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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
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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
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Ep 47 – Design at Wells Fargo with Aaron Petrik
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Ep 46- The not-so-shady world of shadow banking, and will Libra upend the world financial system?
This week, the gang discusses shadow banking. What is it? Is it nefarious?
And of course, Facebook’s Libra made quite a splash this week. What gives?
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Ep 45 – Amazon’s new card, a twist to crypto funding and more!
Fintech platform Synapse raises $33M to build ‘the AWS of banking’ https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/07/synapse-raises-33m/
Crypto Startups Are Raising Money Again, With a Twist https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-startups-are-raising-money-again-with-a-twist-11559995203h
Amazon launches a credit card for the ‘underbanked’ with bad credit https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/10/amazon-launches-a-credit-card-for-the-underbanked-with-bad-credit.html
19 Blockchain-as-a-service Companies Making the DLT More Accessible https://builtin.com/blockchain/blockchain-as-a-service-companies
Mary Meeker’s internet trends slides https://www.bondcap.com/report/itr19/
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Ep 44- Allowances, crowdsourcing on Venmo, PayPal expands offerings, SEC sues Kik, and more!
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How Kids’ Allowance Works in the Smartphone Age https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-kids-allowance-works-in-the-smartphone-age-11559035800
When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-venmo-cash-app-twitter-crowdfund-money-20190602-story.html
SEC Sues Kik Over $100 Million ICO, Sees Kin as a Security https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-04/sec-sues-crypto-firm-that-s-raising-money-to-fight-regulator
New Startup-Focused Bank Gets More Than $100 Million From Investors https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-startup-focused-bank-gets-more-than-100-million-from-investors-11559216484?mod=mhp
PayPal opens up access to e-commerce platform that’s already used by Instagram and Facebook https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/03/paypal-rolls-out-e-commerce-platform-to-help-start-ups-compete-with-instagram-and-facebook.html
PayPal opens up access to e-commerce platform that’s already used by Instagram and Facebook https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/03/paypal-rolls-out-e-commerce-platform-to-help-start-ups-compete-with-instagram-and-facebook.html
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Ep 43 – Wading into Dark Pools
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Ep 42- Apple payments, Facebook crypto, small business lending and more!
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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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London challenges SF for fintech dominance, FICO score inflation, Goldman wants to hire you, and more!
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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Ep 37 – Product Design for Financial Services with Stas and Suzanne
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Ep 36 – All about privacy- Apple Card, New Jersey law on PII breaches, and more!
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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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Ep 35 – China’s Social Credit System, Payment Giants Merge and more!
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Impact of social credit in China
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Global Payments Merger
Why Goldman Sachs Is Interested in a Small Bike Shop in Mexico
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Ep 34 – BlueRun Ventures GP – Jonathan Ebinger
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Ep 33 – Mexican Digital Currency, CFPB Sandbox and more!
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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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Ep 32 – ShieldFC CEO Shiran Weitzman
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Interview with regtech firm ShieldFC.com CEO and co-founder Shiran Weitzman
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Ep 31-Great wall of India, Small banks power fintechs, Venmo etiquette and more!
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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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Ep 30- Korea’s crypto letdown, Tencent buys into Reddit, MIT blockchain, and more!
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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Ep 29 – gohenry co-founder Dean Brauer
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Ep 28- The Rogue Economies episode
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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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