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Fintech Focus For August 18, 2021
Tuesday, August 17, 2021 - 4:51pm | 1927Quote To Start The Day: “For too long, Wall Street has had an unfair advantage over Main Street by accessing data and information before smaller investors. Benzinga’s core mission is to bring easier-to-consume news to retail investors, in order to even the playing field between main...
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Fintech Focus For August 16, 2021
Sunday, August 15, 2021 - 1:12pm | 2685Quote To Start The Day: “The way that I manage risk has changed materially. I try as often as I can to think about multi-decade holding periods for the things that we own. In the moment, it is hard, but then you figure out guardrails to stay in an infinite mindset. If I’m thinking over...
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Fintech Focus For August 2, 2021
Sunday, August 1, 2021 - 7:49pm | 1817Quote To Start The Day: "The first casualty when war comes is truth.” Source: Hiram Johnson One Big Thing In Fintech: Square will buy Australia’s Afterpay for about $29 billion in an all-stock deal as the U.S. fintech firm looks to leverage the burgeoning popularity of buy now,...
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Fintech Focus For July 26, 2021
Sunday, July 25, 2021 - 6:45pm | 1530Quote To Start The Day: "You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” Source: Mark Twain One Big Thing In Fintech: Crypto exchange Binance US could go public, Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao has said. "Our partner in the U.S. is looking at...
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Fintech Focus For July 22, 2021
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 - 5:36pm | 2089Quote To Start The Day: “Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.” Source: Sun Tzu One Big Thing In Fintech: Adena Friedman, president and chief executive of Nasdaq, says the firm sees a huge opportunity from spinning out Nasdaq Private Market into a...
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Fintech Focus For July 16, 2021
Thursday, July 15, 2021 - 6:13pm | 1743Quote To Start The Day: “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” Source: Epictetus One Big Thing In Fintech: In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on July 15, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell reiterated his uncertainty as to whether the Fed would proceed with...
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Fintech Focus For July 12, 2021
Sunday, July 11, 2021 - 10:02pm | 2090Quote To Start The Day: “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” Source: Barack Obama One Big Thing In Fintech: Robinhood...
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Fintech Focus For July 6, 2021
Monday, July 5, 2021 - 9:26pm | 2275Quote To Start The Day: “Money is made by sitting, not trading.” Source: Jesse Livermore One Big Thing In Fintech: In a working paper published on July 1, researchers with the Bank for International Settlements looked at trends among crypto investors. Central to the research was a...
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Fintech Focus For July 1, 2021
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - 7:07pm | 2232Quote To Start The Day: “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” Source: Tony Robbins One Big Thing In Fintech: NYCE Companies formally announced Wednesday a record-breaking $1.31-million raise, as well as the signing of a deal to go...
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Fintech Focus For June 28, 2021
Sunday, June 27, 2021 - 10:29pm | 1699Quote To Start The Day: “You become what you believe.” Source: Oprah Winfrey One Big Thing In Fintech: The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has ordered crypto exchange Binance to stop undertaking any regulated activity in the country. But since the exchange pulled its...
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Fintech Focus For June 21, 2021
Sunday, June 20, 2021 - 11:23pm | 2057Quote To Start The Day: "We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” Source: Warren Buffett One Big Thing In Fintech: Successive hearings before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have focused national attention on...
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Fintech Focus For June 16, 2021
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 6:28pm | 2518Quote To Start The Day: "[By] Labor Day, I'll be very disappointed if people haven't found their way into the office and then we'll have a different kind of conversation.” Source: James Gorman One Big Thing In Fintech: The most fundamental problem in financial services is...
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Fintech Focus For June 14, 2021
Sunday, June 13, 2021 - 10:13pm | 1829Quote To Start The Day: "[C]ost-push inflation will be the primary driver of inflation through the remainder of this year and into next. The Fed is betting on this, but if it is wrong, it will be because a wage-price spiral developed, although that is unlikely to occur until the economy has...
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Fintech Focus For June 1, 2021
Monday, May 31, 2021 - 10:32pm | 2138Quote To Start The Day: “Showing is better than telling.” Source: Floyd Mayweather One Big Thing In Fintech: Ray Dalio, a billionaire investor and the founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has said that the digital yuan will be more competitive than the...
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Fintech Focus For May 24, 2021
Sunday, May 23, 2021 - 8:59pm | 1326Quote To Start The Day: “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” Source: Aristotle One Big Thing In Fintech: Robinhood...