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Ex-Uber Exec To File $250M SPAC IPO Backed By Former Google CEO

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2) for DPCM Capital Inc. , Hims , a direct-to-consumer company selling health products targeted at millennials, is using a SPAC to go public , for example. Josh Harris , co-founder of Apollo Global Management , said the SPAC trend is not a flash in the pan. Emil Michael filed an S-1 prospectus on Friday (Oct.

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Best New Financial Apps 2016, The List

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Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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Google Pay Co-founders’ Indian Neobank Has Raised $13.2M

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million in a Seed funding round for its neo-bank epiFi, led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital, TechCrunch reported on Sunday (Jan. Also participating in the funding rounds were David Velez, Kunal Shah and VC fund Hillhouse Capital. Two co-founders of Google Pay in India have raised $13.2

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How Can Banks Thrive in the Next Five Years?

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My Remarks to Bank Client's Annual Meeting of Shareholders "I want to thank [Chairman] and the Board, [CEO] and the management team for asking me to come out and remark on where I think the banking industry is going over the next five years. They are/were the business owners, demanders of capital and loans, and significant depositors.

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Millennials Are Driving One Of The Biggest Trends In Wealth Tech

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Sudden volatility has shaken the markets and the state of wealth management. Find out what’s ahead for traditional wealth managers and wealth tech startups. Millennials stand to inherit approximately $30T from their parents, the baby boomers, in the coming decades, and both upstarts and advisors are vying for a piece of the pie.

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HowGood Rates Product Sustainability, Sees $4.2M Series A

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A number of major retail studies have shown that millennial consumers value the sustainability of brands and products when making purchases. million dollar Series A venture funding led by FirstMark Capital with additional participation from Contour Ventures, Humanity United and Serious Change LP, among others.

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FinTech Is Flourishing South Of The Border

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The capital city is Mexico City, which alone is home to almost 9 million. Nearly $120 million has been invested in approximately 300 startups based in Guadalajara since 2014. Mexico’s longstanding business culture resulted in the government investing $658 million to an estimated 620,000 entrepreneurs back in 2014.

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