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Will Fintech Interest Swing Back to Active Investing? [PODCAST]

Bank Innovation

Two distinct streams have surfaced in fintech: passive and active investment. Betterment is the poster child for passive investment, recently booking $70 million in venture funding and has continued to enhance its services. But the active investment strategy for investors is far from dead in fintech.

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IPOs Sizzle Amid Stocks, While Ripple Gets Served

PYMNTS

IPOs: See a renaissance of sorts, topping $35 billion in 2018, amid the fastest pace in 20 years and among verticals as far-flung as wholesale clubs and FinTech firms. Capital is flowing and investors’ pulses are quickening, it seems. The volume is the highest seen since 2014. Chatbots, it turns out, can boost the bottom line.

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Sizzle/Fizzle: Brexit And The Waiting Game

PYMNTS

For financial services, and specifically for FinTech , the ripple effects may keep rippling. As reported, the vote was 412 to 202 on Thursday (March 14th) – 15 days before the March 29 departure date – to delay the withdrawal from the European Union that has been on the books for three years. and the EU over any number of months.

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Sizzle Fizzle: Brexit and the Waiting Game

PYMNTS

For financial services, and specifically for FinTech the ripple effects may keep rippling. As reported the vote was 412 to 202 yesterday (March 14th) to delay the withdrawal from the European Union that has been on the books for three years. The delay comes as there had been 15 days to go before the March 29th departure date.

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Kobe Bryant, Virtual Cards, Self-Service Technology Top This Week’s News

PYMNTS

Bryant formed the Bryant Stibel venture capital firm in 2013 with Jeff Stibel, founder of Web.com. Bank’s Adam Kruis, senior vice president and manager of working capital consulting, and Jennifer Swenson, vice president of corporate payment systems, discuss how the bank ensures smooth implementation of virtual card solutions.

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Is AP Style Out of Style?

William Mills

In a much needed update, AP style no longer capitalizes the words internet and web. The change, effective this summer, had already been made by most media. For instance, when referring to Uber, Lyft and other similar services, the new AP Style is not to say ride-sharing, but rather ride-hailing, or ride-booking services.

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Seven Big Threats Facing Seven Big Tech And Payments Players This Halloween

PYMNTS

The motivation for that move was to create more of a direct relationship with the sellers in order to provide them with more services, including working capital and lower processing fees – fees, they say, that can be as much as 25 percent lower in some cases. FinTechs … and the Banks They Wanted to Disrupt.

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