Fintech Focus For September 2, 2020

Quote Of The Day: Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. - Mother Teresa

Fintech Movers: Two community leaders from Oakland, California, with backgrounds in real estate and impact investing launched a new investment platform Tuesday to provide capital and technical assistance to Black-owned businesses. - Crunchbase

• Republic lets you invest like the 2%.
• AmEx to offer SMBs flex payments.
• SGX completes digital bond issue.
• Saudi exchange taps Nasdaq tech.
• Alpha Bank intros compliance tech.
• BlockFi hires former Intermex Exec.
• AccessFintech extends JPM collab.
• Automic provides Australian IPOs.
• IBKR furthers sustainable investing.
• InComm, Current team on deposits.
• Bank of America refines mobile app.
• Credit Suisse latest SIX participant.
• Wells Fargo intros digital payments.
• Bloomberg, CFETS team on bonds.
• Making money off of Libra with ads.

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Watch For This: The FBI has warned Chicago-area law enforcement that nearly three-dozen street gangs "have formed a pact to 'shoot on-site any cop that has a weapon drawn on any subject in public’.” - ZeroHedge

• Uber ensures safety with selfie tech.
• Defining, building blockchain banks.
• The optimal time to get your flu shot.
• Soaring AC demand to threaten grid.
• Apple adds new contact-tracing tech.
• USDA changes course on free lunch.
• Japan ponders missile defense tech.
• New Yorkers fuel suburban demand.
• Buffett, ESG and when to buy or sell.

Market Moving Headline: Over the past year, Netflix has attempted to expand its appeal in part by making a title or two free to non-paying users in select markets. Now the American giant is extending this test to users across the globe — with a larger free catalog. - TechCrunch

• Uber ensures safety with selfie tech.
• Apple prepares 75M new 5G phones.
• Tesla will launch a $5B capital raise.
• JPM exited private banking in Brazil.
• Rogers expands 5G network to cities.
• Options hedging fires up in Nasdaq.
• The US will help airlines amid layoffs.
• Facebook could block Aussie news.
• US extended China tariff exclusions.
• Capital One eyes borrowing limits cut.
• Spotify CFO eyes path to profitability.
• Brainard: Economy will need stimulus.
• AMC opens more theaters this week.