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BlackRock Forays Into Mutual-Fund Business In China: WSJ
Saturday, August 29, 2020 - 8:59am | 371What Happened: BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK), the New York-based asset management firm gets the nod from the regulators to initiate its mutual-fund business operations in China, WSJ reported. Chinese Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) approved the joint application of Blackrock and...
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Fintech Focus For August 24, 2020
Sunday, August 23, 2020 - 12:13am | 2395Quote Of The Day: Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson Fintech Movers: A group of Congressional lawmakers have sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that urges the U.S. tax agency to write policy that does not...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For August 22, 2020
Friday, August 21, 2020 - 10:46pm | 1347Robinhood Valued At $11.2B After Series G What Happened: Robinhood, a retail trading platform that offers investors commission-free stock, ETF and options trading and high-yield savings accounts, announced a $200-million Series G funding round Monday at an $11.2-billion valuation that was led by...
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JPMorgan Chase, Commonwealth Announce 2-Year Initiative To Further Democratize Finance
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 7:45am | 280JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) and Commonwealth, a financial security nonprofit, formally announced a two-year initiative to address the challenges and opportunities emerging technologies present to people of lower- and moderate-income. What Happened? COVID-19 disrupted finance and accelerated...
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JPMorgan New Asia Pacific Chief Appointed
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 4:39am | 287JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has named Filippo Gori to be its new Asia Pacific (APAC) CEO. What Happened Gori will head strategy and operations in 17 markets in the APAC region. He will retain his present positions as head of banking in Asia Pacific and as the Hong Kong chief executive,...
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JPMorgan To Stop Financing Fossil Fuel Projects In The Arctic
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 6:11am | 433JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) will stop giving out direct loans for fossil fuel extraction projects in the Arctic, the company announced Monday. What Happened The New York-based banking giant would also stop giving out loans to companies who make the majority of their revenues from coal, the...
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JPMorgan Set To Cut 1% Of All Jobs In Consumer Unit: Report
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 10:44pm | 371Investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is cutting about 1% of all its staff in the consumer unit to reduce costs, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. What Happened Bloomberg didn't provide the exact number of employees at risk of losing their jobs but said the number would be in...
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JPMorgan Raises CEO's Pay To $31.5M After Record 2019 Profit
Friday, January 24, 2020 - 5:36am | 288The Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Jamie Dimon is getting a 1.6% raise to $31.5, following the bank’s record earnings in 2019, according to Bloomberg. What Happened Dimon's package includes $25 million in stock compensation, $1.5 million in salary, and a...
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Goldman Sachs To Only Serve As IPO Underwriter For Companies With 'Diverse' Boards
Friday, January 24, 2020 - 4:54am | 374Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) will not serve as an underwriter for any company's initial public offering that doesn't have at least one "diverse" member on its board. What Happened "Starting on July [1] in the [United States] and Europe, we'...
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There Will Be Diesel Reaction To IMO 2020, But It's Mostly Muted: JP Morgan
Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 3:13pm | 799A recent report by JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) sees a diesel market reaction coming as a result of IMO 2020, but its tone and forecast are restrained and hint at a market that is on the verge of any sort of spike in prices. In an exhaustive 100-plus-page report published by the team led by...
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Banks In Focus This Week As JPMorgan , Goldman Sachs, Others Report Tuesday
Monday, October 14, 2019 - 9:48am | 2186This week, it gets real. Real in the sense that investors will finally have something solid to trade on and not just the latest back and forth around trade talks with China—like the one that helped spike stocks on Friday and now has them looking softer (see more below). The backbone of the...
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Green Investment Will Police Shipping Development Says JP Morgan
Monday, June 3, 2019 - 1:09pm | 548Investors are increasingly looking at potential investments and analyzing the environmental impact of an investment and that will make capital flow to the companies "that are doing the right things," said Andrian Roman Dacy, the Chief Investment Officer of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM), on...
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JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo Kick Off Earnings Season With Strong Q1 Results
Friday, April 12, 2019 - 9:56am | 2224Earnings season started with a bang early Friday as two major U.S. banks shared Q1 results and the market reacted positively. Big beats from JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC) really help set a positive tone for earnings overall. JPMorgan Chase earned...
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Challenges Stack Up As JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Citigroup Prepare To Report
Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 10:41am | 1356Lower trading volume. Falling mortgage rates. An inverted Treasury yield curve. A slowing U.S. and global economy. The odds seem pretty stacked against big banks on multiple fronts as earnings season starts tomorrow. Making things even more challenging, many U.S. big banks enter Q1 reporting time...
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Startup Angels Debuts Marketplace Platform: 'We're Trying To Make It Easier For Potential Investors'
Thursday, October 5, 2017 - 5:21pm | 1021An $11 trillion opportunity for venture capital funding exists in plain sight, according to Startup Angels CEO Leslie Jump — and she has a new fintech platform designed to make the connection. The venture capital space in 2016 totaled about $100 billion, Jump told Benzinga. Her Washington D.C...