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Fintech Focus For October 2, 2020
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 7:50pm | 2542Read More...Quote Of The Day: I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. - Rosa Parks Fintech Movers: [T]he number of buy-side firms that execute less than 20% of trades algorithmically, declined from 26% in 2017 to just 17% in 2020. Similarly, the number of firms...
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Fintech Focus For October 1, 2020
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 7:01pm | 2198Read More...Quote Of The Day: Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Fintech Movers: Insurtech has emerged as a major draw for VC investment, with the space attracting more than $6B in funding last year. - CB Insights Iownit intros a DLT for private markets. How...
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Benzinga's Bulls And Bears Of The Week: Amazon, Boeing, Kroger And More
Saturday, September 19, 2020 - 4:31pm | 941Read More...Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. This past week's bullish calls included an e-commerce colossus and some surprises. An aerospace leader and a supermarket operator were among last week's bearish calls. As the third-quarter winds...
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Fintech Focus For September 9, 2020
Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 7:02pm | 2210Read More...Quote Of The Day: We have seen peak rebound. - Joachim Fels Fintech Movers: Defi is not even close to the ICO hype bubble level yet. Bubbles are usually the result of a euphoric retail crowd running ahead of itself. - Coindesk BSP pushes digital bank framework. Policygenius a fast-growing fintech...
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Fintech Focus For August 31, 2020
Sunday, August 30, 2020 - 10:33pm | 2934Read More...Quote Of The Day: Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Fintech Movers: Banks have something most technologists don’t have enough of: Banks have domain expertise. Technologists tend to discount the exchange value of domain knowledge. And...
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Fintech Focus For August 20, 2020
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 6:37pm | 2239Read More...Quote Of The Day: Whoever is happy will make others happy too. - Anne Frank Fintech Movers: There is a large opportunity for Google to leverage its massive direct consumer relationships to attract [banks] to sign up for co-branded checking accounts. For many of the bank and credit union partners,...
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Fintech Focus For August 12, 2020
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - 6:38pm | 2605Read More...Daily Perspective: Growth can heal a lot of sins. - Cathie Wood Fintech Movers: American Express Company is in talks with Kabbage, an online fintech lender backed by Softbank, over an $850 million acquisition. - Benzinga Finicity: The COVID Credit Crisis. Infor, CIBC, SunStream partner. A GM...
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'Be Wary Of Cashing In': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, August 2, 2020 - 12:07pm | 2260Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: Stocks closed the week practically unchanged after mixed reactions to a slew of blow-out earnings results. Remember This: “Although the stock market will certainly experience pullbacks, disappointments and corrections along the way, the horses have...
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Fintech Focus For July 30, 2020
Thursday, July 30, 2020 - 8:06pm | 1944Read More...Daily Perspective: Not all those who wander are lost. - J.R.R. Tolkein Fintech Movers: Investors and entrepreneurs say that while the COVID-19 pandemic has boosted demand for fintechs in areas such as digital payments and online trading, it has hurt more vulnerable sectors such as online lending....
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Boeing Takes $2.4 Billion Loss In Q2 Due To COVID-19
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 1:36pm | 308Read More...Aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) reported a $2.4 billion net loss in revenue for the second quarter of 2020, which it attributes to the significant hit to the aviation industry by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Commercial aircraft deliveries across the board fell by more than half...
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Boeing Sees Rising Demand For Freighter Conversions
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - 2:42pm | 479Read More...Aircraft manufacturer Boeing (NYSE: BA) is experiencing an uplift in business to convert former passenger planes for all-cargo operations. "Strong demand is driven by customers transitioning to newer-generation freighters and choosing a Boeing converted freighter (BCF) as a cost-efficient...
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United Airlines Goes On Cargo Tear
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 - 9:42am | 1595Read More...Airlines have touted how much-dedicated cargo flying they're doing with transformed passenger planes, but United Airlines is the only major U.S. carrier where cargo is boosting the bottom line during the COVID pandemic. United's second-quarter earnings last week included an eye-popping 36.3%...
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Benzinga's Bulls And Bears Of The Week: Apple, Coca-Cola, Twitter And More
Saturday, July 25, 2020 - 1:10pm | 829Read More...Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. This week's bullish calls included an iconic beverage stock and a cannabis stock. The iPhone maker and the electric vehicle leader were among the week's bearish calls. Overall, the second-quarter...
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Fintech Focus For July 22, 2020
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 7:57am | 2044Read More...Daily Perspective: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. - Steve Jobs Fintech Movers: DARPA-backed blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace today unveiled “predictive capabilities” for its crypto tracing software—a move designed to better...
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'Head Above Water': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, July 12, 2020 - 4:50pm | 1993Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: “It’s certainly been a wild ride for stocks in 2020,” noted researchers at LPL Financial. “Barely past the halfway point, the year has already brought the worst pandemic to hit the U.S. in over 100 years, an unprecedented...
