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Pilot Raises $60 Million To Help SMBs Modernize Finances

PYMNTS

The round, headed up by Sequoia Capital , doubled the company’s total funding to $120 million, the release stated. And, Pilot helps SMBs get tax credits they might have missed out on, according to the release, including a research and development payroll credit that can go up to $250,000.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. However, the model doesn’t currently allow companies to issue new shares, meaning that DPOs do not raise any capital for the company. STAYING PRIVATE.

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Innovation in the Asset Management industry

Tefkin

Companies such as Betterment (disclosure, Anthemis is an investor & I am a customer) make investing in a diversified portfolio of ETFs easy and provide additional services such as automated rebalancing and tax optimisation. On the other end of the scale (Alpha), access to alternative assets has become easier with the JOBS act.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

PYMNTS

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are.

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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

PYMNTS

Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Taxes and other measures put in place years earlier were even rolled back. I was traveling at the time, so that shopping experience worked really well for me.