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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

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fidelity-national-information-services-to-buy-worldpay-for-35-billion-11552895935?mod=hp_lead_pos3

Why Goldman Sachs Is Interested in a Small Bike Shop in Mexico

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-goldman-sachs-is-interested-in-a-small-bike-shop-in-mexico-11552555801

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Amazon is working with Mexico’s government-backed bank on a mobile payments system

The New Way to Deregulate

‘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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India Proposes Chinese-Style Internet Censorship

Ask Any Stock Market Pro: Buying Is Easy, Selling Is Hard

The Confusing World of Venmo Etiquette

Small banks you’ve never heard of are quietly enabling the tech takeover of the financial industry

Introducing the Wealthfront Cash Account

China Freezes $1.5 Billion of P2P Assets in Intensified Probe

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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

Venezuelan PetroDollar

Iran Finalizes National Cryptocurrency Draft Document

The U.S. Case Against Huawei

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

Adiós, bolívar

Cardi B shutdown rant
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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

RIP Jack Bogle, father of index funds and the man who is most responsible for lower fees in the asset management world

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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Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in its Wake

 

Layoffs Become the Latest Thing in Cryptocurrency

 

Barclays debuts spend blocker for vulnerable customers

 

Microsoft is UBS’ cloud provider of choice, validating a Swizz gamble for MS

 

2019 Fintech Trends

 

Marriott Hacking Exposes Data of Up to 500 Million Guests

 

Bitcoin-Friendly Cash App Tops PayPal in Google Play Store

 

Valued at over $1.2 billion, Toss is Korea’s first fintech unicorn

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8 Trends That Will Reshape The FinTech Landscape In 2019

4 Major Fintech Trends In The Self-Directed IRA Industry

SEC Launches New Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology

Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don’t call back when asked for evidence

SEC Informs DJ Khaled That He Has Played Himself

AriseBank CEO faces 120 years in jail for million-dollar scam

How One Stubborn Banker Exposed a $200 Billion Russian Money-Laundering Scandal

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What Bear Markets Look Like

What Bear Markets Look Like

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Bitcoin bull Tom Lee stands by his reduced year-end $15,000 target despite nose-diving prices
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/20/fundstrat-tom-lee-stands-by-15000-dollar-year-end-bitcoin-target-as-prices-sink.html

Beijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/beijing-to-judge-every-resident-based-on-behavior-by-end-of-2020

Ohio ‘rolls out the red carpet’ for blockchain businesses by accepting bitcoin this tax season
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/29/ohio-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-blockchain-businesses-by-accepting-bitcoin-this-tax-season.html

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Israeli Projects Raised Over $600 Million via ICOs as of Q3 2018

People who use mobile fintech apps tend to make worse financial decisions

SoFi struggles with rising rates

Squaring Venture Capital Valuations With Reality

A Whirlwind Fintech Romance Heads for Divorce

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China’s P2P lenders say regulation will cause industry collapse

Police lock down Beijing’s financial district to thwart protests

Capital One’s “tech transformation”

Silicon Valley stunned by China’s tech culture

CryptoKitties Developer Receives $15 Mln in Financing Round Led by Rockefeller Venture Arm

SMS Phishing + Cardless ATM = Profit

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BitGo, Crypto Startups To Put Bitcoin (BTC) On Ethereum Blockchain

IBM Thinks Really Different with Red Hat

Warren Buffett’s Firm Invests Millions in Fintech

Bitcoin Could Theoretically Put Paris Climate Goals Out of Reach

JPMorgan to Build a Silicon Valley Campus for 1,000 Employees

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The Next Tech Talent Shortage: Quantum Computing Researchers

Umpqua Sells Digital Banking Innovation Unit to Fintech

Tron (TRX) is Better than Ethereum (ETH), and BitTorrent Will Make It Even Better; Justin Sun Says

Crypto Startup That Lets You ‘Short’ Ethereum Raises $10 Million

Payments app Zelle is gaining ground on heavyweight PayPal as fintech apps battle for a piece of a $167 billion market

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