally in the stock markets Monday is causing problems for many online stock brokers. Brokers Down: User reports indicate that financial service firms Merrill Lynch, Fidelity, Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade are having problems, according to Downdetector. A user on Twitter also said...
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Fintech Focus For August 10, 2020
Sunday, August 9, 2020 - 8:22pm | 2244Daily Perspective: Only the paranoid survive. - Andy Grove Fintech Movers: Goldman Sachs is seriously considering its own cryptocurrency, possibly a stablecoin, as it significantly expands its digital assets team and appoints a new head to spearhead efforts. - Coindesk Capital markets DLT on cusp...
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Hashtag Investing Social Media Platform Introduces New Mobile Apps
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 1:06pm | 220Hashtag Investing, a social community for stock investors, formally announced the launch of an iOS and Android app, increasing accessibility to its community of over 4,000 investors. What Happened? Hashtag Investing is a social network for stock investors. As part of a vision to increase...
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Webull's CEO Talks Tesla's Rise To $1,000, Nikola's Arrival
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 5:45pm | 621Benzinga recently got some insight from Anthony Denier, CEO of the commission-free trading platform Webull, to gain a better understanding of how some of the firm's 11 million clients are looking at Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) after the stock hit the $1,000 per share milestone. Denier On...
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How 3 Major Retail Brokerages Are Embracing The Changing Industry
Friday, November 22, 2019 - 10:02am | 765The retail brokerage industry is in a state of flux. Between the industry-wide transition to zero commissions, to Charles Schwab's (NYSE: SCHW) interest in buying TD Ameritrade (NASDAQ: AMTD), there is a lot of uncertainty about the future of the traditional brokerage business model. But...
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These Are The Winners Of The Inaugural WeTrader Paper Trading Competition
Monday, November 11, 2019 - 10:53am | 950The WeTrader Paper Trading Competition , a 5-week paper trading contest hosted by the zero-commission trading platform Webull, has officially ended. Here’s a look at how the 83 contestants—the top 10 portfolios from each weekly round of the contest and 50 of the most popular...
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These Are The Stocks Being Traded By Some Of The Top Traders On Webull
Friday, November 8, 2019 - 11:44am | 887The WeTrader Paper Trading Competition is a 5-week paper trading contest hosted by the zero-commission trading platform Webull. The 70 contestants—the top 10 portfolios from each weekly round of the contest and 50 of the most popular participants—are vying for the grand prize of either...
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Trader Toolkit: A Map For Those Feeling Lost In Headline Risk
Monday, November 4, 2019 - 9:19am | 782With the ever-increasing number of trading platforms and the growing allure of low-to-no-fee brokerages, new traders are confronted with a deluge of options when it comes to trading and investing. But lost in the promises of sleek interfaces and free shares for signing up is the fact that...