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Fintech Focus Roundup For September 12, 2020
Friday, September 11, 2020 - 4:45pm | 952Read More...S&P Global Market Intelligence, Snowflake Team Up What's Going On: On Sept. 9, S&P Global Market Intelligence announced a collaboration with cloud data platform Snowflake, to seamlessly deliver S&P’s Global industry-leading financial, textual, ESG, and alternative data. What...
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Fintech Focus For September 2, 2020
Tuesday, September 1, 2020 - 7:21pm | 2275Read More...Quote Of The Day: Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. - Mother Teresa Fintech Movers: Two community leaders from Oakland, California, with backgrounds in real estate and impact investing launched a new investment platform Tuesday to provide capital...
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Fintech Focus For August 19, 2020
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - 5:39pm | 1972Read More...Quote Of The Day: Central bank independence? Gone. - Ben Melkman Fintech Movers: Despite all the talk surrounding digital transformation and the changes that coronavirus has spurred on, not all traditional banks have achieved full digital transformation. - Banking Dive Wealth Builders taps...
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Fintech Focus For July 14, 2020
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 4:51pm | 1551Read More...Daily Perspective: If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. - Oprah Winfrey Fintech Movers: $64 billion was invested in North American startups (companies based in Canada and the United States)...
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Dropps Tests Limits Of A Lean, Clean Supply Chain
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 1:28pm | 1075Read More...Dropps is a familiar success story in the new wave of direct-to-consumer subscription business models: The sensible packaging and elegant design of the laundry and dish detergent pods are unmistakable. And while Dropps' commitment to environmentally friendly detergent formulas and eco-responsible...
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Fintech Focus For July 7, 2020
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 10:19am | 1668Read More...Daily Perspective: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the result of other people’s thinking. - Steve Jobs Fintech Movers: On March 1, 8% of U.S. Square sellers were effectively cashless; 54...
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Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead: 'How Long Can Tech Lead?'
Sunday, June 28, 2020 - 6:53pm | 2192Read More...The Last Week In A Nutshell What Happened: “The S&P 500 is up 1.3% month-to-date (through June 25), but has struggled to push higher as it moves towards its previous peak,” said Lindsey Bell, chief investment strategist for Ally Financial, Inc-owned (NYSE: ALLY) Ally Invest. “...
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How Climate Change Will Drive A Fundamental Reshaping of Finance
Sunday, February 16, 2020 - 4:50pm | 895Read More...Extreme weather conditions and natural disasters have swept through the world this year. From bushfires in Australia to flooding in the U.K., the climate catastrophe is pushing sustainable investing to the forefront. BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) CEO Larry Fink said concerns about climate change will drive...
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Direxion Launches Three New ETFs For Long-Term Investors
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 3:38pm | 592Read More...Direxion announced on Wednesday the launch of three new ETFs for 2020 meant to appeal to long-term investors. These new ETFs are the Direxion MSCI USA ESG - Leaders vs. Laggards ETF (NYSE: ESNG) Direxion Flight to Safety Strategy ETF (NYSE: FLYT) and Direxion S&P 500 High Minus...
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Know What ESG Is? A Report Suggests It Is Going To Start To Impact Trucking
Monday, January 13, 2020 - 12:23pm | 1414Read More...ESG is another upcoming three-letter abbreviation that will impact the trucking industry, according to a recent report from Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). ESG may sort of rhyme with ELD, but it stands for environmental, social and governance. It is a growing but still somewhat vague standard that...
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The ABCs Of ESG: Reflecting Today's Investor Values
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 2:36pm | 1078Read More...What do the climate activist Greta Thunberg and the failed WeWork IPO have in common? For corporate officers in the current economic environment, the link between a hard-partying entrepreneur and a teen activist who’s grabbed the mantle of leadership on raising concerns about climate change...
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How To Bring Some Virtue To Your Bond Portfolio
Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - 12:45pm | 515Read More...Amid the avalanche of new equity-based exchange traded funds adhering to environmental, social and governance (ESG) philosophies, investors have been wondering when more ESG fixed income funds will hit the market. Some of have been around for a little bit and some of those products have been decent...
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iShares Adds Another ESG ETF
Monday, May 13, 2019 - 7:58am | 474Read More...The universe of environmental, social and governance (ESG) exchange traded funds continues to grow. Last week, BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK), parent company of iShares, added to its roster of ESG funds with the debut of the iShares ESG MSCI USA Leaders ETF (NASDAQ: SUSL). What Happened With the debut...
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A New Force Among ESG ETFs
Saturday, March 9, 2019 - 5:19pm | 483Read More...Exchange traded funds focusing on environmental, social and governance, or ESG, investing principles have been around awhile, but many of these funds have struggled to captivate investors' attention and assets. The result is that ESG ETFs represent a scant percentage of the growing,...
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Another Green Bond ETF Is Here
Friday, November 16, 2018 - 1:34pm | 490Read More...The universe of fixed income exchange traded funds following socially responsible investing principles gained another member Thursday when BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) launched an ETF dedicated to green bonds. The iShares Global Green Bond ETF (NASDAQ: BGRN) is the latest bond ETF to tap into...
