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Jamie Dimon Can't Be That Dumb
Number of the Week: 76.4% (explanation below) Jamie Dimon Can’t Be That DumbIt’s long been said that politics makes strange bedfellows, but it doesn’t get much stranger than this. If you had been told...
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A Farewell to Mint
Number of the Week: $265 billion (explanation below) A Farewell to Mint FIN readers probably know that, at the end of this year, Intuit plans to shut down Mint, arguably the first major fintech...
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2023 Was Good to Bitcoin. Will 2024 Be Better?
Number of the Week: 47% (explanation below) 2023 Was Good to Bitcoin. Will 2024 Be Better?For Bitcoin, 2023 has been one of the most bullish years in the cryptocurrency’s existence. Here is the value...
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Farewell to a Frenzied Fintech Year
Farewell to a Frenzied Fintech YearSome years in business are more strikingly notable than others, often for the hard times that companies contribute to, or the serious conditions they must work...
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The Student Loan Debacle Is a Fintech Problem
Number of the Week: 22% (explanation below) The Student Loan Debacle Is a Fintech ProblemIt was entirely predictable that the U.S. return to student loan repayments would turn out to be a giant botch....
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Bill Ackman's DEI Rants Spotlight a Need for Gender Parity in VC Portfolios
Number of the Week: -48% (explanation below) Bill Ackman's DEI Rants Spotlight a Need for Gender Parity in VC PortfoliosAnother day, another epically long, obsessive X post (or five) from activist...
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The Bitcoin ETF Launch Changes Little
Number of the Week: 73% (explanation below) The Bitcoin ETF Launch Changes Little So spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) began trading in the U.S. on January 11, and the world seems very much the...
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Brex Breaks
Number of the Week: $2.25 trillion (explanation below) Brex BreaksIf fintech ever wanted a poster child for a dramatic rise and fall, it need look no further than Brex, a startup founded in 2017,...
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US Stablecoin Regulation Feels Like Groundhog Day
Number of the Week: 54% (explanation below) US Stablecoin Regulation Feels Like Groundhog DayIf you never paid attention to what goes on in Washington, you might well be surprised—if not appalled—that...
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Noncompete Clauses Foolishly Hinder Fintech Innovation. Let's Ban Them.
Number of the Week: 10 (explanation below) Noncompete Clauses Foolishly Hinder Fintech Innovation. Let’s Ban Them.When Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, was abruptly fired by the board of the...
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Bitcoin's Gotta Halve It
Number of the Week: 30% (explanation below) Bitcoin’s Gotta Halve It One of the great financial intellectual questions of recent years has been: What is the relationship between cryptocurrency and the...
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Big Changes Are Coming to FIN!
Number of the Week: $100 million (explanation below) Big Changes Are Coming to FIN!When I launched FIN in October 2020, I didn’t have a firm idea of where it would end up. (At that time—the height of...
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Dub Bets on the Social Appeal of Copy-Trading
Number of the Week: $1 billion (explanation below) Dub Bets on the Social Appeal of Copy-TradingAs the sweeping influence of social media pervades all aspects of society, dramatically reshaping...
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Yes, Crypto. The Smart Money Is on Farmland.
Number of the Week: $430 million (explanation below) Yes, Crypto. The Smart Money Is on Farmland.While 580 million cryptocurrency holders worldwide obsess over bitcoin’s surging price—with per unit...
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BNPL Competition Is Fierce. For Now, Satisfaction Is Highest for Credit Card...
Number of the Week: $24 million (explanation below) BNPL Competition Is Fierce. For Now, Satisfaction Is Highest for Credit Card Issuers: A Q&A with J.D. Power’s Miles TulloOne in five U.S....
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Coinbase and the SEC: In Goliath Versus Gensler, Don’t Bet Against the Big Guy
Number of the Week: $60 million (explanation below) Coinbase and the SEC: In Goliath Versus Gensler, Don’t Bet Against the Big GuyWhen you cover the business of money long enough, you realize that some...
View ArticleCrypto's Going Nowhere Good: Bloomberg News Investigative Reporter Zeke Faux
In the debut of FIN's Fast Forward Podcast, host Holly Sraeel and guest Zeke Faux, Bloomberg News investigative reporter and author of “Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall,”—an...
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Going Nowhere Good: Bloomberg's Zeke Faux On Crypto Titans, Crooks,...
Number of the Week: $3.72 million (explanation below) Going Nowhere Good: Bloomberg's Zeke Faux On Crypto Titans, Crooks, Evangelists and Hangers-On In the debut of FIN’s Fast Forward Podcast, host...
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Can Tally's Pivot to B2B Jumpstart Its Credit Card Payoff App Business?
Number of the Week: $785 million (explanation below) Can Tally's Pivot to B2B Jumpstart Its Credit Card Payoff App Business? That credit card debt payoff app Tally has decided to pivot from a...
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Parametric Insurtechs Could Be the Future. They Can Thank Insurers and Fossil...
Number of the Week: $700 million (explanation below)Parametric Insurtechs Could Be the Future. They Can Thank Insurers and Fossil Fuel Companies.As the severity of the global climate crisis worsens,...
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