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Fintech Focus For August 28, 2020
Thursday, August 27, 2020 - 5:47pm | 2399Read More...Quote Of The Day: Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. - Babe Ruth Fintech Movers: The US SEC approved the proposed Discretionary Limit, or D-Limit, order type from exchange operator IEX Group as three new exchanges are also slated to launch within the next month. -...
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Fintech Focus For August 27, 2020
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 - 6:18pm | 2221Read More...Quote Of The Day: Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. - D.H. Lawrence Fintech Movers: A lot of acceleration has been observed within the solutions and advisory groups within the asset management community, as well as trends towards shifting assets under management to an outsourced CIO, and...
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Fintech Focus For August 26, 2020
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - 7:02pm | 2533Read More...Quote Of The Day: Nobody wants to fly across the country for a two hour meeting when you can do it just as well on Zoom. - James Altucher Fintech Movers: The main challenge Central American fintech faces is a lack of tech infrastructure and knowhow. That’s why social impact funds are...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For August 15, 2020
Sunday, August 16, 2020 - 10:52am | 1077Read More...American Express In Talks With Kabbage Over Acquisition What Is Happening? American Express is in talks with Kabbage, an online fintech lender backed by Softbank, over an $850 million acquisition. What Does It Mean? "From the customer’s standpoint, this is likely to lead to better fees...
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CME Group, Nasdaq Introduce Futures On The Nasdaq-100 Volatility Index
Friday, August 14, 2020 - 9:50am | 310Read More...CME Group Inc (NASDAQ: CME), alongside Nasdaq Inc (NASDAQ: NDAQ), formally announced the introduction of futures contracts on the Nasdaq-100 Volatility Index (VOLQ). What Happened? Pending regulatory review, CME Group, a leader in derivatives, is building on its Nasdaq relationship with the release...
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Fintech Focus For August 10, 2020
Sunday, August 9, 2020 - 9:22pm | 2244Read More...Daily 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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Shopify Rival BigCommerce Soars Up To 292% On Debut After $216M IPO
Thursday, August 6, 2020 - 2:04am | 398Read More...BigCommerce Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: BIGC) shares skyrocketed on the first day of trading at Nasdaq Stock Market on Wednesday. What Happened The Austin, Texas-based company’s shares opened at $68, and soared as much as 292% to $93.99 in intraday trading, on its debut. Trading had...
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Fintech Focus For August 4, 2020
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 11:09am | 2800Read More...Daily Perspective: Don’t count the days, make the days count. - Muhammad Ali Fintech Movers: In Latin America, women are stepping up as fintech leaders, with five times as many female-founded fintechs as the global average. - Crunchbase Quantamental investment strategy shines. Virtu...
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Fintech Focus For August 3, 2020
Monday, August 3, 2020 - 11:46am | 1830Read More...Daily Perspective: Stay hungry, stay foolish. - Steve Jobs Fintech Movers: The ECB says EU financial institutions have an over-optimistic view of their IT resilience and resistance to cyber threats. - Finextra US fintech funding on pace to excel. Tradeweb calls on Nasdaq tech. Cuban-backed...
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Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead: 'Cautious Attitude'
Sunday, July 19, 2020 - 5:32pm | 2080Read More...The Last Week In A Nutshell What Happened: “U.S. stocks are closing in on record highs. But behind the scenes, uneasy investors are keeping their options open,” said Lindsey Bell, chief investment officer for Ally Financial Inc-owned (NYSE: ALLY) Ally Invest. “They’ve bought...
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Fintech Focus For July 17, 2020
Friday, July 17, 2020 - 10:21am | 1949Read More...Daily Perspective: If we go through this period where we are reopening and reclosing and opening and reclosing, this, in my mind, will have a very negative effect on consumer confidence. - Harker Fintech Movers: Apps like Robinhood are impacting markets in a huge way. - Mohamed El-Erian Intern...
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Fintech Focus For July 14, 2020
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 4:51pm | 1551Read More...Daily Perspective: If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. - Oprah Winfrey Fintech Movers: $64 billion was invested in North American startups (companies based in Canada and the United States)...
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How Might Tech Shape Up In the Post-COVID Economy? Earnings Ahead
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 2:47pm | 1508Read More...Key Takeaways: Analysts expect a decline in Q2 and Q3 earnings but a strong recovery from Q4 2020 through 2021 Companies producing or offering cloud-based and subscription-based services performed better during the COVID lockdown period Economic reopening might shift the sector paradigm to a...
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Shopify Rival BigCommerce Files For IPO
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 3:20am | 293Read More...BigCommerce on Monday announced it has filed for an initial public offering with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The e-commerce software-as-a-service provider put $100 million as a placeholder amount to be raised in the IPO in the SEC filing, as is standard practice...
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How To Inspire And Create 100,000 Millionaires Of Color?
Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 5:50pm | 429Read More...Martin Braithwaite, a soccer player for FC Barcelona, and Philip Michael, author of “Real Estate Wealth Hacking: How To 10x Your Net Worth in 18 Months,” are the founders of NYCE Companies, an organization that offers shares of real estate investments through IPOs, and a new app that...







