Fintech Focus For July 20, 2020

Daily Perspective: Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. - John Wooden

Fintech Movers: Schwab now manages a record $4.11 trillion in client assets from 14.1 million accounts, having added 1.62 million new clients during the quarter, but still managed to see weak revenue and net income numbers. - Axios

• Neon to offer investment service.
• UBS invests in Houzy’s home tech.
• AxeTrading secures Series A fund.
• Goldman shifts to Marquee platform.
• Singapore DLT ready for adoption.
• Revolut rolls out a crypto service.
• SIX Group reveals Vestr investment.
• Clearbanc launches valuation service.
• Hummingbird finalizes $8.2M funding.
• Dutch Central Bank licenses Flow.

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Watch Out For This: Testing will soon begin in poverty-stricken parts of Africa for a biometric ID which will also be your payment system and vaccine record. - ZeroHedge

• Citadel has settled with the SEC.
• Banning middle seats on airlines.
• Berkeley to de-cop traffic stops.
• You can now buy a 3D printed bike.
• Florida could close down again.
• Family pretends to fly for 15 hours.
• Ferrari, McLaren to re-up in F1.

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Market Moving Headline: Up until the end of March, there was little divergence [but] since April, all of the S&P 500 up move appears to have happened during extended market hours. - JPM

• Stock market update for the week.
• Facebook intros TikTok competitor.
• Economic opportunity and car tech.
• Shadow lenders are growing fast.
• Google invests $4.5B in Reliance Jio.
• Uber buys Routematch software tech.
• Tesla lands truck factory tax break.
• Navistar, TuSimple to produce trucks.
• E*TRADE approves Morgan merger.