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Fintech Focus For April 5, 2021
Sunday, April 4, 2021 - 9:35pm | 2002Quote To Start The Day: If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. Source: Steve Jobs One Big Thing In Fintech: JPMorgan issued a note Thursday that bitcoin could fetch a long-term price of $130,000 if its volatility continues to decline. Source: Coindesk Other Key...
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Fintech Focus For April 2, 2021
Thursday, April 1, 2021 - 6:17pm | 1719Quote To Start The Day: Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions. Source: Marcus Aurelius One Big Thing In Fintech: Coinbase has confirmed the April 14 direct listing date. Source: The Block Other Key Fintech...
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Fintech Focus For March 4, 2021
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 7:59pm | 2442Quote To Start The Day: “In a multi-asset portfolio, investors can likely add up to 1% of their allocation to cryptocurrencies in order to achieve any efficiency gain in the overall risk-adjusted returns of the portfolio.” Source: JPMorgan One Big Thing In Fintech: In recent months,...
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Fintech Spotlight: Meet Archax, The First Regulated UK Digital Securities Exchange
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 8:56am | 982In recent months, cryptocurrency attracted the interest of both financial institutions and government entities, evidenced by Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s (NYSE: GS) move to reopen its cryptocurrency desk and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s push to make bitcoin a part of his city’s...
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Fintech Focus For February 1, 2021
Monday, February 1, 2021 - 12:56am | 1721Quote To Start The Day: The value of the cold email is so underrated. Source: Michael Gruen One Big Thing In Fintech: When Robinhood, a startup that promises to make finance accessible for all, temporarily limited trading on GameStop, AMC, and other memestocks, many retail investors were pissed...
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Fintech Focus For December 16, 2020
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - 6:59pm | 1992Quote To Start The Day: “When we’re talking about public markets — when you decide to go public — you go from one to two businesses. The business of whatever you’re in, let’s call it making widgets, and the business of being public.” Source: David Buzkin...
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Fintech Focus For October 29, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 6:32pm | 2855Quote Of The Day: The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon Fintech Movers: The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), the leading research institute covering the global Fintech sector, has partnered with the World Bank on a study reviewing the...
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Fintech Focus For October 12, 2020
Sunday, October 11, 2020 - 8:33pm | 1989Quote Of The Day: The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. - Tony Robbins Fintech Movers: The Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, the research and development wing of the United States Department of Homeland Security, has given close to a million dollars to five blockchain...
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Fintech Focus For August 20, 2020
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 6:37pm | 2239Quote 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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FCA Blames French Politics As It Pulls Renault Merger Proposal
Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 12:44pm | 567Within hours of a potential deal, the board of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (NYSE: FCAU) yanked its proposed merger with Groupe Renault (OTC: RNLSY) in what would have created a $35 billion automobile powerhouse. The board laid the blame squarely on politics in Renault's native France, which controls...
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Benzinga's Bulls And Bears For The Past Week: Amazon, Twitter, Intel, Chrysler And More
Sunday, August 27, 2017 - 8:22pm | 612Benzinga has featured a look at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bearish calls included an e-commerce juggernaut and some short seller favorites. Bullish calls featured tech giants and a Big Three automaker. Late summer and early fall can be a worrying stretch for investors, as...
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15 Trends That Will Shape Financial Markets In 2015
Friday, January 9, 2015 - 8:26am | 633Greenwich Associates, LLC recently released its “15 for ’15,” a list of 15 market structure trends for investors to watch in 2015. Here’s the 15 trends they believe will shape the financial markets in 2015. Related Link: 4 Bank Of America Predictions For 2015 1. Rates...