-
Fintech Focus For March 22, 2021
Sunday, March 21, 2021 - 9:38pm | 1881Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “I didn’t come into this job expecting a 9am-5pm’s, but I also didn’t expect consistent 9am-5am’s either.” Source: Goldman Analyst One Big Thing In Fintech: To keep up with emerging technology, self-made billionaire Mark Cuban is always...
-
Stripe Now Valued At $95B: Could SPAC Deal Or IPO Be Years Away?
Monday, March 15, 2021 - 11:32am | 396Read More...Stripe, a fintech company with headquarters in Ireland and North America, has announced a new funding round of $600 million. What Happened: Investors in the funding round including Allianz, Axa, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity, Squoia and the National Treasury Management Agency of Ireland. The...
-
Stripe Is The Most Expensive Startup In US With $95B Valuation
Monday, March 15, 2021 - 11:08am | 1024Read More...Payments technology provider Stripe has raised $600 million in additional funding for a $95 billion valuation, making the firm the most valuable startup in the U.S., according to CB Insights, which pegs the company's valuation second only to China's Bytedance in the world. Bytedance is valued at $...
-
Fintech Focus For March 15, 2021
Sunday, March 14, 2021 - 7:50pm | 1808Read More...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...
-
Fintech Focus For March 3, 2021
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - 10:57pm | 2042Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing. Source: Nassim Nicholas Taleb One Big Thing In Fintech: The electronic Chinese yuan is now being tested in cities such as Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing. No other major power is as far along with a...
-
Fintech Focus For February 25, 2021
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - 10:06pm | 1647Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Technology is the best enabler of banking the unbanked. Source: Sultan Meghji One Big Thing In Fintech: An outage at the Federal Reserve is creating settlement issues for many financial institutions and exchanges. The Fed's service status page shows that most of its...
-
Fintech Focus For February 23, 2021
Monday, February 22, 2021 - 8:15pm | 2037Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “Bitcoin prices have continued their meteoric rise with Tesla, BNY Mellon and Mastercard’s announcements of greater acceptance of cryptocurrencies,” JPMorgan said in a research note last week. “But fintech innovation and increased demand for digital...
-
Fintech Focus For February 4, 2021
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 7:32pm | 1893Read More...Quote To Start The Day: We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. Source: Helen Keller One Big Thing In Fintech: Seedrs and Crowdcube were created as forward-thinking Fintechs leveraging technology to match investors with private firms in a sector traditionally dominated by...
-
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...
-
Fintech Focus For January 28, 2021
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 7:11pm | 2075Read More...Quote To Start The Day: I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Source: Bruce Lee One Big Thing In Fintech: StockCharts, the web's leading technical analysis and financial charting platform for online retail investors, today announced that they have eclipsed 1.6 million users...
-
Fintech Focus For January 27, 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 8:57pm | 2806Read More...Quote To Start The Day: October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. Source: Mark Twain One Big Thing In Fintech: Greenwood Financial, a new challenger bank...
-
Payments Processor Stripe Latest To Ban Trump Amid Burgeoning Tech Backlash
Monday, January 11, 2021 - 3:01am | 461Read More...Financial technology company Stripe Inc will no longer process Trump campaign payments, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. What Happened: The San Francisco, California-based company is halting payments processing for the Trump campaign for violating its policies against encouraging violence,...
-
'Liquidity Jumping': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, December 13, 2020 - 6:35pm | 1495Read More...The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: After auctioning to new all-time highs, U.S. index futures moved back into balance. Remember This: “With Global Liquidity jumping by some US $20 trillion in 2020, or some 25% of World GDP, there is a lot to spend... Consider that following the 1930s...
-
Fintech Focus For December 11, 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 6:51pm | 2295Read More...Quote To Start The Day: US President Donald Trump and his backers, having been stymied dozens of times by judges and elections officials across the country, are confident one last-ditch lawsuit will overturn his election loss. “All I ask for is people with wisdom and with courage, that...
-
Fintech Focus For December 4, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 8:49pm | 2010Read More...Quote To Start The Day: One can look at a SPAC as the reverse of a traditional IPO. A SPAC goes public first—usually with a highly regarded executive team able to raise money from large institutional investors—with the intent to acquire a private company to put in its shell within...





