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COINBASE IS GOING PUBLIC. Yes, the largest (by trading volume) cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. will be offering shares of its stock to the public this week (4/14). But beyond the basic headline, this offering is EVEN BIGGER when you drill down.

We all know the expression "where there's smoke there's fire," right? Well if you follow events at Robinhood (the commission free stock trading platform) you might feel you are following an arsonist. Fires just seem to continually pop up all around them and the smoke keeps billowing up.

What's new? The second quarter is now officially under way..........it has begun with a big yawn. Spring break? Tax planning?............BITCOIN dancing around in a tight little range just under the all time high

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.

After SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, became one of the preferred ways to take innovative companies public last year, a flurry of “SPAC-tivity” has taken place in the fintech sector, headlined last week by the acquisition of New York-based MoneyLion, a comprehensive personal finance, advice and investing platform, by Fusion Acquisition Corp.

Here are three of the world's great retailers - selling affordable goods to the public the world over - and yet, retail sales alone is not enough for any of them. All three have now taken major moves into fintech and digital banking.

The most stunning display of misplaced culpability was witnessed on Wall Street last week. It began when a number of small investors, congregating in a Reddit chat group, started vigorously “crowdbuying” stock in public companies - most notably: GameStop ($GME) - which they believed were undervalued and possessed abnormally high and unjustifiable short interest ratios.

The mainstream emergence of Special Purpose Accquisition Companies (SPAC for short) has became one of the hottest market stories of 2020 and the trend appears to be continuing into the new year.

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.

By Eric Clarke It has been clear since March that our industry needs to change how we deliver...