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Navigating The Overstuffed Weight Loss Market

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is largely credited for the global epidemic – even if we are no longer technically the “fattest” country on Earth (congratulations, Nauru ) – the problem has definitively spread inside our national borders. The firm recently raised $10 million in Series A funding to push its sustainable lifestyle-changing app into the wider global market.

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Palantir Reportedly Posted $580M Loss Last Year

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As it approaches its potential introduction to the public markets, Palantir is reportedly set to be the newest in a line of tech firms to go public long prior to bringing in positive income, The New York Times reported. The California firm provided its investors with financial information before the intended market introduction.

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Tel Aviv Fuels Israel’s ‘Startup Nation’ Reputation

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Though Israel’s small size and distance from other global markets do provide barriers to growth, Keidar noted that advancements across the “creative and fast-growing” FinTech industry are helping to fuel solutions in what can be described as one of the most highly regulated and conservative industries in the world.

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Chinese Finance Group Calls For AI Regulation In Ecosystem

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When it comes to securities, banking and other finance products which are employing technology such as a facial recognition or big data analytics, technologies to regulate that intelligent finance have lagged behind AI development, according to a report by the China Finance 40 Forum , a platform for finance policy research and academic exchange.

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Industry 4.0 Pulls South Africa’s SMB Banking Sector Into The Technology Mix

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These market conditions may not seem ripe for FinTech innovation, but where there are challenges, there are opportunities. Like many markets around the globe, a generational divide has created a rift between what younger entrepreneurs are seeking from their financial services providers and what the legacy banking sector has to offer.

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Cybersecurity Firm Cybereason Snags Another $200M From SoftBank

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Founded in 2012, Cybereason boasts distribution in all major global markets. Cybereason’s big data analytics approach to mitigating cyber risk has fueled explosive expansion at the leading edge of the EDR domain, disrupting the EPP market,” said Lior Div, CEO and co-founder of Cybereason, in the release.

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Alt-Lending Regulation Fears Won’t Stop Investors

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million in B2B venture capital was divided among alt-finance, supplier payments and Big Data services startups this past week. with the latest figures stating that the industry has lent $943 million in the nation to SMEs in just the first quarter of this year. Find out how the more than $26.5 Alternative Lending. MarketInvoice.

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