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Quote To Start The Day: “Man is the cruelest animal.” Source: Friedrich Nietzsche One Big Thing In Fintech: In addition to new venues, more new order types are likely in the US equity market this year. The US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the introduction of periodic...

Quote To Start The Day: “When someone tells me something can’t be done, I think there’s always a will and a way.” Source: Randall Kaplan One Big Thing In Fintech: One driving force behind innovation is disruption. That’s according to Allison Beer, the Chief Product...

Quote To Start The Day: I think the volume of SPACs is going to certainly outweigh the number of IPOs, but the IPOs are going to be bigger deals. Source: Patrick Healey One Big Thing In Fintech: Titan, an asset manager for retail investors, announced Tuesday it raised a $12.5 million Series A...

Quote To Start The Day: Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Source: Robert Louis Stevenson One Big Thing In Fintech: Banking is one of the key drivers of economies worldwide. Core banking typically includes deposit and loan and credit processing...

Quote To Start The Day: “Gamification is controversial; in some ways, it’s a good thing because you’re lowering the barrier to entry, and making people more motivated to participate in something that’s perceived as a game.” “But, it can be dangerous. If you...

Quote To Start The Day: Robinhood Markets, GameStop Corp. and hedge funds are all on the wish list that House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters is assembling for a hearing that will dig into the Reddit-fueled stock trading that has shocked Wall Street and lawmakers. “I’m...

Quote To Start The Day: “This is not the market participants' problem, they paid to play. It’s the broker’s problem, from an operational standpoint, to make sure that these things are in check.” Source: Kris Sidial One Big Thing In Fintech: Year 2021 will be all about...

Quote To Start The Day: The greatest wealth is to live content with little. Source: Plato One Big Thing In Fintech: In financial services, the concept of “know your customer” (KYC) is at the heart of establishing trusted relationships with clientele and strategic partners, while...

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-...

Quote To Start The Day: Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Source: Maya Angelou One Big Thing In Fintech: Instead of focusing on growth at all costs, fintech startups have been drawing a path to profitability. It doesn’t mean that they’ll have a positive bottom line at the...

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...

Quote To Start The Day: Coming hard on the heels of the trade war, the Covid shock will intensify pressure for the diversification and localization of supply chains — just not yet. A year spent in emergency response mode is not a year when projects requiring detailed planning, significant...

Quote To Start The Day: Whatever you do, do it well. Source: Walt Disney One Big Thing In Fintech: Business information provider S&P Global Inc agreed on Monday to pay $44 billion in stock to acquire IHS Markit Ltd in the year’s biggest acquisition that will create a new data powerhouse...