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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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Ep 20-Israeli blockchain projects, Struggles at SoFi, Mobile user financial problems and more!

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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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Ep 19- China crackdown on P2P, Silicon Valley goes to China, Cap One, Payments deep dive, and more!

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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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Ep 18- Wrapped cryptos, Berkshire Hathaway invests in fintech, IBM aims for the cloud, and more!

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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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Ep 17- IBM creates open banking initiative, Tron coin, Umpqua, and more!

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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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Ep 16- Fidelity delves into bitcoin, Accenture thinks the sky is falling (or is it?), and Etherium grants $3M to startups

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Fidelity Says It Will Trade Bitcoin for Hedge Funds

Billionaire Mike Novogratz’ Crypto Fund is Fidelity’s First Custodian Client

Ethereum Foundation Awards Nearly $3 Million in Startup Grants

Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork is Being Delayed Until 2019

Banks’ Revenue Growth at Risk Due to Unprecedented Competitive Pressure Resulting from Digital Disruption

Beyond North Star Gazing

Star Shifting

Which Fintech Startup Holds The Key To Argentina’s Future?

North Korean Hacking Group Lazarus Stole $571 Million in Cryptos: Report

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Ep 15 – Cryptokitties, Flipkart, Nubank, Islamic finance, and more!

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Beyond CryptoKitties: Is There A Place For Blockchain In The B2C Market?

Here is Why Flipkart is Keen to Enter the Financial Services Sector

Tencent invests in Brazil fintech startup Nubank

The Price of Financial Advice Is, Finally, Falling

Credit-Card Startup Brex Seeks $1 Billion Valuation in New Round

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Ep 14- Stablecoins, AT&T down with DLT, Bots, Ripple, and more!

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The crypto world is going wild for ‘stablecoins’ – here’s everything you need to know about them

3 More Stablecoins Coming to Market in Q4 2018

AT&T Dives Into Blockchain Solutions With Microsoft Azure, IBM Blockchain

Blockchain Startups’ Latest Attention Grab: Snapping up Nobel Prize-Winning Brains

Bots Are Manipulating Price of Bitcoin in ‘Wild West of Crypto’

U.S. fintech startup Stripe valued at $20 billion in latest funding round

Coinbase, the startup at the core of the crypto craze, is now considered an $8 billion company

Up 80%: XRP’s September Wasn’t Just Bullish, It Was Record-Setting

Ripple’s XRP has doubled in the run-up to its Swell conference

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Ep 13- Square wants to be your bank, old vs. new banking, JPM’s cross-border blockchain consortium, and more!

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Square is considering offering investment and savings products through its Cash App

Venmo Looks to New Leader to Overcome ‘Growing Pains’

Wealth-Management Firms Battle Over Millennials

Coinbase Just Partnered With A Token Startup in Bid to Attract Pro Traders

RBS Blockchain Team Jumps Ship to Build New Startups Using R3’s Corda

75 banks have now joined JPMorgan to test blockchain payments

West Virginia Introduces Blockchain Voting App for Midterm Election

Walmart Requires Certain Produce Suppliers to Deploy Blockchain Technology

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Ep 12- Effects of the Great Recession; What could fuel the next recession, women in Fintech, RIpple, and more!

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The World of Today Brought To You By The Financial Crisis

These 10 Risks Could Cause The Next Crisis

Could Women In Fintech Stop Another Lehman Brothers Collapse From Happening?

Ripple hints its cryptocurrency product will go live ‘in the next month or so’

Facebook and Financial Firms Tussled for Years Over Access to User Data

Mastercard, Visa Agree to Settle Merchant Antitrust Suit

Funding Circle $2.6 Billion IPO Tests Post-Adyen Fintech Demand

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Ep 11- HSBC wants to sink the competition, Blockchain-as-a-service, Ant FInancial, and more!

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Continue reading Ep 11- HSBC wants to sink the competition, Blockchain-as-a-service, Ant FInancial, and more!

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Ep 10- Google buys Mastercard data, LINE gets into fintech, Wonga falters, and more!

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Ep 9- Jeanette Quick, Deputy General Counsel at Scratch

This week we have a conversation with Jeanette Quick, Deputy General Counsel at Scratch, a San Francisco-based loan servicing fintech firm. We discuss student debt in the US, the hodgepodge of regulations preventing competition in the loan processing industry, and much more!

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Ep 8- Why Europe doesn’t produce tech giants, open banking and challenger banks, and P2P lending stumbles in China

0:58 Why can’t Europe do tech?
14:16 Common data standards in banking
29:55 China bans new P2P online lenders
39:36 Final Byte

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Why can’t Europe do tech?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-16/inside-europe-s-struggle-to-build-a-truly-global-tech-giant

Why ForgeRock built a simulated bank for testing open banking APIs
https://www.computerworlduk.com/applications/why-did-forgerock-build-model-bank-for-testing-open-banking-apis-3682486/

A German fintech startup backed by Peter Thiel has raised $100 million
https://www.businessinsider.com/german-fintech-deposit-solutions-raises-100-million-2018-8

After public outcry, Beijing says it will ban new online lending platforms
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/13/peer-to-peer-outcry-china-says-will-ban-new-online-lending-platforms.html

Square stock hits record as Cash app reportedly passes Venmo in downloads
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/square-stock-hits-record-as-cash-app-reportedly-passes-venmo-in-downloads-2018-08-14

With Fast-Growing Fintechs Taking a Toll, Banks Will Soon Claim Less Than 50% of Payments Revenue

With Fast-Growing Fintechs Taking a Toll, Banks Will Soon Claim Less Than 50% of Payments Revenue

GenZ is about to take over millenials as biggest generation world has known
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/gen-z-to-outnumber-millennials-within-a-year-demographic-trends

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