Fintech Focus For August 13, 2020

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Daily Perspective: Accept my money, or die. - Kublai Khan

Fintech Movers: I wouldn't be surprised to see exchanges charging for [crypto] data ... like exchanges used to not charge for data in U.S. equities. - Ronan Ryan

  • Huntington selects BillGo as partner.
  • Cash App tests new borrowing tech.
  • TradingScreen, Imagine partner up.
  • SimCorp launches Dimension tech.
  • BlackRock, T.Rowe invest in Trumid.
  • Lending fintech SuperSim raised $5M.
  • Nacha adds Visa to Phixius program.
  • BondEvalue, Northern Trust eye DLT.

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Watch Out For This: A federal appeals court is letting investors keep roughly $1 billion they received from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. after its 2008 bankruptcy filing triggered the liquidation of dozens of collateralized debt obligations. - WSJ

  • Retail chains abandon Manhattan, NY.
  • Jamie Dimon: PPP saved 35M jobs.
  • Lessons from Buffett’s annual letters.
  • Startups over-prepared for pandemic.
  • COVID and the escape room industry.
  • Don’t use Chrome Store for extensions.

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Market Moving Headline: Analysts at the BlackRock Investment Institute announced they were raising their holdings of European equities to overweight, citing "the region’s robust public health infrastructure and a galvanized policy response." - Axios

  • The impacts of unemployment benefits.
  • Oil demand faces bigger virus shock.
  • Sony moves to develop EV concepts.
  • Gundlach predicts Trump will win 2020.
  • Ford recalls 488K vehicles over brakes.
  • Uber may shut down California service.
  • Triple-inverse ETN rises by $10,000.
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