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Recognizing the potential for an explosion in customer demand for bitcoin, Goldman Sachs is re-entering a sector they exited just a couple years or so ago by relaunching its cryptocurrency trading desk, thus allowing them to deal Bitcoin futures and non-deliverable forwards to clients.

Just last week the rock band Kings of Leon released their latest album in the form of a NFT, becoming the first band to ever do so.

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.

In what is surely a MOST uncanny coincidence, two major fintech SPAC deals were recently announced at $5 Billion dollar valuations First, what are the odds, and second, HOLY CANNOLI, that's a lot of money.

JP Morgan Chase has tested blockchain payments between orbiting satellites (yes, in space) to demonstrate how digital devices might use technology behind virtual currencies for transactions. In other words, telling your creditors you were abducted by Martians and couldn't pay your bills ain't gonna fly.

After a busy 2020, TAMPs are making a splash again in 2021.

Men still dominate the fintech landscape, according to Deloitte. Beyond that, Inclusive Fintech Benchmarks data found that women don’t even benefit on the other end — a service gender gap also exists

The development and maturation of fintech continues to accelerate, but it was a particularly eventful week in the universe of fintech-related ETFs and funds.

If Robinhood’s “Payment for Order Flow Revenue Model” is responsible for anything, it is for driving innovation and helping bring industry-wide brokerage commissions down to zero so that retail investors can trade commission free.

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.