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Fintech Focus For November 20, 2020
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 7:41pm | 2302Quote Of The Day: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball Fintech Movers: Cashless payments were on the rise before the pandemic hit, and now, eight months into its grip on the U.S., their use is...
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How Financial Markets Are Becoming More Diverse: 'The Retail Investor Looks Like Me'
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 3:50pm | 569During the Benzinga Global Fintech Awards, a day of dealmaking, networking, and recognition in the financial technology space, Benzinga's Brent Slava presented the following discussion on the feature requirements of new retail traders. What The Retail Investor Looks Like: Times are changing,...
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Meet The Winners Of The 2020 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 7:50pm | 786Benzinga, a leading news and data platform, in partnership with financial data and insights platform Envestnet | Yodlee, held the sixth annual Benzinga Global Fintech Awards Tuesday — a day of dealmaking, networking and recognition in the financial technology space. See also:...
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Online Brokers See Tech Issues As Stock Market Rallies
Monday, November 9, 2020 - 11:56am | 450The massive rally in the stock markets Monday is causing problems for many online stock brokers. Brokers Down: User reports indicate that financial service firms Merrill Lynch, Fidelity, Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade are having problems, according to Downdetector. A user on Twitter also said...
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Fintech Focus For August 10, 2020
Sunday, August 9, 2020 - 9:22pm | 2244Daily Perspective: Only the paranoid survive. - Andy Grove Fintech Movers: Goldman Sachs is seriously considering its own cryptocurrency, possibly a stablecoin, as it significantly expands its digital assets team and appoints a new head to spearhead efforts. - Coindesk Capital markets DLT on cusp...
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Hashtag Investing Social Media Platform Introduces New Mobile Apps
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 2:06pm | 220Hashtag Investing, a social community for stock investors, formally announced the launch of an iOS and Android app, increasing accessibility to its community of over 4,000 investors. What Happened? Hashtag Investing is a social network for stock investors. As part of a vision to increase...
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Webull's CEO Talks Tesla's Rise To $1,000, Nikola's Arrival
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 6:45pm | 621Benzinga recently got some insight from Anthony Denier, CEO of the commission-free trading platform Webull, to gain a better understanding of how some of the firm's 11 million clients are looking at Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) after the stock hit the $1,000 per share milestone. Denier On...
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How 3 Major Retail Brokerages Are Embracing The Changing Industry
Friday, November 22, 2019 - 11:02am | 765The retail brokerage industry is in a state of flux. Between the industry-wide transition to zero commissions, to Charles Schwab's (NYSE: SCHW) interest in buying TD Ameritrade (NASDAQ: AMTD), there is a lot of uncertainty about the future of the traditional brokerage business model. But...
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These Are The Winners Of The Inaugural WeTrader Paper Trading Competition
Monday, November 11, 2019 - 11:53am | 950The WeTrader Paper Trading Competition , a 5-week paper trading contest hosted by the zero-commission trading platform Webull, has officially ended. Here’s a look at how the 83 contestants—the top 10 portfolios from each weekly round of the contest and 50 of the most popular...
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These Are The Stocks Being Traded By Some Of The Top Traders On Webull
Friday, November 8, 2019 - 12:44pm | 887The WeTrader Paper Trading Competition is a 5-week paper trading contest hosted by the zero-commission trading platform Webull. The 70 contestants—the top 10 portfolios from each weekly round of the contest and 50 of the most popular participants—are vying for the grand prize of either...
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Trader Toolkit: A Map For Those Feeling Lost In Headline Risk
Monday, November 4, 2019 - 10:19am | 782With the ever-increasing number of trading platforms and the growing allure of low-to-no-fee brokerages, new traders are confronted with a deluge of options when it comes to trading and investing. But lost in the promises of sleek interfaces and free shares for signing up is the fact that...
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WeTrader Competition: Round Four Wrap-up
Friday, November 1, 2019 - 5:15pm | 823Friday, November 1’s market close marks the end of the fourth round of the WeTrader Paper Trading Competition, hosted by the zero-commission trading platform Webull. For those in the dark, the WeTrader Competition offers traders the chance to build their best-performing portfolio with $100,...
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Trader Toolkit: Why Peer Pressure Has Its Benefits
Thursday, October 31, 2019 - 9:26am | 817With the ever-increasing number of trading platforms and the growing allure of low-to-no-fee brokerages, new traders are confronted with a deluge of options when it comes to trading and investing. But lost in the promises of sleek interfaces and free shares for signing up is the fact that...
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Trader Toolkit: How To Make This Earnings Season A Merry One
Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - 9:37am | 965With the ever-increasing number of trading platforms and the growing allure of low-to-no-fee brokerages, new traders are confronted with a deluge of options when it comes to trading and investing. But lost in the promises of sleek interfaces and free shares for signing up is the fact that...
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More Earnings And A Fed Decision In Week Four Of The WeTrader Competition
Monday, October 28, 2019 - 11:56am | 2305Today marks the start of the fourth round of the WeTrader Competition, hosted by the zero-commission online trading platform Webull. The competition tasks traders to formulate their best paper trading strategy over the course of four weekly rounds for the chance to win an Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:...