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Can Startups Survive Without Venture Capital?

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Venture capital investment is the lifeblood of startups, but reports by The New York Times released on Wednesday (June 1) put a spotlight on a different breed of entrepreneurs that shy away from taking investor funds. According to the publication, some startups are beginning to see the value in not accepting venture capital.

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The Blockchain Companies Poised To Transform Capital Markets Infrastructure

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Capital markets infrastructure powers the trade of stocks, bonds, and other securities, handling $3000T+ in transactions each year. A number of official bodies representing major economies, including the EU and China, have launched pilot schemes to assess the use of DLT in capital markets. Category Breakdown.

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The Corporates Betting On Blockchain To Reshape Capital Markets Infrastructure

CB Insights

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) — which uses tech like blockchain to verify transactions without the need for a centralized authority — is gaining traction as a way to revamp capital markets infrastructure by making it more streamlined, improving transparency, and reducing associated fees. Company Name. Phone number. Category Breakdown.

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Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention

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Sure, there was a slight lingering concern that a glitch in how the world’s PCs were programmed might accidentally bring on the tech-pocalypse affectionately referred to as Y2K. Uncertainty breeds entrepreneurship, [and] the people who rise from that are the entrepreneurs and innovators who spot the pattern much more so than others.

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Monzo Sees 40 Percent Drop In Valuation In VC Deal

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Monzo’s precipitous drop in value was revealed when the virtual bank recently landed $75 million in new funding to weather the coronavirus crisis from a group of investors that reportedly includes Vanderbilt University and Swiss fund Reference Capital. However, this new injection of capital values Monzo at $1.5

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Nav Rolls Out Updated Embedded Financing Tool

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Embedded finance, the release noted, refers to the integration of financial service technologies with other provider solutions. The method will grow tenfold in the next five years, the release stated, citing a Lightyear Capital analysis, as businesses look for ways to access simple, transparent business solutions.

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XBRL Leading to Better, Cheaper, Pay-as-You-Consume Data & Metadata

Bank Innovation

In capital markets (public and private) there is an atmosphere pushing towards Transparency, Real-time access, Low cost & Higher Quality, and Pay-as-you-Consume pricing models; especially in the Data and Metadata space.

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