Markets

Haven't heard of (or cared about) a stablecoin until recently? Or maybe the name sounds familiar but never...

So just what is a "Tonga Year?" Well it's the start of a year that just seems to have caught everyone by surprise and disrupted (or, let's be real, blew up) some huge hopes and dreams.

Public is a stock trading firm that aims to be the "anti-Robinhood" of public markets, has a more social focus and does not sell its investor's order flow.

Email and other traditional forms of digital communication take a back seat to new messaging apps, with increasingly well-known platforms like WhatsApp leading the pack.

This Bitcoin vs Gold debate seems like an age-old argument but in reality it’s only a few years old. Of course, gold has been around 5,000 years and bitcoin only a little over 12 years so it’s not a really fair (certainly not to gold) comparison.

Each week, we publish the Top 5 Fintech VC Deals of the Week for our readers, but for our year end piece, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at some trends that happened in 2020 instead.

Fintech has a metaphorical chocolate and peanut butter. The chocolate would be decentralized finance, fintech applications that put the power of banking, lending and investing directly into the user’s hands, with less reliance on financial intermediaries, or no reliance on them at all.

Property tech “is a good number of years behind the maturity of other spaces. Fintech, for example, has already dramatically re-shaped the world of wealth management, with many traditional wealth management businesses forced to adopt new technologies or fail.”

Markets hate uncertainty, right? NO! What could possibly go wrong??! While sorting through all...

The Universal Stock Ticker Tape machine invented by telegraph pioneer Thomas Edison was used on the NYSE and The Philadelphia Stock Exchange beginning in 1870 until Nasdaq “creatively destroyed” the ticker tape after a century in use to form the first ‘electronic’ exchange in 1970.