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Robinhood delays money market account rollout
Robinhood Gets Almost Half Its Revenue in Controversial Bargain With High-Speed Traders
Square is Yahoo Finance’s 2018 Company of the Year
B-Social raises £3.2M seed round to begin building a ‘social’ bank
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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
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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What Bear Markets Look Like
Satis Group
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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
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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
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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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
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®ion=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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