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Facebook Building Cryptocurrency-Based Payments System https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-building-cryptocurrency-based-payments-system-11556837547?mod=mhp
Some Small Businesses See Big Benefits in Online Financing https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-small-businesses-see-big-benefits-in-online-financing-11557662401
LatAm: The New Kid at the FinTech Table https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/17256/latam-the-new-kid-at-the-fintech-table
U.S. Credit-Card Delinquency Rates Rising, Particularly Among the Young https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-credit-card-delinquency-rates-rising-particularly-among-the-young-11557846130?mod=hp_major_pos12
376 Wallets Holding One-Third of All ETH https://ethereumworldnews.com/ethereums-decentralization-in-question-with-376-wallets-holding-one-third-of-all-eth/
10,000 Baltimore city workers locked out after https://www.npr.org/2019/05/21/725118702/ransomware-cyberattacks-on-baltimore-put-city-services-offline
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E*Trade enabling crypto trading would make it the largest crypto security brokerages in the world
PayPal makes a big marketplace play with its $500M investment in Uber
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Facebook stock goes up despite record fine
15 Months of fresh hell inside Facebook
A Mass Murder of, and for, the Internet
‘996’ Is China’s Version of Hustle Culture. Tech Workers Are Sick of It.
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In this week’s show, we discuss T-Mobile’s (and seemingly everyone else’s) entry into consumer checking accounts, credit card partnerships with influencers, and Silicon Valley groupthink.
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T-Mobile Introduces a Checking Account Money
https://www.t-mobilemoney.com/en/home.html
Unicorn Blitzscaling Reveals SV Groupthink
Influencers and credit cards
https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-card-issuers-boost-spending-on-social-media-ads-11556011801
Masayoshi Son lost $130 million in bad bet on bitcoin
Carl Icahn sold Lyft stake before IPO
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/carl-icahn-sold-lyft-stake-ahead-of-ipo.html
Will John McAfee unmask Bitcoin creator?
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www.Flybits.com; https://twitter.com/hosinux
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Can London threaten San Francisco’s fintech unicorn dominance?
You Pay for Netflix and Spotify Monthly. What About Financial Planning?
Goldman wants to pay students $100,000 to tackle Wall Street’s technology challenges
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/us/trash-pickers-san-francisco-zuckerberg.html
http://fortune.com/2019/04/09/term-sheet-tuesday-april-9/
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Apple to Launch Services and Apple Card https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-to-launch-new-magazine-service-called-apple-news-plus-11553534113?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=4
New Jersey bill would broaden PII requiring breach notification https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/new-jersey-bill-would-broaden-pii-requiring-breach-notification/
Venmo to Users: If You Owe Us Money, We’re Coming for It https://www.wsj.com/articles/venmo-to-users-if-you-owe-us-money-were-coming-for-it-11553518800?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=3
ZestFinance Using AI To Bring Fairness To Mortgage Lending https://www.forbes.com/sites/donnafuscaldo/2019/03/19/zestfinance-using-ai-to-bring-fairness-to-mortgage-lending/#305996d17f2d
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Impact of social credit in China
https://www.apnews.com/9d43f4b74260411797043ddd391c13d8
Global Payments Merger
Why Goldman Sachs Is Interested in a Small Bike Shop in Mexico
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Amazon is working with Mexico’s government-backed bank on a mobile payments system
‘Free’ Electricity for Students Makes College Campuses Major Crypto Miners
Crypto Mystery: Quadriga’s Wallets Are Empty, Putting Fate Of $137 Million In Doubt
Lyft’s IPO shows some shareholders are more equal than others
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Interview with regtech firm ShieldFC.com CEO and co-founder Shiran Weitzman
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Click Subscribe to keep up to date on the world of fintech! Reach us at info@fintechnewscast.com or at @fintechnewscast onTwitter. Article Links Cryptocurrency Was Their Way Out of South Korea’s Lowest Rungs. They’re Still Trying Tencent buys a chunk of Reddit Latest Funding Values Reddit at 3 Billion How MIT Joined Ethereum in the Race for the PoS Blockchain The Current State of AI Adoption Morgan Stanley, in Its Biggest Deal Since Crisis, Courts Future Millionaires Spotify Buys Podcast Players Gimlet Media & Anchor; Eyes $500M In 2019 Deals
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North Korea Uses Cryptocurrency to Bypass Sanctions
Iran Finalizes National Cryptocurrency Draft Document
The Problem in Russia Isn’t a Lack of Free Speech But a Lack of Free Markets
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BlackRock Exposes Confidential Data on Thousands of Advisers on iShares Site
Revolut’s clumsy automated bank compliance results in frozen accounts
The Power Of Celebrity Fintech Influencers
The Clearing House Gets Going With Real-Time Payments
Fintech sector hurt by shutdown
China’s Internet Watchdog Closes Hundreds of Websites, Criticizes Tencent App
Cardi B shutdown rant
https://www.instagram.com/p/BstmkvDFGAm/
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Fiserv buys First Data, another competitor in payments space
The Hot New Job in Fintech: Someone to Deal With Regulators
Square Launches Free Business Debit Card
Fintech firms want to shake up banking, and that worries the Fed
$16 m Series A funding round for Chronicled
HACK BRIEF: AN ASTONISHING 773 MILLION RECORDS EXPOSED IN MONSTER BREACH
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Ethereum classic trading halted by Coinbase
Square pushing into in-app payment processing
German mobile bank N26 joins Europe’s unicorn club with $2.7 billion valuation
PayPal Quietly Took Over the Checkout Button
In 2019, blockchains will start to become boring
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Robinhood delays money market account rollout
Robinhood Gets Almost Half Its Revenue in Controversial Bargain With High-Speed Traders
Square is Yahoo Finance’s 2018 Company of the Year
B-Social raises £3.2M seed round to begin building a ‘social’ bank
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