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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $330 Million Week Ending Jan 15

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Year-to-date fintech companies have raised $450 million in new equity, 67% more than the $270 million raised in the first half of January 2015. Millennial saving & investing app. HQ: Charleston, South Carolina. The post Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $330 Million Week Ending Jan 15 appeared first on Finovate.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Bankrate found 83% of millennials don’t think they’ll ever retire: they simply “don’t think they’ll have the money” to do so.). In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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In March 2020, Verizon was forced to suspend operations at its call centers in Elgin, South Carolina and Wilmington, North Carolina, after employees tested positive for Covid-19. Fintech innovations, including contactless payments, mobile financial services, and loan and insurance tech have all been climbing steadily for years.

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