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Fintech Focus For December 29, 2020
Monday, December 28, 2020 - 6:26pm | 1852Quote To Start The Day: “[T]his has actually been a phenomenal year for fixed income, and yields have plummeted, which is not all that phenomenal. But it has led to phenomenal returns for investors. But with yields now really at these very, very low levels across the curves and across the...
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Fintech Focus For December 22, 2020
Monday, December 21, 2020 - 7:40pm | 1383Quote To Start The Day: Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Source: Maya Angelou One Big Thing In Fintech: Instead of focusing on growth at all costs, fintech startups have been drawing a path to profitability. It doesn’t mean that they’ll have a positive bottom line at the...
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Fintech Focus For December 14, 2020
Sunday, December 13, 2020 - 8:23pm | 1738Quote To Start The Day: We’re really trying to encourage progress, not to force it. Source: Adena Friedman One Big Thing In Fintech: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. is jumping into the institutional bitcoin game with a $100 million investment in bitcoin and a $5 million equity stake...
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Fintech Focus For December 8, 2020
Monday, December 7, 2020 - 6:39pm | 1600Quote To Start The Day: There’s challenges with blockchain to date because it doesn’t have the scale to provide attractive economics. Source: Daniel Springer One Big Thing In Fintech: The fintech space is becoming increasingly crowded (since fintech is eating the world) with over $20...
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Fintech Focus For December 3, 2020
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 7:25pm | 1957Quote To Start The Day: Coming hard on the heels of the trade war, the Covid shock will intensify pressure for the diversification and localization of supply chains — just not yet. A year spent in emergency response mode is not a year when projects requiring detailed planning, significant...
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Fintech Focus For December 2, 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 7:02pm | 2069Quote To Start The Day: It’s possible to transcend anything that doesn’t kill you. Source: David Goggins One Big Thing In Fintech: The digitization of financial markets in Africa will continue to accelerate as local investors seek diversified access to higher-yield financial products....
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Fintech Focus For November 25, 2020
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 - 6:03pm | 1610Quote To Start The Day: Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Source: Vince Lombardi One Big Thing In Fintech: UBS said that investors will benefit from buying fintech, healthtech, greentech, and 5G stocks as these 4 sectors will disrupt the technology industry and become the...
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Fintech Focus For November 19, 2020
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 7:42pm | 2481Quote Of The Day: The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. - Bruce Lee Fintech Movers: Big investors are backing online banks more than ever, betting that these upstarts' low overhead and nimble technology stacks will let them keep grabbing customers from traditional...
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Fintech Focus For November 3, 2020
Monday, November 2, 2020 - 7:02pm | 2173Quote Of The Day: I’d start a war just to illustrate the value of peace. - Clint Eastwood Fintech Movers: According to the Amex Trendex: Holiday Business Spend Survey, 78% of small- and mid-size business owners and financial decision makers said payment flexibility is important during this...
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Fintech Focus For October 30, 2020
Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 6:08pm | 2151Quote Of The Day: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. - Mark Twain Fintech Movers: The...
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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 28, 2020
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 - 5:52pm | 2346Quote Of The Day: Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie Fintech Movers: UBS Group AG plans to invest $200 million of its own money in fintech companies over the medium term in a push to further digitize its services and find new ways to engage with clients. - Bloomberg Benzinga...
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Fintech Focus For October 22, 2020
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 6:14pm | 2017Quote Of The Day: When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. - Paulo Coelho Fintech Movers: Coinbase received 1,914 requests for information in the first six months of 2020 alone. Nearly 60% of those came from state and federal agencies in the U.S.—...
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Fintech Focus For October 15, 2020
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 6:26pm | 2121Quote Of The Day: There needs to be a sweet spot between the brand and your community. - Danny Cortenraede Fintech Movers: [W]e think that over the next five years, Bitcoin presents a multi trillion dollar opportunity. - ARK Invest M1 Finance closes on $45M Series C round. Deutsche to introduce...
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Fintech Focus For October 9, 2020
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 7:04pm | 2287Quote Of The Day: The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Fintech Movers: Electronic trading giant Citadel Securities will bolster its already huge presence at the New York Stock Exchange by buying the NYSE market-making business of smaller...