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Viking Global's Top Five Stock Bets
Friday, April 21, 2023 - 9:21am | 995Read More...Viking Global Investors is an elite hedge fund run by former Tiger Cub Andreas Halvorsen. The Norwegian billionaire has a nearly unparalleled track record of success in the often fickle stock-picking game. Undoubtedly, much of this can be attributed to his tutelage under Julian Robertson at Tiger...
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Neobank Current Uses Crypto To Build Bridge Between The Haves And The Have Nots
Wednesday, December 28, 2022 - 2:18pm | 862Read More...Current is an Andreessen Horowitz-backed disruptor looking to fix the way people bank. “On one hand, there’s currency debasement and its inflationary impacts," the firm's CTO, Trevor Marshall, says. "On the other hand, you have technology which is a deflationary force...
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Latest On Russia-Ukraine War: Paypal Suspends Service In Russia; Ceasefire Violated
Saturday, March 5, 2022 - 10:33am | 424Read More...PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) on Saturday announced that it is halting its operations in Russia, joining a growing number of companies responding to the Ukrainian invasion. Latest Developments: PayPal is the latest payment organization to cut ties with Russia. "Under the current...
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Visa Cracks Down On Cashless ATMs At Cannabis Dispensaries
Monday, January 24, 2022 - 4:41pm | 367Read More...Cashless ATMs allow customers to use their bank cards to buy cannabis, in spite of federal prohibition. Money gets taken out of their account and goes to the dispensary. Sounds about right, no? However, Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) recently issued another warning that cashless ATMs used by many...
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Booking.com Fintech Lead Unpacks Payments Pivot, Vision To Refine Travel Experience
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 - 11:20am | 635Read More...The worst part of travel often comes down to payments, loyalty rewards and customer service. That’s according to Daniel Marovitz, the senior vice president of fintech at Booking Holdings Inc's (NASDAQ: BKNG) Booking.com, with whom Benzinga spoke on how a new fintech unit...
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Visa, Mastercard, And PayPal Are Stepping Up Their Cryptocurrency Game
Friday, July 2, 2021 - 4:15pm | 693Read More...While we wait for the latest earnings results, it is a good moment to recap previous quarters' results. Travel restrictions, caused by the pandemic, as well as general downtrend since last year, made the cross-border volumes significantly decline in the last quarter of 2020, for both Visa (NYSE...
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Fintech Focus For July 1, 2021
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - 7:07pm | 2232Read More...Quote 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 25, 2021
Thursday, June 24, 2021 - 4:24pm | 2854Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” Source: Winston S. Churchill One Big Thing In Fintech: Eric Adams, the current front-runner in the 2021 New York City mayoral election in the Democratic primary, appears to...
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Fintech Focus For June 18, 2021
Thursday, June 17, 2021 - 7:26pm | 2110Read More...Quote To Start The Day: "A man is but what he knows.” Source: Sir Francis Bacon One Big Thing In Fintech: At the end of May, the total market capitalization of stablecoins, which include ones offered by crypto firms Tether and Centre, broke $100 billion. But in recent weeks, lawmakers...
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Fintech Focus For June 1, 2021
Monday, May 31, 2021 - 10:32pm | 2138Read More...Quote 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 27, 2021
Thursday, May 27, 2021 - 9:19pm | 1975Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson One Big Thing In Fintech: Visa said [] it has expanded its Visa Fintech Partner Connect, a program designed to help...
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Fintech Focus For May 6, 2021
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 - 5:11pm | 1583Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Source: C.E.M. Joad One Big Thing In Fintech: CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that it will not reopen its physical trading pits that were closed last...
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Fintech Focus For April 29, 2021
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 6:15pm | 1682Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” Source: Albert Einstein One Big Thing In Fintech: Edge Clear, the futures brokerage built by and for traders, last week announced the demo launch of EdgeProX, a...
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Barron's Latest Picks And Pans: Affirm, Bitcoin, BorgWarner, Credit Suisse And More
Sunday, April 11, 2021 - 9:32am | 1112Read More...This weekend's Barron's cover story discusses why investors can no longer ignore cryptocurrencies. Other featured articles present companies pursuing Bitcoin opportunities and tips for investing in Bitcoin wisely. Also, see the prospects for cruise line operators, a newly public fintech,...
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Fintech Focus For March 30, 2021
Monday, March 29, 2021 - 6:30pm | 1413Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Source: Henry David Thoreau One Big Thing In Fintech: In an effort to provide Brazilians better technology and infrastructure to access markets, Guru launched a free solution last year for accessing stock...
