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Weekly Briefing No. 66 | Care to Tango with an Algo?

8 Sep 2020 6 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.45

This Sunday, tickets to the oddly named Super Bowl LI have reached a high of $22,000 on StubHub. If your budgetary philosophy won’t countenance that kind of outlay, please rest assured that The FR is still free — so there’s that. Here’s what’s on our...

Oh Boy 😱 ! These are crazy markets ! Crypto and NASDAQ sell-offs & COVID19 is back in Europe !

3 Sep 2020 1 minute read 4 comments Crypto_Lemon $6.80

Hello HODLers, Well this is quite a hard day for all of us investors; we were used to markets only "going up" as Dave Portnoy used to say... Well, today is a clear Cryptocurrency sell-off after a bunch of Pump and Dump / Ponzi scams (Hotdog, Spaghett...

Weekly Briefing No. 53 | Financial Disruptors Have Already Won the Election

24 Aug 2020 6 minute read 1 comment FinRev $0.14

Ah, November. What could be better than the Cubs, Guy Fawkes Night, Thanksgiving and the conclusion of an interminable election season? This week we look at what November 8th means for financial services disruption, as well as noting developmen...

Safe Heaven (SHA) - from inheritance and payment solutions to corporate payments

23 Aug 2020 3 minute read 14 comments PVM $9.95

Safe Haven (SHA) is a VeChain (VET) based decentralized B2B2C platform for digital asset management and financial technology solutions. The project started in 2017 as a crypto inheritance platform, based on the Ethereum block-chain, however, moved to...

Market fragility and American debt

19 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Simplify Crypto $0.89

FED keeps interest rates unchanged and the reaction after ePowell's speech shows fragility of the markets and dependence on stimuli to keep rising. As expected, the Federal Reserve kept the interest rate unchanged, between 0% and 0.25%, reporting tha...

Top Things You Should Know About UMA (UMA)

17 Aug 2020 7 minute read 3 comments MuyAsk $13.36

Hey guys :) I’m back with another comprehensive Q&A piece, this time for the decentralized financial contracts platform – UMA (UMA). UMA – short for Universal Market Access – is a decentralized protocol and financial contracts platform that enables g...

Weekly Briefing No. 36 | The Yield Curve is Set to Light a Fire in Digital Banking

5 Aug 2020 6 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.03

The direction of the yield curve is set to light a fuse for digital banking. This week, we look into why, as well as blockchain lobbying in Washington, the annual Allen & Co. conference, Fred Wilson’s take on corporate VCs, the next phase for Quantop...

IPC Soft Turrets Powering Remote Capital Markets Trading

2 Aug 2020 3 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.01

Bob Santella is CEO of IPC, a technology and service company powering the global financial markets.  Well known for its trading turrets — specialized communication tools with specific capabilities to meet the demanding needs of financial traders...

The Financial Crisis - 12 years on

2 Aug 2020 7 minute read 7 comments rah $2.37

Before starting it is important to make clear that I am not an economist nor am I a financial analyst.  However, I do hold some accounting qualifications and according to experts in the field I have more than a layman’s understanding of the subject. ...

Lending Technology Gains Prominence Amidst COVID-19 Response

29 Jul 2020 4 minute read 0 comments FinRev $0.05

Over the past two years, six million small businesses in the U.S. borrowed more than $1.9 trillion. And before the pandemic, they expected to borrow nearly $2.6 trillion over the next two years. With the first round of Paycheck Protection Program...