With Bitcoin reaching stratospheric new highs seemingly every day, are we witnessing a technological reinvention of currency, or a crazy market fad? On Friday, March 5 at 1 pm EST, join Jalak Jobanputra, founder of Future/Perfect Ventures, and James Ledbetter, editor and publisher of FIN, for a timely discussion of blockchain, cryptocurrency and the future […] More
Upwards of 55% of the population worked remotely during the pandemic. With April 15th approaching, keep your financial planner on speed dial. More
Fintech should be able to replace racially-tainted methods of measuring risk with shiny, new algorithms that don’t discriminate. More
Finance Media & Marketing Opinion
In an era where millions are easily seduced by immediate gratification and self-flattery, and suspicious of any kind of earned expertise, Robinhood's "We Are All Investors" ad might be the most dangerously misleading commercial in Super Bowl history. More
A band of investment outsiders rallied behind some obscure stocks and caught some of the world’s largest hedge funds napping. With technology enabling coordinated investment and free stock trades, is this the new normal? Will Congress and the Biden Administration see the need to intervene? Watch the lively discussion with fintech, Wall Street, and Reddit experts James Ledbetter, Alexis Goldstein, and Christine Lagorio-Chafkin. More
Live by the day-trading mob, die by the day-trading mob. More
E-Commerce Finance Tech & Society
The GameStop saga is more than a David/Goliath saga of Redditors versus Wall Streeters. It’s the story of reality versus the both of them. More
Finance Tech & Society Techonomy Events
Techonomy hosted a session on “Reddit, Robinhood, and Wall Street,” which might seem unrelated to its regular coverage of how social media fanned the flames that led to the Capitol insurrection. But the imposition of a temporary circuit breaker to limit trading in GameStop by Robinhood stems from the same roots as Twitter and Facebook’s “In Case […] More
PayPal is arguably the greatest US-based fintech success story; it has completely upended how the world pays for everything, and at last glance its market capitalization was a little shy of $300 billion. As more vaccines are administered and the world slowly returns to in-person shopping where PayPal is less advantaged, will the company and its stock be able to sustain this breakneck growth? More
Reports that President Biden will appoint former CFTC chairman Gary Gensler to head the SEC might seem destined to send panic waves through the financial community, but reality is a little more nuanced. More
In a candid keynote address to the W2O Digital Health Summit last week, Mastercard Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Raja Rajamannar attacked the “horrors” of the U.S. healthcare system, which he labeled “unparalleled in the world.” More
The pandemic forced finance to pivot to contact-free customer acquisition and transactions. Breakneck growth followed for standalones like PayPal and many startups. COVID accelerated the entire sector. More
Technology continues to overhaul how money changes hands around the world, and in many ways the COVID pandemic accelerated that development in 2020. What can the fintech world expect in 2021? More
Cryptocurrency Finance Net Giants
Libra, or, um, Diem is a dim shadow of its original idea. More
Cryptocurrency Finance The Pandemic
Earlier this month PayPal announced that in the U.S. it would begin accepting Bitcoin. This marriage further legitimizes the crypto evolution. More
Cryptocurrency Finance The Pandemic
People often say the greatest tech innovations emerge from crises. Crypto may be the place to watch this time. More
The value of one bitcoin has more than doubled to $11,200 since its low in mid-March. That is just one of many signs the blockchain economy (aka “crypto”) continues to evolve and roil finance and tech. More
The Multicultural Innovation Lab coaches and supports tech-enabled companies with a female or multicultural founder. It's an important commitment from a major company towards equity. More
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