Fintech Focus For September 28, 2020

Quote Of The Day: If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. - Leo Tolstoy

Fintech Movers: Both fintech and big tech credit seems to complement other forms of credit, rather than substitute for them,­ and may increase overall access to credit. - BIS

• Russia’s Sberbank shifted its strategy.
• Ant launches blockchain trade platform.
• Gemini expands into UK with approval.
• Zillow to open a real estate brokerage.
• OneConnect won digital banking award.
• Attunely secured $9M for tech initiative.
• Science, technology drives UK strategy.
• OneBanks has partnered with Nuapay.
• Big names partner with LATAM fintechs.
• Plaid, Coinbase work on DeFi startups.
• Pico connects to a low-latency network.

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Watch For This: President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign released a “Platinum Plan” that outlines promises he is making to black Americans over the next 4 years, if he remains the U.S. president. The plan seeks to uplift black communities through, in part, an investment of about $500 billion. - Epoch Times

• Ray Dalio on the crisis with capitalism.
• LinkedIn has launched Stories feature.
• China simulates an attack on US base.
• Armenia intros martial law after clash.
• CIA has a plan to poach tech workers.
• Early pitch decks of unicorn companies.
• Google to help employees pay off debt.

Market Moving Headline: Overall, large cap stocks that split outperform the market by an average of 5% over the next 12 months. Just announcing a split causes the average stocks to outperform the market by 2.5%, indicating the market expected gains even before tradability improves. - Traders Magazine

• Ford to turn 75% reservations to sales.
• Microsoft releasing perpetual software.
• Innovation in batteries, electric storage.
• Chile launches $2B plan to return jobs.
• Pelosi expresses hope for a relief deal.
• China’s rebound slowed in September.
• Britain imposed curbs against COVID.
• Airlines call for pre-flight COVID testing.
• China imports of LNG could grow 10%.
• Positive virus tests top 25% in Midwest.