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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Additionally, LendingClub’s stock has lost 88 percent of its value since its 2014 IPO. Many of Franklin’s published aphorisms have survived the test of time and remain quite familiar. A penny saved is a penny earned. Honesty is the best policy. Benjamin Franklin.

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What’s wrong with superannuation and can fintech help?

Jessica Ellerm

To give you some idea of what these issues are, here are just a few startling superannuation stats for the uninitiated, that are well worth putting your fintech opportunity hat on and considering. According to the Productivity Commission , in 2014-15, Australians paid about $12 billion in fees to APRA-regulated funds.

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Visa Logs 700M Visa Direct Transactions, Contactless Payments Surge

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Credit growth was better than last year and debit growth slowed slightly due to lapping tax reform, which had a positive impact on debit growth through all of last year. Travel and restaurant spending growth slowed, said Kelly. showed similar growth to last year. “We merchants to click to pay and the migration will be completed in the U.S.

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A Global Approach To Local B2B Payments Digitization

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percent between 2014 and 2014 representing the highest growth in a decade, researchers said. As security issues are overcome, increased collaboration and partnership within the new payments ecosystem will create business value for corporates, banks and FinTechs. The 2017 report , released Monday (Oct.

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What Apple Didn’t Tell You Last Week

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Stockholm is one of my favorite cities in the world and has become a real FinTech innovation hub. Sweden’s highest marginal tax rate is 57 percent, which most people actually pay since that rate applies to all income over 1.5 There’s a capital gains tax of 30 percent, too, and a sales tax of 25 percent.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Stripe went on to raise a seed round from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, and PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in 2011.

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The Periodic Table of Tech in India

CB Insights

As a result the investment total for 2016 was $3.4B, lower than both 2015 and 2014. Venture Capital. Our table features both India-based and foreign venture capital funds. This accounts for corporations and corporate venture capital arms that have made notable investments in India. Asia Tech Investment Report.

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