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Quote To Start The Day: "[C]ost-push inflation will be the primary driver of inflation through the remainder of this year and into next. The Fed is betting on this, but if it is wrong, it will be because a wage-price spiral developed, although that is unlikely to occur until the economy has...

Quote To Start The Day: The first step is you have to say that you can. Source: Will Smith One Big Thing In Fintech: The fintech space is rapidly maturing. Investors are backing huge deals, with Q1’21 already setting the record for total mega-rounds in a quarter. It has also seen the highest...

Quote To Start The Day: Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. Source: Tim Ferriss One Big Thing In Fintech: A provisional report from data and research group CB Insights indicates that we’re not merely in a warm period for fintech funding — we are in a period of...

Quote To Start The Day: Do not confuse motion and progress. Source: Alfred A. Montapert One Big Thing In Fintech: More than 90M millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Millennials have overtaken the baby boomers to become the largest...

Quote To Start The Day: Excessive determinism is almost always the biggest enemy of stability. This seeming contradiction is behind the concept of metastability which captures the mode of market functioning in the last years. Metastability is what seems stable, but is not — a stable waiting...

Quote To Start The Day: If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right. Source: Henry Ford One Big Thing In Fintech: Affirm founder and CEO Max Levchin is poised to join Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman on the billionaires list, becoming the latest...

Quote To Start The Day: Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Source: Oprah Winfrey One Big Thing In Fintech: The banking industry has not been spared from the impact of Covid-19. Bank of America, for one, saw profits drop 16% year-over-year (YoY) in Q3’20 to $4.9B...

Quote To Start The Day: When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. Source: Paulo Coelho One Big Thing In Fintech: Seed and angel deals are projected to fall to 37% of total deal activity in 2020, down from 42% in 2019. We expect Series B rounds to finish...

Quote Of The Day: If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. - Jim Rohn Fintech Movers: The most well-funded US fintech startup is SoFi, with $2.5B in disclosed equity funding. The San Francisco-based personal finance platform offers an array of financial...

Quote Of The Day: We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Ana’s Nin Fintech Movers: Major finance players are using distributed ledger technology to reshape the capital markets infrastructure that powers the trade of stocks, bonds, and other securities. - CB Insights...

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...

Quote Of The Day: It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. - Theodore Roosevelt Fintech Movers: The global fintech sector faces an "existential crisis", says McKinsey, as sources of funding dry up. - Finextra What’s the outlook for crypto brokerages....