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The $5.3 billion deal between Visa and Plaid collapsed due to a government antitrust lawsuit. The U.S. Justice Department called Visa a "monopolist in online debit transactions."

Walmart issued a late day press release on Monday, 1/11/21, in tandem with Ribbit Capital, that the two firms were announcing the creation - or should I say co-creation - of a new fintech start up. The new firm, which is yet unnamed (the fintech formerly known as symbol?), will be "designed to develop and offer modern, innovative and affordable financial solutions", according to the announcement.

London-based Computerweekly.com is reporting that fintech- and payment-sector related jobs bounced back significantly after a brief drop-off after the initial Covid 19 lockdowns.

Last week several news headlines read that Russell Okung, star offensive tackle of the National Football league's Carolina Panthers, would be the first player to be paid his salary in Bitcoin. Not totally true. Almost immediately another headline rang out that, no, he is not being paid in Bitcoin.

Friends, this is our third and final installment of our "mini-series" on digital wealth predictions for 2021 from the top fintech minds in the industry. We had so many responses this year that we broke this apart into 3 separate installments and this will be our final one.

Pretty sure EVERYONE has heard of bitcoin by now. Pretty sure there are far less "non-believers" (aka bitcoin bears) too. BUT, for any die hard long term "bitcoin going to zero" folks out there here is your sign. A cruise ship with a grand business plan was purchased and re-named but is now headed to the scrapyard. What was it re-named? The Satoshi.

We thought it would be interesting to see which stories have had the highest pageviews to date in our scant 3 month history. Interestingly, 3 of the 5 top posts fell under our "Fintech Luminaries" series, which spotlights C-level executives at leading financial technology firms.

Last week we launched a "mini-series" on digital wealth predictions for 2021 from the top fintech minds in...

Yesterday (12/28) around 1pm ET, the digital currencies app Voyager Digital went offline and has remained unavailable to customers for trades, etc. through Thursday morning.

Who needs Santa when you have someone like MacKenzie giving away billions (yes billions) of her Amazon fortune? $6 billion this year so far. And, she certainly learned how to distribute efficiently from all her firsthand experience making Amazon the behemoth it is today with ex-hubby Jeff Bezos.