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Taylor Swift Boosts Travis Kelce's Popularity: Stocks That Could Benefit From The Love Story
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:40am | 640NFL star Travis Kelce's romance with musician Taylor Swift could be a win for brand partners in terms of endorsements and deals. What Happened: A new Morning Consult poll shows that awareness and favorability for the Kansas City Chiefs tight end have increased over the last year. This is due...
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Fintech Focus For November 10, 2020
Monday, November 9, 2020 - 6:42pm | 2688Quote Of The Day: A dying man can do nothing easy. - Benjamin Franklin Fintech Movers: The rise of new financial technologies will call for new approaches to regulation, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester said Monday. - WSJ UK fintech industry braces for Brexit. Mastercard...
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Fintech Focus For October 28, 2020
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 - 5:52pm | 2346Quote Of The Day: Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie Fintech Movers: UBS Group AG plans to invest $200 million of its own money in fintech companies over the medium term in a push to further digitize its services and find new ways to engage with clients. - Bloomberg Benzinga...
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4 Earnings Highlights From Companies On OTC Markets
Friday, August 28, 2020 - 2:29pm | 707The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. The June earnings season is just about complete. Below are earnings highlights from four mid-to-large-cap companies that don’t trade...
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2020 Might Be The Year Of The Cybercriminal: What Does It Mean For Cannabis And Crypto Industries?
Monday, February 3, 2020 - 1:15pm | 966By Experian’s Michael Bruemmer. With more than 3,800 reported data breaches (that’s about 4 billion records compromised) in the first half of 2019, businesses of all sizes are certainly on guard for new and different potential threats that could hit in 2020, if they aren’t...
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Video: One Click Home Buying and Beyond, The Future Of Real Estate
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 10:45am | 477The fallout from the 2008 financial crisis still looms large in the contemporary home buying industry. While major regulatory changes have made lending policies more stringent, fintech companies are looking to make the process of home ownership more streamlined and appealing to both buyers and...
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Will The Coming Subprime Auto Loan Calamity Affect Tesla?
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 1:32pm | 1264The deterioration in U.S. auto credit is expected to continue in 2017, Fitch Ratings said in a report released in early April. Specifically, the firm sees auto asset-backed securities portfolios at risk. With subprime loan saga rearing its ugly head once again, auto lenders, as well as automakers...
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Fallout Of Record High Gap Between New, Used Car Loans For Auto Lenders
Friday, March 3, 2017 - 3:27pm | 585Buyers of new cars are now straddled with a record high amount of loan, thus widening the gap between the average loan amount for a new vehicle and used vehicle. Record Differential The latest "State of the Automotive Finance Market" report from Experian released on Thursday showed that average...
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Auto Industry Shifting From New To Used? CarMax Consistently Outperforms During Car Stock Weakness
Monday, October 24, 2016 - 3:22pm | 396New car sales have no doubt been on a hot streak. Coming off a record year in 2015, and what looked to be shaping up as another historic industry, there are now threats that the trend has since reversed. A combination of higher cash incentives and 0 percent financing to entice consumers have cut...
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A Concerning Number Of Americans Are Behind On Their Retirement Savings
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 1:35pm | 456A survey commissioned by Experian plc (ADR) (OTC: EXPGY), Get Rich Slowly and other personal finance blogs asked Americans if they are on track to comfortably retire. A recap of survey was posted on Get Rich Slowly and showed a concerning 71 percent of Americans are behind on their retirement...
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Jamie Dimon Warns About Auto Loans As They Hit New Record Highs
Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 5:14pm | 290CNBC featured a short segment looking into auto loans. The U.S. has set a new record “for borrowing more, and taking longer than ever to pay for a new vehicle.” According to Experian data, for the first time in history, the average auto loan has surpassed $30,000, the average...
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Money Borrowed By Car, Truck And SUV Buyers Tops $1 Trillion For First Time
Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 11:50am | 256CNBC's auto expert Phil LeBeau reported on Thursday that car buyers raked in $1.005 trillion in auto loans during the first quarter of 2016. LeBeau noted that the total car loans topped the $1 trillion mark for the first time ever. He attributed the surge in auto loans to the auto industry hitting...
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How Retirees Should Handle Credit
Monday, November 2, 2015 - 11:45am | 879Credit is like muscle – the more efficiently you use it, the better it is; the more you abuse it, the more you lose it. And unfortunately, there is a misconception that if your credit is bad once you retire, you are financially sunk. However, that is not the case. While it may seem...
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Collaboration Brings New Solution To Mobile Wallets
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 8:40am | 607As mobile wallets' popularity increases and cybersecurity attacks occur with exponential frequency and severity, innovation has come from a rarely seen source: information sharing across sectors. Security industry competitors have joined forces to create the MIDAS Alliance, a unique group...
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TransUnion Rates Our Credit Scores, Now The Market Rates It
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 1:25pm | 1043TransUnion Corp. (NYSE: TRU), a global risk and information provider, could be one of the biggest IPOs in 2015. The company hopes to raise $782 million this Thursday, June 25. TransUnion expects to issue 29.5 million shares between $21 and $23 per share. At that range, the company would have a...