Tag: Investing
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ESG stocks investing is recession proof: interview with Victor Basta
We live in a tumultuous world. You could even say that we live in a twilight world, for all the Tenet’s fans out there. After years of relative calm in the investment realm, across virtually all asset classes, things are changing. By calm we mean steady growth and small bumps on the road. Even the…
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The Current State of Crypto within the U.S. Hispanics Community
Guest post by Ola, which is enabling Hispanics to grow their wealth by investing, saving, and learning. 2021 was the year of crypto adoption globally with 41% of current crypto owners purchased crypto for the first time. But, does this trend hold across all population segments? While crypto has been affected by the recent market…
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Conducting Stock Performance Correlations with Machine Learning
Author: Wu Min is the Vice President of Product at Nebula Graph, an open-source distributed graph database. After earning his PhD at Zhejiang University, he worked at Alibaba Cloud and Ant Financial for years. He has also been active in academia. When evaluating companies and stocks, many investors might argue that the more data you…
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How tech-savvy fintech startups are transforming investment banking
By iTechArt, a one-stop source for custom software development. Between uncannily smart algorithms, out-of-the-box blockchain solutions, and a world caught by surprise on NFTs, it is easy to get lost. Let’s dive into how the investment banking segment is leveraging technology to innovate in the fintech industry. Enterprises can be notoriously bureaucratic whenever something —…
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The True Democratisation of Wealth Management
Have we reached the stage of true democratisation of finance? Or, better yet, of wealth management? In case you have missed it, the digital broker Robinhood just did a big IPO. Big as in it gave the company an initial market capitalisation of $32 billion. Everybody was expecting it, but that’s not pocket change. At…
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21st Century Wealth Management: Interview with Elisabeth Dana
There is a lot of activity in all parts of the financial services industry. Everything is changing. And it is changing very fast as more companies are coming to the market. At the same time, the industry is awash with VC investments. First, it was a huge wave of innovation in payments that is still…
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ESG and Fintech: a perfect match made in heaven?
It’s not just Greta. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria are increasingly important in the business world. ESG is therefore more and more important in fintech. If you want to be cynical, that’s because it is more and more important for these businesses’ customers. So you need to adapt to continue to sell your stuff.…
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Behavioural finance and Fintech: Interview with Julien Revelle
What is really great about fintech, is that it is here to solve problems. That is the ultimate premise. Take broken things in financial services, and turn them into something much better. But can investor risk assessment be fun? That seems like a tall order. I do not know if you have ever done a…
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Top 5 books about Finance
If you want to learn more about finance in order to better understand fintech, there are a few books that are must-reads. Even though fintech is actually a lot ‘tech’, you cannot really forget that it is finance after all. Without it, there is no fintech. Therefore, understanding basic financial concepts is quite key, especially…
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Fintech funding reaches new records
It seems that when it comes to funding for fintech startups, sky is the limit… Investors splash the cash on British startups as per City A.M. As quoted in this article, according to data released by consultancy KPMG, fintech funding is reaching new records. Fintech companies in the UK have attracted $48.5bn (£37.4bn) of investment…