Ep 69 – Why Visa acquired Plaid, Your financial advisor may be pushing crypto soon and more!

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Why Visa Is Buying Fintech Startup Plaid For $5.3 Billion

Hackers Cripple Airport Currency Exchanges, Seeking $6 Million Ransom

Spencer Dinwiddie Launching Digital Token Next Week

Cryptocurrency Top Of Mind For Growing Number Of Financial Advisors

Ep 68 – Predictions for 2020, ESG standards, and more!

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Banking predictions for 2020 – more competition, more collaboration and new sources of revenue

Goldman Sachs will reorganize its reporting lines and introduce a dedicated consumer banking unit

Why Fintech Challengers May Not Conquer Banking After All

Banks Taking a Closer Look at ESG Risks in Credit Underwriting

How Starbucks Borrows A Free US$1.6 Billion Loan From Its Customers

Ep 67- Finra Fine, Venmo vs. PNC, and fintechs behaving badly

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PNC’s fight with Venmo highlights bigger issue over who owns your banking data

Rule Change Could Help Tech Firms Advance Into Banking

JPMorgan’s CIO Has Championed A Data Platform That Turbocharges AI

Robinhood Fined $1.25 Million by Finra After Broker Violations

Lawsuit accuses Synapse CEO of discrimination and harassment against women

PayPal’s Xoom Rolls Out Bill Pay For Users In Jamaica

Ep 66 – Fintechs, Banks, and Surveillance Capitalism

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‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism

Ep 65- Crypto hacktivist arrested for North Korea trip, Banks want to sell your data, and more!

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He Gave a Cryptocurrency Talk in North Korea. The U.S. Arrested Him.

For Banks, Data on Your Spending Habits Could Be a Gold Mine

Corporate debt nears a record $10 trillion, and borrowing binge poses new risks

Ep 64 – FIntech Q3 2019 report, crypto news, and more!

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Global Fintech Report Q3 2019

BRICS member nations propose creating a cryptocurrency for payment settlements

‘Bark-lays’ invites stressed students to in-branch puppy session

Andreessen Horowitz leads $5M round in blockchain-based internet archive

Ep 63- Third wave fintech, Revolut raises mammoth round and more!

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Revolut plans to raise $500 million next year to fund global expansion

How Fintech’s Third Wave Will Change How You Bank

A $45,000 Loan for a $27,000 Ride: More Borrowers Are Going Underwater on Car Loans

EP 62- Investments in LatAm, full service fintechs and more!

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Uber’s Fintech Strategy: A Conversation With Peter Hazlehurst, Head Of Uber Money

Big VC Deals Will Delay Mexico’s First Fintech IPO

Building The Bank Of The Future

Bank of America to hike minimum wage for all employees to $20 per hour a year ahead of schedule

Ep 59 – NYSE Bitcoin Futures, Central Bank Cryptos and more!

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NYSE Owner to Launch Long-Awaited Bitcoin Futures

The Coming Currency War: Digital Money vs. the Dollar

Overstock’s Venture Arm Invests $2 Million in Blockchain ID Firm

Ep 58 – Hedera Hasgraph, Communist Cuban Crypto and more!

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Need Cash? Companies Are Considering Magazine Subscriptions and Phone Bills When Making Loans

Skirting U.S. Sanctions, Cubans Flock to Cryptocurrency to Shop Online, Send Funds

Hedera Hashgraph, Touted as High-Speed Blockchain Alternative, Now Live

2.4% of consumers consider their digital bank to be their primary bank

Start-ups to grab $280 billion in banking payments revenues by 2025, study says

SBI, largest lender bank in India, is eliminating debit cards

Ep 57-Chase outmaneouvers Square, a whale pulls out of Bitcoin, and more!

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Chase Outmaneuvers Square, Putting Fun Into Fintech

Day Trading for a Living?

Executives Say $1 Billion for AI Research Isn’t Enough

Ep 56- Andreessen Woos Regulators, New Kind Of Stock Exchange and more

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Venture-Capital Stalwart Battles Washington’s Crypto Crackdown

The Long Term Stock Exchange Raises $50 Million, Filings Show

$2 Billion Hacked by North Korea according to a UN report

How Matchmaking Robots Are Shaking Up Global Bond Sales

6 futuristic jobs that will soon exist in the financial industry

Ep 54- Global fintech investment plummets, Shenzen as a Bay Area alternative, Don’t bet against big banks and more!

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China to Boost Shenzhen’s Role in Greater Bay Area Innovation

Nine reasons to bank on traditional banking

Even fintech startups battling to meet cyber security challenges

Global fintech investment plummets

Silicon Valley Looks North as Tech Giants Expand in Toronto

How Credit Unions Fit in Your Financial Life

Ep 53- Joust, Investigation into payday advance startups, Coinbase attempted hack, and more!

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Joust raises $2.6 million seed round for the nation’s first banking platform for freelancers

State Regulators Investigate Payday Advances

An attempted heist at Coinbase was scary good, even though it failed

The Apple Card is a “World Elite” Mastercard

$4.3M amount received by Blade to reshape cryptocurrency derivatives trading

Ep 52- A macro look at fintech, how blockchain lost its luster, and more!

https://www.cbinsights.com/reports/CB-Insights_Blockchain-In-Review.pdf

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/swedish-payments-firm-klarna-hits-5point5-billion-dollar-valuation.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-02/indonesia-cracks-whip-on-mushrooming-illegal-fintech-firms

https://coingeek.com/us-crypto-tax-bill-would-give-holders-a-little-relief/

Ep 51- The Chinese miracle of MYBank, Capital One breach, and more!

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Jack Ma’s Online Bank Is Leading a Quiet Revolution in Chinese Lending https://fortune.com/2019/07/29/jack-ma-mybank-lending/

Here’s What You Need to Know About the Capital One Breach https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/business/capital-one-breach.html

Clearbanc plans to disrupt venture capital with ‘The 20-Min Term Sheet’ https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/03/clearbanc-plans-to-disrupt-venture-capital-with-the-20-min-term-sheet/

Equifax breach settlement: You’re not getting that $125. Here’s why https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/31/equifax-cant-pay-full-125-breach-settlement-claims/1879942001/

1 in 5 European Crypto Holders are Women, New Report Reveals https://www.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/1-in-5-european-crypto-holders-are-women-new-report-reveals-1940241

Ep 50 – AssureHedge CEO Barry McCarthy

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https://assurehedge.com

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/irish-fintech-firm-assure-hedge-receives-full-uk-authorisation-1.3505665

https://www.ft.com/content/4750c682-ac8c-11e9-8030-530adfa879c2

Ep 49 – Goldman Goes Retail and Facebook Goes to Washington

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Goldman Sachs is fueling Lendable’s platform with $249 million https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-fuels-alt-lenders-platform-with-249-million-2019-7

Raisin picks up $28M backing from Goldman Sachs https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/16/goldman-sachs-backs-raisin/

Congress Unites to Take Aim at Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/technology/big-tech-antitrust-hearing.html

Facebook privately pitched its cryptocurrency plan last month to regulators. They were left even more scared. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/16/facebook-privately-pitched-its-cryptocurrency-plan-last-month-regulators-they-were-left-even-more-scared/?utm_term=.f88a9a7ceae4

A.I. has a bias problem and that can be a big challenge in cybersecurity https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/ai-has-a-bias-problem-that-can-be-a-big-challenge-in-cybersecurity.html

Ep 48 – French taxes, the IMF fintech trends, proptech, and more!

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U.S. Begins Inquiry Into French Digital Services Tax That May End in Tariffs https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/business/us-france-tariffs.html

Commercial Property Joins Tech Revolution as Spending Soars https://www.wsj.com/articles/commercial-property-joins-tech-revolution-as-spending-soars-11562068801

Momentum Builds for Automation in Construction https://www.wsj.com/articles/momentum-builds-for-automation-in-construction-11562073426

With Defaults and Failures at India’s Shadow Banks, ‘Confidence Is Shaking’ https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-defaults-and-failures-at-indias-shadow-banks-confidence-is-shaking-11562232603

Bloomberg Real Estate Issue https://www.bloomberg.com/magazine/businessweek/19_09

Five IMF Facts on Fintech https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Policy-Papers/Issues/2019/06/27/Fintech-The-Experience-So-Far-47056

Hedge Funds Post Best First Half in Decade https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-08/hedge-funds-post-best-first-half-in-decade-as-equities-lead-way