Fintech Focus For October 1, 2020

Quote Of The Day: Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fintech Movers: Insurtech has emerged as a major draw for VC investment, with the space attracting more than $6B in funding last year. - CB Insights

• Iownit intros a DLT for private markets.
• How fintechs are dealing with security.
• FindMarketPlays adds research tools.
• GoCardless powers Bridgestone tech.
• BNY Mellon preps fintech accelerator.
• PEAK6 is supporting women in fintech.
• Rapyd, Bnext team up on expansion.
• IBM, Refinitiv team on machine learning.
• GTCOM adds project with Bloomberg.
• JPM adds digital hub to prevent fraud.
• Retirable, Capitalize target retirement.
• Flinks launches data connectivity tools.
• BME adds TCA, execution technology.

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Watch For This: Manhattan office employees are returning to work at a much slower pace than those in most other major U.S. cities, raising the risk that New York faces a more protracted and painful recovery from the coronavirus pandemic than much of the rest of the country. - WSJ

• How an average investor really invests.
• Multi-strat hedge funds hiring like mad.
• Clinton had allegedly smeared Trump.
• Morgan Stanley seeks less office space.
• LATAM Mobility startups eye more EVs.
• VCs and PE lean more left than usual.
• Treasury will start forgiving PPP loans.

Market Moving Headline: FAA Chief Steve Dickson conducted a nearly two-hour evaluation flight at the controls of a Boeing 737 MAX on Wednesday, a milestone for the jet to win approval to resume flying after two fatal crashes. - Reuters

• Record flurry of IPOs will keep coming.
• Packing solar energy in Tesla batteries.
• Citigroup cuts jobs to revive business.
• IRS adding a cryptocurrency question.
• US private payrolls have accelerated.
• Citi fined for failing to fix audio system.
• China eyes investigations into Google.
• Walmart redesigned store experiences.
• Oil traders doubt an OPEC output raise.
• Shell cuts up to 9,000 jobs in overhaul.