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Fintech Focus For June 10, 2021
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 - 10:13pm | 1961Quote To Start The Day: "The healthiest response to life is joy.” Source: Deepak Chopra One Big Thing In Fintech: Atom Finance, a modern financial knowledge platform, announced its first product integration partnership with Inter, a digital platform for banking, shopping, insurance, and...
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Fintech Focus For April 29, 2021
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 6:15pm | 1682Quote To Start The Day: “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” Source: Albert Einstein One Big Thing In Fintech: Edge Clear, the futures brokerage built by and for traders, last week announced the demo launch of EdgeProX, a...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For April 25, 2021
Sunday, April 25, 2021 - 9:09am | 1272Alpaca Launches Broker API That Lets You Build Your Own Robinhood Alpaca, a stock brokerage that allows developers to build apps, services, and trading platforms, formally announced the launch of Broker API, as well as an expansion of its investment and leadership team. Public Connects Users With...
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Fintech Focus For April 23, 2021
Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 6:40pm | 1773Quote To Start The Day: You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down. Source: Charlie Chaplin One Big Thing In Fintech: Ant Group, operator of popular Chinese mobile payment service Alipay, plans to slash its direct carbon emissions by nearly a third by 2025 as part of its...
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Fintech Focus For February 22, 2021
Sunday, February 21, 2021 - 3:15pm | 2088Quote 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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Trading App Public Ends Payment For Order Flow, Says It'll Generate Revenue With Tips
Monday, February 1, 2021 - 6:34pm | 336Investing social network Public.com is changing its business practices, ending a controversial practice brought to light by the rapid rise in GameStop Corp's (NYSE: GME) valuation. What Happened: Public, which has celebrity backers like Will Smith, Tony Hawk, J.J. Watt and The...
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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 Roundup For August 29, 2020
Friday, August 28, 2020 - 5:29pm | 1158Public Investing App Raises Funds What Happened: Public, a commission-free and fractional trading investment app backed by Will Smith’s Dreamers VC and NFL star J.J. Watt, among others, formally announced professor and entrepreneur Scott Galloway made an investment in the company. Why Does...
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Fintech Focus For August 27, 2020
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 - 6:18pm | 2221Quote 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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Scott Galloway Joins Will Smith's Dreamers VC, NFL Star JJ Watt With Public App Investment
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 - 7:30am | 306Public, a commission-free and fractional trading investment app backed by Will Smith’s Dreamers VC and NFL star J.J. Watt, among others, formally announced professor and entrepreneur Scott Galloway made an investment in the company. What Happened? Launched in 2019, Public is a globally...
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Trading App Public's CEO: 'Gates Are Wide Open' On Wall Street
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 3:57pm | 797Jannick Malling, co-founder and co-CEO of the trading app Public, joined Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep show Wednesday to discuss Public’s social trading platform, how the company is protecting inexperienced traders in a volatile market and his personal investing strategy. Making...
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Fintech Focus For August 12, 2020
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - 6:38pm | 2605Daily Perspective: Growth can heal a lot of sins. - Cathie Wood Fintech Movers: American Express Company is in talks with Kabbage, an online fintech lender backed by Softbank, over an $850 million acquisition. - Benzinga Finicity: The COVID Credit Crisis. Infor, CIBC, SunStream partner. A GM...
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Public Closes $15M Funding Round, Promises To Make 'Stock Markets Accessible To Everyone'
Monday, March 2, 2020 - 3:16pm | 251Public, a commission-free and fractional trading investing app, formally announced the closure of a $15M Series B funding round, led by Accel and Greycroft, Will Smith’s Dreamers VC, NFL star J.J. Watt, Girlboss founder Sophia Amoruso, creator and entrepreneur Casey Neistat, Behance founder...