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Figure CEO: Figure Pay, National Bank Charter Will Boost Financial Inclusion

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While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments. Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion.

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Retail’s Voice-Assisted, Meatless Summer

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Urban Outfitters does have the benefit of a well-established brand behind it – but there is also the reality that the well-established brand has been having trouble attracting the “cool-kid” audience it relies on to signal-boost its products. Fulfillment Efforts. Moving from fashion to prescriptions – how’s that for a transition?

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The United States Of Startups: The Most Well-Funded Tech Startup In Every US State

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Using the CB Insights database, we identified the most-well funded VC-backed technology startups by state based on disclosed equity funding. Acumen Brands. Tilson Technology Management. Weather Decision Technologies. First Name. The Most Well-Funded Tech Startups By US State (2015 – 1/8/2018). AfterSchool.

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End-Of-Summer Edition: Retro Malware, Bitcoin’s Surge ‘N’ Split And Apple Watch Sees Other People

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EST in South Carolina, there will be a total solar eclipse — with Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia all enjoying prime viewing slots between start and finish. That same thing will, of course, be looking up. Today, between 12:05 p.m. EST/9:05 a.m. PST in Oregon and 2:48 p.m.

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