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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 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 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

MasterCard, Microsoft, Workday and the Partnership for Public Service launched the Cybersecurity Talent Initiative

FICO scores inflated

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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/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-longest-u-s-bull-market-has-failed-to-fix-the-nations-public-pensions-11554888600

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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

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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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

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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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!

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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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Ep 28- The Rogue Economies episode

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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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Ep 27 – Blackrock and Revolut in trouble, fintech influencers, and more!

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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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Ep 26- Fiserv buys First Data, hot jobs in fintech, Square debit card, and more!

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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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