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Fintech Focus For July 7, 2021
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 - 6:28pm | 1661Quote To Start The Day: “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.” Source: James Cameron One Big Thing In Fintech: Chime was the most downloaded digital banking app in the U.S. during the first half of 2021, with 6...
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Fintech Focus For March 23, 2021
Monday, March 22, 2021 - 5:59pm | 1880Quote To Start The Day: Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. Source: Jim Carrey One Big Thing In Fintech: As soon as July, officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have been developing prototypes for a digital dollar...
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Fintech Focus For March 10, 2021
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - 11:30pm | 1545Quote To Start The Day: Best friends don’t expect anything from you. They just accept you the way you are. Source: Maxime Lagacé One Big Thing In Fintech: M1 Finance is a platform for digital investing, borrowing and banking. As part of its vision to help self-directed investors build...
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Fintech Focus For February 8, 2021
Sunday, February 7, 2021 - 8:25pm | 2192Quote To Start The Day: Excessive determinism is almost always the biggest enemy of stability. This seeming contradiction is behind the concept of metastability which captures the mode of market functioning in the last years. Metastability is what seems stable, but is not — a stable waiting...
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Fintech Focus For January 29, 2021
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 6:44pm | 1312Quote To Start The Day: Knowledge should be rewarded. Source: John Vitti One Big Thing In Fintech: The biggest challenge facing consumers in finance is a lack of trust; it’s tough to discern whether financial institutions are acting in the interest of customers and sharing their values. That...
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Fintech Focus For January 25, 2021
Monday, January 25, 2021 - 12:47am | 3113Quote To Start The Day: You can't be a real networker unless you’re connected. Source: Michael Gruen One Big Thing In Fintech: Experts say 2021 is poised to see greater adoption and venture capital investment in blockchain technology. That prediction comes as more financial services apps...
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Fintech Focus For December 21, 2020
Sunday, December 20, 2020 - 11:32pm | 1674Quote To Start The Day: When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. Source: Paulo Coelho One Big Thing In Fintech: Seed and angel deals are projected to fall to 37% of total deal activity in 2020, down from 42% in 2019. We expect Series B rounds to finish...
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Fintech Focus For November 25, 2020
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 - 6:03pm | 1610Quote To Start The Day: Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Source: Vince Lombardi One Big Thing In Fintech: UBS said that investors will benefit from buying fintech, healthtech, greentech, and 5G stocks as these 4 sectors will disrupt the technology industry and become the...
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Fintech Focus For October 13, 2020
Monday, October 12, 2020 - 5:57pm | 2271Quote Of The Day: We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus. - David Nabarro Fintech Movers: Hackers have stolen $22 million from users of the popular bitcoin wallet Electrum by enticing people to install fake software updates. -...
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Fintech Focus For August 27, 2020
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 - 6:18pm | 2221Quote Of The Day: Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. - D.H. Lawrence Fintech Movers: A lot of acceleration has been observed within the solutions and advisory groups within the asset management community, as well as trends towards shifting assets under management to an outsourced CIO, and...
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Fintech Company N26 Looks To Digitize And Disrupt As Pandemic Encourages Online Banking
Monday, August 3, 2020 - 5:15pm | 691World Fintech Day, which came and went on Aug. 1, remembers Cosimo Medici, the Renaissance Italian who is largely considered to be the father of modern banking. Today, financial services look to the future as buzzword concepts such as “digitalization” and “machine...
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Trading 212 Takes On Disciplined Investing With 'Next Generation Product'
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 2:31pm | 839Trading 212, a leading European stock, ETF and derivatives trading platform, is rolling out a new line of automated and fractional share investing products. Co-founder Ivan Ashminov spoke with Benzinga about his firm’s role in disrupting traditional finance. About Trading 212 “We...
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Challenger Banks: Who's Who?
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 - 12:50pm | 637Challenger banks are continuing to disrupt the competitive landscape in the financial services sector. They are small retail banks that have been set up with the intention of competing for business from large, long-established national banks. In the United Kingdom, challenger banks like Monzo...