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This week we saw YET ANOTHER British challenger bank receive funding this past week (gosh, there's a LOT of challenger banks out there now), plus an interesting new teen-based (you guessed it!) challenger bank out of SF. Also in this week's batch were an ATL-based payments app for e-commerce companies, an API platform for retail banking out of Chicago, and a credit card bill payment app out of India.

Everything changed in 2020—most businesses weren't prepared for the unexpected shift in the economy...

S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) and IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) today announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction which values IHS Markit at an enterprise value of $44 billion, including $4.8 billion of net debt.

Running a small business is not for the faint of heart. Myriad responsibilities, a surplus of critical decisions and ongoing effort to streamline your day-to-day activities can be dizzying...

We have a real "who done it" on our hands. Somebody took around $7 billion out of Vanguard's S&P 500 ETF.......symbol VOO.......in just one day last week. That amounted to roughly 4% of the fund's assets and looks like it was done in one large record setting trade. That's a really big deal.

Now - there are digital banks for teenagers (Step comes to mind and we just reported on them recently). There are platforms that enable you to gift your teen with fractional shares of stocks, like Stockpile and GiveAShare. All well and good - we love seeing platforms come out that help our young'ns become financially savvy and begin building portfolios.

THE TIFIN GROUP today announced that its portfolio company, 55ip, a financial technology company with proprietary capabilities empowering financial advisors to deliver tax-smart investment strategies at scale, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

AlphaTrAI is adding the founder of a prominent wealth management M&A firm and a leading tech venture capitalist to its advisory council, while also making a former president of LPL Financial the council’s chairman, the firm said today in a press release.

What to do now? Buy Bitcoin & Ethereum. BTC is about to go parabolic. Buy the BIG dip in gold. Longs got out at month end. 2021 looks like another good gold year. Keep (or initiate) a short S&P 500 exposure...

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