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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 November 3, 2020
Monday, November 2, 2020 - 7:02pm | 2173Quote Of The Day: I’d start a war just to illustrate the value of peace. - Clint Eastwood Fintech Movers: According to the Amex Trendex: Holiday Business Spend Survey, 78% of small- and mid-size business owners and financial decision makers said payment flexibility is important during this...
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Fintech Focus For October 29, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 6:32pm | 2855Quote Of The Day: The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon Fintech Movers: The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), the leading research institute covering the global Fintech sector, has partnered with the World Bank on a study reviewing the...
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Fintech Focus For October 26, 2020
Sunday, October 25, 2020 - 11:22pm | 1955Quote Of The Day: Love the life you live. Live the life you love. - Bob Marley Fintech Movers: As fintech companies mature, many no longer aspire to be the best at one thing. That could mean not only new revenue sources for fintech companies, but also additional venture capital to startups and...
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Xformative Payment Systems Brings Cloud-Native Modularity To Finance
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 8:25am | 718Xformative Payment Systems, a fintech geared towards cloud-native payments, was one of 11 startups to join Mastercard Inc’s (NYSE: MA) Start Path program, an effort to help businesses grow. In light of the development, Benzinga chatted with Xformative CEO Brad Bialas to discuss the importance...
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Fintech Focus For October 2, 2020
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 7:50pm | 2542Quote Of The Day: I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. - Rosa Parks Fintech Movers: [T]he number of buy-side firms that execute less than 20% of trades algorithmically, declined from 26% in 2017 to just 17% in 2020. Similarly, the number of firms...
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Fintech Focus For September 14, 2020
Sunday, September 13, 2020 - 8:52pm | 1823Quote Of The Day: I failed my way to success. - Thomas Edison Fintech Movers: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong doubled down on his past criticism of Apple, highlighting the tech giant's unwillingness to allow certain crypto-related features on its mobile app. - Block Central bankers near a...
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Fintech Focus For September 11, 2020
Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 6:31pm | 2385Quote Of The Day: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson Fintech Movers: There is a great industry need for automated corporate actions solutions, according to a survey by SIX conducted among leading global asset managers, wealth managers, custodians,...
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Fintech Focus For September 10, 2020
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 8:24pm | 2279Quote Of The Day: Love is a serious mental disease. - Plato Fintech Movers: M1 Finance, a platform for money management, announced it surpassed $2 billion in assets. - Benzinga Carrot to expand its dividend tech. Long-Term Stock Exchange opens. Binance enters the Turkish market. Displayed markets...
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Fintech Focus For September 1, 2020
Monday, August 31, 2020 - 6:51pm | 2023Quote Of The Day: Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. - Henry David Thoreau Fintech Movers: If it were to continue compounding at that rate, bitcoin’s daily volume would exceed that of the US equity market in fewer than 4 years. - Ark Trading...
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Fintech Focus For August 31, 2020
Sunday, August 30, 2020 - 10:33pm | 2934Quote Of The Day: Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Fintech Movers: Banks have something most technologists don’t have enough of: Banks have domain expertise. Technologists tend to discount the exchange value of domain knowledge. And...
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Fintech Focus For August 19, 2020
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - 5:39pm | 1972Quote 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 Roundup For August 15, 2020
Sunday, August 16, 2020 - 10:52am | 1077American Express In Talks With Kabbage Over Acquisition What Is Happening? American Express is in talks with Kabbage, an online fintech lender backed by Softbank, over an $850 million acquisition. What Does It Mean? "From the customer’s standpoint, this is likely to lead to better fees...
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Fintech Focus For August 14, 2020
Thursday, August 13, 2020 - 6:21pm | 1902Daily Perspective: The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney Fintech Movers: Spending on e-commerce platforms will be three times more in the next five years, with digital consumers in Southeast Asia expected to spend an average of $390 in 2025, up from the $125 ......
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Mastercard Fuels Disruptive Innovation, Expands Fintech Portfolio
Thursday, August 13, 2020 - 11:51am | 253Mastercard Inc (NYSE: MA), as part of an effort to help startups grow their businesses and scale, formally announced the expansion of its Accelerate fintech portfolio, adding new startups and partners in blockchain, open-banking, financial inclusion, and carbon footprint to the Start Path...