Fintech Focus For August 3, 2020

Daily Perspective: Stay hungry, stay foolish. - Steve Jobs

Fintech Movers: The ECB says EU financial institutions have an over-optimistic view of their IT resilience and resistance to cyber threats. - Finextra

• US fintech funding on pace to excel.
• Tradeweb calls on Nasdaq tech.
• Cuban-backed fintech Dave grows.
• Credit Suisse unveils restructuring.
• Coinbase struggles on flash crash.
• CVS to introduce PayPal, Venmo.
• S&P to spin out Qualtrics platform.
• Bitfinex launches a mobile service.
• LSE considers Milan exchange sale.
• Varo snags a national bank charter.

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Watch Out For This: If people washed their hands regularly, wore masks, and kept their social distance from each other, these three simple behaviors could stop most all of the Covid-19 pandemic, even without a vaccine or additional treatments. - CNN

• Four keys to building your startup.
• Stanford students short-circuit VCs.
• Assessing the remote-work boom.
• Ohio cuts Hydroxychloroquine ban.
• GM sculptor turns a car into a bed.
• Florida teens hack Twitter, go to jail.
• Yale argues jobless benefit theory.
• SpaceX Dragon successfully lands.

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Market Moving Headline: Four of the largest U.S. tech companies collectively added roughly $200 billion in total to their market values after hours on Thursday, as each released strong earnings reports that beat analysts’ expectations on most fronts. - CNBC

• Market update for the week ahead.
• Apple’s App Store gets a grilling.
• Panasonic, Tesla tech improves.
• Reasons to stay bullish America.
• AMC embraces new movie model.
• Industries, tech shaping new world.
• Neiman Marcus ending bankruptcy.
• Pinterest rockets on earnings beat.
• Fed's Kashkari suggests shutdown.