Fintech Focus For October 22, 2020

Quote Of The Day: When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. - Paulo Coelho

Fintech Movers: Coinbase received 1,914 requests for information in the first six months of 2020 alone. Nearly 60% of those came from state and federal agencies in the U.S.—primarily from the FBI, Homeland Security, and the DEA. - Coinbase

• Neobanks up the game in US market.
• JPM rolling out fintech, QuickAccept.
• Virtu expands broker-neutral FX offer.
• Stripe leads a $10M round for Pulley.
• Fintech scene sees big surge in M&A.
• Bond Connect launches ePrime tech.
• Ant Group gets nod for its jumbo IPO.
• BoE, CFTC establish new framework.
• TORA integrated with MTS BondPro.
• PayPal to offer cryptocurrency option.
• Xformative adds modularity to finance.

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Ahead of the November 10, 2020 event, this newsletter highlights disruptive innovators working to create positive and diverse change in financial services.

Today's disruptive innovator is Xformative, a modern issuer processor payment platform.

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Watch For This: Take all the physical assets owned by all the companies in the S&P 500, all the cars and office buildings and factories and merchandise, then sell them all at cost in one giant sale, and they would generate a net sum that doesn’t even come out to 20% of the index’s $28 trillion value. Much of what’s left comes from things you can’t see or count: algorithms and brands and lists. - Bloomberg

• Obama hits campaign trail for Biden.
• US moving towards greater freedom.
• Seattle cops quit on socialist agenda.
• The irony of the Google antitrust suit.
• Vaccine trials to continue after death.
• US and Chinese economy divergent.

Market Moving Headline: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard on Wednesday repeated his view that U.S. businesses are largely adapting to life amid COVID-19 and the U.S. economy is on track to better-than-trend growth even without further fiscal stimulus. - Reuters

• Credit scores rose as economy tanked.
• COVID complicates BRI debt squeeze.
• Verizon profit beats estimates on WFH.
• Netflix plans test of free access in India.
• Quibi video app planning to shut down.
• Pelosi may wait on stimulus till election.
• Purdue pleads guilty on opioid practice.
• Tesla trades higher on a record quarter.
• Nikola rises as GM plans to back deal.