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Shopify Merchants Can Now Accept Digital Currencies
Retail commerce company Shopify unveiled a slew of announcements this week, one of which caught our eye. The Canada-based fintech joined forces with cryptocurrency payments processor CoinPayments to...
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By Miles Raises $18 Million for Pay-By-Mile Auto Insurance
With the coronavirus keeping drivers off the road, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding auto insurance. In fact, many providers have recognized the decreased daily mileage (and the increased...
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FinovateSpring Takes Over the Blog
Photo by Jose Rago on Unsplash This would have been the week of FinovateSpring. However, instead of flying out to San Francisco to gather in person, we are all at home this week thanks to the global...
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Facebook Rebrands Calibra to Novi
Photo by Franck V. on Unsplash If you’re trying to launch a successful global currency, getting the brand name right is key. That must be what Facebook was thinking this week when it changed the name...
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Wealthfront’s Biggest Weapon During a Pandemic
Wealthfront has been around the proverbial fintech block a few times. The San Francisco-based wealthtech company launched near the dawn of fintech under the name KaChing in 2008 and demoed its...
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Coinbase to Buy Tagomi to Appeal to Sophisticated Investors
Photo by Mohamed Masaau on Unsplash The fintech landscape is changing and digital currency wallet and crypto exchange platform Coinbase is ready to change right along with it. This is evident in the...
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Fintech Analysts Speak Out About COVID-19
We’re used to things changing fast in the fintech industry, but in the past few months, we’ve seen even more rapid change. That’s the reason behind the latest series on the Finovate podcast: Fintech...
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Marqeta Lands $150 Million, Boosts Valuation to $4.3 Billion
Photo by Georgie Cobbs on Unsplash In a world of shrinking valuations and declining VC funding, payments company Marqeta is bucking the norm. The California-based company announced today it raised...
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How the Coronavirus Impacts the Appetite for Cryptocurrency
Photo by Sander Dalhuisen on Unsplash We’ve heard a lot about how the coronavirus has made an impact across the fintech realm, but what about in the crypto space? With an unstable stock market, why...
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6 Things to Consider while Testing Financial Applications
Photo by jeshoots.com on Unsplash The following is a guest post by Hemanth Kumar Yamjala, Associate Manager in Digital Marketing at Cigniti Technologies. Testing financial applications is the need of...
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Going Live: How Some Banks are Dealing with Remote Implementation
Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash What is the safest way for banks to go live with new tools in the height of a global pandemic? Remotely, of course! This is the reality that many bank and third party...
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Fintech Halftime Review: Rewinding, Assessing, and Looking Forward
2020 has been quite a year. No one could have predicted the strides the fintech industry has made in digital transformation, the dramatic change in the way consumers use physical bank branches, or the...
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Personal Capital Helps Investors Worried about the “What If” of Future...
Not that we didn’t see it coming, but the National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared yesterday that the U.S. entered into a recession in February. With the market volatility over the...
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Status Money Launches Premium Membership
Budgeting and financial comparison platform Status recently made a tweak to its business model. Company Founder and CEO Majd Maksad recently sent an email to users saying that the company launched a...
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How Does Fintech Affect Ecommerce?
The following is a guest post by Jake Rheude, Vice President of Marketing for order fulfillment company Red Stag Fulfillment. Fintech has dramatically shifted the way people and enterprises use and...
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Amazon Partners with Goldman Sachs on New Line of Credit Offering
Symbiotic relationships, like the way bees help flowers pollinate while harvesting nectar to feed their colonies, can be found all over nature. They are also quite common in fintech. The latest...
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Does Your Bank Need a Chief Medical Officer?
In some parts of the globe, cities are slowly relaxing their social distancing guidelines. Businesses are beginning to open up and residents are once again venturing out to offices and into...
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Quicken Loans Planning IPO
CNBC reported today that Quicken Loans is planning to go public this year. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan are helping manage the deal. Founded in 1985 by Dan Gilbert,...
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WhatsApp Launches In-App Payments
Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp announced today that users in Brazil can now send payments within its app. The digital payments capabilities, powered by Facebook Pay, will allow users to send...
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What Ethnic Diversity Efforts Can Apply from the Women in Fintech Movement
I feel the need to start this piece with a disclaimer: Racial bias and gender bias are two completely different issues. Both women and people of color, however, face stereotypes and suffer from wage...
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