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'Spring Clean' Your Personal Finances With These Apps
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 6:08pm | 548Read More...Spring offers an ideal opportunity to refresh financial health. Just as decluttering a home brings clarity and calm, conducting a financial spring cleaning can help gain control, reduce stress and set the stage for future success. Here are key steps to consider: Review Budget and Spending Begin by...
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5 Great Stock Apps For College Students To Use To Make Money
Monday, May 2, 2022 - 4:47pm | 473Read More...College students may be surprised to learn that they are already investors by simply attending college. They’re investing in their futures by way of education, social skills by living in dorm halls and disciplining themselves to achieve a degree. While those investments will...
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Acorns App Users Can Now Invest In Bitcoin: What You Need To Know
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 - 9:00am | 254Read More...Saving and investing app Acorns announced an option Tuesday for customers to further diversify their portfolio in emerging market opportunities like Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). In a statement to Benzinga, Acorns CIO Seth Wunder said the company's philosophy is rooted in time-tested principles of...
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BZ Bites: Acorns Scraps SPAC, Raises Valuation To $1.9B In $300M Series F
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 - 5:20pm | 188Read More...Acorns announced Wednesday a $300 million Series F that boosted its valuation to $1.9 billion. The development comes as the company scrapped its intent to go public in light of recent market volatility. “The markets got very volatile,” Acorns CEO Noah Kerner said. “The concerns we...
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SPACs Attack Recap: 6 SPAC Deals, SPAC Rumors And Headline News From Last Week
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 - 2:42pm | 1509Read More...Last week featured six announced SPAC deals. The week also had earnings from several well-known former SPACs. Here's a look back at the week that was SPACs for deals, rumors and headline news all covered on Benzinga’s “SPACs Attack.” SPAC Deals Financial industry savings and...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For May 30, 2021
Sunday, May 30, 2021 - 11:20am | 1871Read More...Billionaire Ray Dalio Owns Bitcoin, Thinks It's Better Than Bonds Speaking at Coindesk's conference Consensus, Dalio said that he holds "some Bitcoin." He has not specified how much of his portfolio is allocated to the cryptocurrency or other digital assets, but he admitted that...
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Fintech Focus For May 28, 2021
Thursday, May 27, 2021 - 9:26pm | 2153Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” Source: William James One Big Thing In Fintech: Mint is the most downloaded personal finance app by some margin, and it’s also the greediest for your data. However,...
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PayPal-, Celebrity-Backed Investing App Acorns Announces SPAC Deal: What Investors Should Know
Thursday, May 27, 2021 - 9:18am | 534Read More...The savings and investing app Acorns Group is going public in a SPAC deal announced Thursday morning. The SPAC Deal: Acorns is merging with Pioneer Merger Corp (NASDAQ: PACX) in a deal valuing the company at a $2.2 billion equity value. The deal includes an oversubscribed and upsized PIPE. The...
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Fintech Focus For April 8, 2021
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - 6:17pm | 1521Read More...Quote To Start The Day: The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Source: Leo Tolstoy One Big Thing In Fintech: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital transformation in finance accelerated and stock market engagement rose. Headlines on so-called meme-stocks like GameStop led to...
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Fintech Focus For February 22, 2021
Sunday, February 21, 2021 - 3:15pm | 2088Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “I think we’ve positioned ourselves as the finance super app because I don’t think people want to go to four, five, and six different solutions to manage their money,” M1 Finance marketing vice president Bob Armour said. “We’re a place...
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Fintech Focus For February 3, 2021
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 - 8:18pm | 2714Read More...Quote To Start The Day: To better align our incentives with those of our members, we will stop participating in the practice of Payment for Order Flow. Source: Public.com One Big Thing In Fintech: An “anonymously” led startup called Millions has raised a $3 million seed round...
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APIs Are The Secret Sauce Of Fintech
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 12:27pm | 1301Read More...The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. If revenue from fintech companies really is going to more than triple in the next decade, as some have predicted, it’s not going to...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For November 14, 2020
Saturday, November 14, 2020 - 10:52am | 2780Read More...Meet Sharesies, The Investment App For Millennials The Nitty-Gritty: Founded in 2016, Sharesies is a fintech specializing in democratized stock market investing. The company is one of many other brokers that have popped up around the world, helping unlock low-cost access to listed companies and...
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'Demystify And Challenge': Empowerment Through Financial Literacy
Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 6:29pm | 708Read More...During the Benzinga Global Fintech Awards, a day of dealmaking, networking, and recognition in the financial technology space, Benzinga reporter Tanzeel Akhtar presented the following discussion on empowerment through financial literacy. Men, Women Divided: Women tend to be less confident in...
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Fintech Focus For October 20, 2020
Monday, October 19, 2020 - 7:03pm | 1774Read More...Quote Of The Day: Life is trying things to see if they work. - Ray Bradbury Fintech Movers: Dozens of brokerage log-ins are for sale on the dark web with portfolios ranging in the low thousands to a half million dollars. - CNBC Troutwood intros app for stock investment. Acorns helping unemployed...
