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July 23, 2024 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ledger is pleased to announce the latest evolution in our partnership with Best Buy. Ledger customers now have the option “to buy a Ledger device online on Ledger.com and pick it up the same day in Best Buy stores across the US.” As a staple… Read More

July 17, 2024 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

‍Akur8, the insurance pricing solution powered by “transparent” machine learning, is pleased to announce its partnership with Millennial Specialty Insurance, LLC (MSI), which is said to be one of the largest non-carrier-affiliated managing general agencies in the United States. MSI has selected Akur8’s Risk and… Read More

July 14, 2024 @ 7:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has recently issued an amendment to its October 7, 2020, Cease and Desist Order against Citibank, N.A, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, related “to deficiencies in enterprise-wide risk management, compliance risk management, data governance, and internal controls… Read More

July 4, 2024 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On Friday, June 28, 2024, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia appeared to have struck a major blow to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler’s “regulation-by-enforcement” campaign being carried out against secondary crypto-asset… Read More

July 4, 2024 @ 9:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), confirmed via social media that Coinbase has responded to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) effort to block “reasonable discovery” from SEC Chairman Gary Gensler in a case that it—not Coinbase—chose to file. Democracy, as well… Read More

July 1, 2024 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To comfortably afford a typical U.S. home, a home buyer making the median income needs to put down nearly $127,750, or 35.4%, a Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG) analysis of the real estate market shows. Five years ago, when mortgage rates were “hovering just above… Read More

June 23, 2024 @ 4:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook has provided their 2024 US Venture Capital Outlook as part of a comprehensive  Midyear Update. Expectations for the turnaround in the VC market entering 2024 were not especially high, the research-focused firm noted in a recent update. PitchBook pointed out that the headwinds that… Read More

June 22, 2024 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

High-net-worth individuals believe U.S. stocks offer the best opportunities for growing assets, but that conviction is less held by younger investors finds the 2024 Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) Private Bank Study of Wealthy Americans. Millennials and Gen Z are increasingly looking “beyond the traditional… Read More

June 21, 2024 @ 12:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In May, Chime announced the news of its latest product innovation: MyPay. Consumers across the country are done waiting for payday, Chime notes while claiming that within 48 hours of sharing the news of MyPay and early access to the product “for eligible members, more… Read More

June 19, 2024 @ 10:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LendingClub (NYSE: LC) has reportedly surpassed $3 billion in loans sold via its structured certificates program. LendingClub Corporation, the parent company of LendingClub Bank, which claims to be one of America’s leading digital marketplace banks, recently announced that it has surpassed $3 billion in loans… Read More

June 19, 2024 @ 5:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brex, the all-in-one financial stack, launched new digital banking products and a number of updates to its flagship business account, giving founders access to capital where and when they need it. This launch makes Brex the “only” spend management platform “to marry corporate cards, expense… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United States Department of Justice is reportedly seeking a 36-month prison sentence for Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao, or “CZ.” US prosecutors are said to be seeking a potential 3-year prison sentence for Changpeng Zhao, who is the founder Binance, the world’s… Read More

April 10, 2024 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Santander (NYSE: SAN) is announcing the launch of a new national, digital offering in the United States under the Openbank brand in the second half of 2024. Openbank will also be launched in Mexico in the same timeframe. Openbank operates with “a technological platform designed… Read More

February 21, 2024 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, a technology-enabled real estate marketplace that helps people buy, co-own, and sell a vacation home, reports more than 21% growth in co-ownership across the U.S. year-over-year in its inaugural Co-Ownership Growth Report. The report identifies the top ten counties “with the most significant annual… Read More

February 16, 2024 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

More employees than ever — nearly 9 out of 10 — are feeling stressed about their finances, with almost half saying they’re just getting by. Despite budgets for salary increases reaching a 22-year high in 2023, 48% of workers are worried they “don’t have enough… Read More

February 12, 2024 @ 6:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Though the venture market was in a state of declines over the past couple of years, much of the pricing pressure has not yet forced pre-seed or seed-stage valuations below the highs of 2021, according to an update from Pitchbook. While it’s true this area… Read More

February 10, 2024 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Findings from the newly released Q4 2023 Quarterly Credit Industry Insights Report (CIIR) from TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) reveal that credit card debt is “at a historical high, driven in part by Millennials further building on their credit portfolios.” This comes at a time when an anticipated reduction in interest… Read More

February 2, 2024 @ 2:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Small business owners are optimistic about the future, with 88% indicating the financial state of their individual businesses is about the same or better off than a year ago, which should bode well for merchant services providers. According to the J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Merchant… Read More

February 2, 2024 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA) , a key industry participant focused on supporting and securing the Bitcoin ecosystem, has entered into an agreement with affiliates of Hut8 Mining Corp. in order to remove Hut8 as the operator of two Bitcoin mining sites recently acquired by… Read More

January 31, 2024 @ 6:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a global provider of technology and data, today announced that Raymond James Bank (NYSE:RJF) will use the company’s Encompass® end-to-end digital lending platform “to support mortgage origination for high net-worth borrowers across both retail and delegated correspondent lending channels.” Raymond James… Read More