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Fintech Focus For March 22, 2021
Sunday, March 21, 2021 - 9:38pm | 1881Quote To Start The Day: “I didn’t come into this job expecting a 9am-5pm’s, but I also didn’t expect consistent 9am-5am’s either.” Source: Goldman Analyst One Big Thing In Fintech: To keep up with emerging technology, self-made billionaire Mark Cuban is always...
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Fintech Focus For March 4, 2021
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 7:59pm | 2442Quote To Start The Day: “In a multi-asset portfolio, investors can likely add up to 1% of their allocation to cryptocurrencies in order to achieve any efficiency gain in the overall risk-adjusted returns of the portfolio.” Source: JPMorgan One Big Thing In Fintech: In recent months,...
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Fintech Focus For February 10, 2021
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 - 9:59pm | 1887Quote To Start The Day: The question isn’t who is doing to let me, it’s who is going to stop me. Source: Ayn Rand One Big Thing In Fintech: In January 2021, FinTech startups worldwide raised VC/PE investments worth $7.8 billion across 294 deals. In terms of MoM growth, there was a 37.4...
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Fintech Focus For February 4, 2021
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 7:32pm | 1893Quote To Start The Day: We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. Source: Helen Keller One Big Thing In Fintech: Seedrs and Crowdcube were created as forward-thinking Fintechs leveraging technology to match investors with private firms in a sector traditionally dominated by...
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Benzinga's Bulls And Bears Of The Week: Apple, Boeing, Netflix, Starbucks And More
Saturday, January 30, 2021 - 12:47pm | 1211Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. The week's bullish calls included tech giants and an aerospace turnaround play. Electric vehicle and video streaming leaders were among the bearish calls seen. The three big U.S. indexes ended the week...
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Fintech Focus For December 31, 2020
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 7:48pm | 1939Quote To Start The Day: Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings. Source: Jonathan Huie One Big Thing In Fintech: In a recent outlook for North American and European fintech, Fitch Ratings acknowledged that the sector fundamentals should remain resilient next year, despite pandemic-...
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Fintech Focus For December 7, 2020
Sunday, December 6, 2020 - 8:02pm | 1605Quote To Start The Day: Robinhood’s revenue model could easily disappear. They’ve made it clear that they are comfortable living on this regulatory edge. Source: Tyler Gellasch One Big Thing In Fintech: Congresswoman Maxine Waters has released a wide array of recommended policy changes...
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Fintech Focus For December 4, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 8:49pm | 2010Quote To Start The Day: One can look at a SPAC as the reverse of a traditional IPO. A SPAC goes public first—usually with a highly regarded executive team able to raise money from large institutional investors—with the intent to acquire a private company to put in its shell within...
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Fintech Focus For December 2, 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 7:02pm | 2069Quote To Start The Day: It’s possible to transcend anything that doesn’t kill you. Source: David Goggins One Big Thing In Fintech: The digitization of financial markets in Africa will continue to accelerate as local investors seek diversified access to higher-yield financial products....
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Fintech Focus For December 1, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020 - 6:07pm | 1524Quote To Start The Day: Whatever you do, do it well. Source: Walt Disney One Big Thing In Fintech: Business information provider S&P Global Inc agreed on Monday to pay $44 billion in stock to acquire IHS Markit Ltd in the year’s biggest acquisition that will create a new data powerhouse...
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Fintech Focus For November 24, 2020
Monday, November 23, 2020 - 7:34pm | 1900Quote To Start The Day: If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient. Source: Gurbaksh Chahal One Big Thing In Fintech: Super Bowl LV, taking place in Tampa Bay in February, will offer 100% digital payment acceptance for fans throughout the stadium on...
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Fintech Focus For November 19, 2020
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 7:42pm | 2481Quote Of The Day: The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. - Bruce Lee Fintech Movers: Big investors are backing online banks more than ever, betting that these upstarts' low overhead and nimble technology stacks will let them keep grabbing customers from traditional...
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CBD Chain Can Sue Visa For 'Terrorizing' Its Business: Judge
Monday, November 16, 2020 - 5:42pm | 1239This article was originally published on WeedWeek, and appears here with permission. The owner of a Missouri-based CBD chain expressed relief this week after a federal judge ruled he could continue pursuing unjust enrichment and defamation claims against Visa, which he has accused of “...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Alibaba, Intel, Target, Visa And More
Saturday, November 14, 2020 - 4:07pm | 1039This weekend's Barron's cover offers a low-risk strategy for investors optimistic about an ecomomic recovery. Other featured articles discuss what a COVID-19 vaccine would mean for the stock market and how it could shake up the pharmaceutical industry. Also, the prospects for semiconductor...
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Fintech Focus For November 6, 2020
Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 9:15pm | 1968Quote Of The Day: One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson Fintech Movers: The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit challenging Visa’s proposed $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid. - TechCrunch WhatsApp to expand payments tech. A Biden win could be good for...