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

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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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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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0:40 IBM loves DLT
7:10 Goldman Sachs skeptical about cryptocurrencies
13:35 Supergiant VC rounds
17:40 Chinese funding startups may get more reviews
22:30 Fintech dives into subprime credit cars
27:08 US SEC postpones Bitoin ETF
33:03 Final Byte

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Blockchain hype may have peaked, but IBM is still a believer
https://qz.com/1350355/blockchain-hype-has-peaked-but-ibm-is-still-a-believer/

Goldman Still Skeptical of Crypto Currencies
https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2018/goldman-sachs-cryptocurrency-mania-second-half-risk/amp

Supergiant VC rounds aren’t just raised in China
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/11/supergiant-vc-rounds-arent-just-raised-in-china/

Chinese funding of Silicon Valley startups gets more tense, with more oversight by American government.
https://www.economist.com/business/2018/08/11/silicon-valley-gets-queasy-about-chinese-money

Fintech Crowd Dives Into Subprime Credit-Card Lending
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fintech-crowd-dives-into-subprime-credit-card-lending-1534189198?mod=hp_lead_pos4

US SEC Postpones Decision Regarding Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund
https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-sec-postpones-decision-regarding-bitcoin-exchange-traded-fund

Financial crisis cost every American $70,000
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-13/the-financial-crisis-cost-every-american-70-000-fed-study-says

Communist Party of China Releases Primer on Blockchain Technology
https://cointelegraph.com/news/communist-party-of-china-releases-primer-on-blockchain-technology

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0:50 Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data
6:50 Regulatory Sandbox For FinTech
14:14 Lemonade Sells Home Insurance to Millenials
20:00 Senior Citizens Get Support From Financial Technology
24:28 FOMO3D
31:38 Final Byte

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Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-data-well-give-you-our-users-1533564049

How important is the government’s new regulatory sandbox for crypto?
https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/05/how-important-is-the-governments-new-regulatory-sandbox-for-crypto/

Selling Millenials Home Insurance Is Lemonade’s Novel Pitch
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-02/lemonade-wants-to-sell-millennials-home-insurance

Senior Citizens Get Support From Financial Technology
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-07/senior-citizens-get-support-from-financial-technology

FOMO3D
https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/fomo3d-is-the-game-with-a-usd9-million-cryptocurrency-prize-real-or-a-scam.html

Only one in three AI projects reported to succeed
https://www.information-management.com/news/only-one-in-three-ai-projects-reported-to-succeed?brief=00000159-ffbf-d8bf-af7b-ffbf558d0000

Fintech firm Even Financial to expand offerings after raising $25M
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/api-oriented-fintech-to-enter-new-verticals-after-raising-25m

‘The Beginning of a Wave’: A.I. Tiptoes Into the Workplace
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/technology/workplace-ai.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftechnology&action=click&contentCollection=technology&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

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0:45 Google Chatbot for Enterprise
4:28 Landbot the anti-AI chatbot
8:08 Ant Financial Profile
18:20 IBM Blockchain Appstore
24:50 Banks Searching for Blockchain Applications
27:05 Employee App For Daily Pay
33:36 Final Byte

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Google, Microsoft And Startups Are Going To War On Chatbot Technology
https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/07/27/google-microsoft-and-startups-are-going-to-war-on-chatbot-technology/#4bde97c661b6

Landbot gets $2.2M for its on-message ‘anti-AI’ chatbot
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/19/landbot-gets-2-2m-for-its-on-message-anti-ai-chatbot/

Jack Ma’s Giant Financial Startup Is Shaking the Chinese Banking System
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jack-mas-giant-financial-startup-is-shaking-the-chinese-banking-system-1532885367

IBM’s blockchain app store wants to help banks cut costs

IBM and FX Giant CLS Team Up to Launch Blockchain App Store for Banks

Banks Still Searching for Practical Applications for Blockchain Technology
https://bankinnovation.net/2018/07/banks-still-searching-for-practical-applications-for-blockchain-technology/?utm_source=Bank+Innovation&utm_campaign=19181ffb8a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c7c396d894-19181ffb8a-39512165

Employers Embrace Apps That Let Them Pay Daily
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-24/employers-embrace-apps-that-let-them-pay-daily

SEC’s New Crypto Czar Wants Coin Industry to Step Out of Shadows
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/jiujitsu-is-easy-to-sec-crypto-czar-rapport-with-coinsters-hard?srnd=cryptocurriences

Nobody Says ‘Zelle Me’: Banks Struggle to Catch Up to Venmo
https://www.wsj.com/articles/zelle-struggles-to-prove-its-not-just-another-payments-app-1533038401?mod=hp_featst_pos1

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1:50 Top 5 Largest Fintech Firms
10:50 Cashless Society Is A Con
15:43 Snapchat Gets Out Of Payments
18:23 Final Bytes

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The Top 5 Largest Fintech Firms
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/

The cashless society is a con – and big finance is behind it
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/venture-capital-q2-2018/

P2P payments are HARD
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/22/snapcashing-out/

FinTech Consortium Announces Flagship North American Location
https://www.fintech-consortium.com/single-post/2018/07/16/FinTech-Consortium-Announces-Flagship-North-American-Location-and-USA-Chairman

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