Robinhood has forever changed the way we invest. Before its GameStop saga with retail investors on Reddit, Robinhood was the free-trading app to democratize investing by giving everyone an equal opportunity to participate in the financial markets. The startup also made it affordable […]
Move over, N26. There’s a new challenger bank in town. Vivid Money is a new financial super app App launched two years ago to make it easy for customers to open a new bank account within a few minutes using their […]
Just last week, we wrote about FTX U.S., the American affiliate of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, after the company raised $400 million in its first external funding round from high-profile investors including Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp and Singapore’s Temasek Holdings. The Series A […]
Just three years ago, we wrote about Fireblocks after the crypto infrastructure startup emerged from stealth with $16 million in funding to securely transition digital assets to the blockchain. The blockchain startup has been through astonishingly rapid growth ever since. […]
Trading on the financial markets can be a great way to make a bit of extra money, but there are always dangers involved. Success is never guaranteed, and you should never risk more than you can afford to lose on […]
FTX U.S., the American affiliate of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, said on Wednesday it has raised $400 million in its first external funding round from high-profile investors including Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp and Singapore’s Temasek Holdings. The Series A funding round gives FTX […]
Decentralized exchange (or DEX) has been gaining a lot of momentum in recent years as investors attempt to bypass centralized traditional banks and trade directly with one another. Unlike the traditional financial institutions, Decentralised cryptocurrency exchanges allow the users to use […]
We covered Elrond back in May after the creators of the internet-scale blockchain partnered with Holoride to introduce blockchain and NFTs for the world’s first immersive in-vehicle media platform. Since then, Elrond has grown exponentially and its blockchain network now scales beyond […]
The Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) revolution is quickly gaining in popularity as consumers look for new alternatives to credit cards. Today, the BNPL market currently accounts for only a small portion of overall card spending. However, with the coronavirus pandemic-fueled […]
Last year, we published a piece titled “40% of US dollars in existence were printed in the last 12 months,” where we highlighted the staggering increase in currency circulation. The article quickly became one of our most widely read articles, […]
In the past 20 years, the average cost of college in the United States has tripled to $35,720 per student per year, with an annual growth rate of 6.8%. Even with all the scholarships available, the rising cost has put thousands […]
Wealth disparities are on the rise in the United States. Today, the top 20% of Americans owned 86% of the country’s wealth and the bottom 80% of the population owned 14%. Closing the racial wealth gap requires more than just taxing […]
London-based digital asset investing company CoinShares International has acquired French fintech Napoleon Crypto SAS and its social trading platform for $15.8 million (about 13.9 million euros), as the booming cryptocurrency market heats up. As part of the acquisition agreement, CoinShares said […]
The highly anticipated IPO of Indian fintech startup Paytm plunged by 28% on its first day of trading. Paytm’s shares sank as much as 28 percent in a weak stock market debut on Thursday, a week after the country’s biggest-ever initial […]
German digital bank N26 is pulling out of the United States and shutting down its U.S. operations to focus on its core European business. The announcement comes less than two-and-a-half years after it launched in the country. In a surprising […]
Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been hailed as a new way for users to lend, borrow and save while bypassing traditional gatekeepers of finance such as banks and government regulations. DeFi is built on the premise that the technology will potentially eliminate […]
CloudWalk, a fintech startup that is democratizing the payments industry in Brazil, has raised $150 million in funding led by Coatue, an investment firm focused on companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications space. The latest round brings the company valuation to $2.15 billion, making […]
Just a few weeks ago, Facebook announced it was changing its name to Meta to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, a new concept that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg described as the “embodied internet.” The announcement also marks the start of […]
Upgrade, a neobank that offers credit to mainstream consumers through cards and personal loans, announced Tuesday it has raised $280 million in a funding round is a Series F round valuing the fintech startup at a $6 billion pre-money valuation. The round […]
Late last month, we wrote about Twitter founder Jack Dorsey after he warned about how “hyperinflation is going to change everything.” But economists and the so-called financial experts were so quick to dismiss what he said. Some even went as […]
