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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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Singapore’s Hong Leong Eyes SMBs In Virtual Banking Pursuit

PYMNTS

The company is currently in talks with FinTechs about a joint application for one of the licenses, said President Ang Tang Chor, adding that Hong Leong would like to attract more millennials and newly established firms to its customer base. The FinTechs have one advantage: they lend against data,” Ang said.

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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. The volume is the highest seen since 2014. Capital is flowing and investors’ pulses are quickening, it seems. Slow and steady wins no race when it comes to financial services.

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Fraud Decisioning Pulls Ahead In A Tight Race

PYMNTS

The world’s biggest social media platforms are cracking down like never before. Fraudsters like travel even more than seafood, and travel booking site TripAdvisor has had it. The cat-and-mouse game between law enforcement and code-abusing felons is entering a new year, and a new phase.

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web 3.0, the 2010s and an internet of markets

Chris Skinner

The internet of things is emerging, but it cannot exist until a bridge between the mobile social network and the internet of things has a strong underlying architecture for device-to-device commerce. I call that the internet of value, and is covered in depth in my last book, ValueWeb. … The post web 3.0,

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Bank of America Adds New Features to Mobile App, Announces a New Partnership

Bank Innovation

Other features include Bank by Appointment, a feature that lets users book appointments with specialists, managers and notaries […].

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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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