Fintech Focus For November 11, 2020

Quote Of The Day: Get busy living or get busy dying. - Stephen King

Fintech Movers: By adding fintech, SaaS businesses can increase revenue per customer by 2-5x* and open up new SaaS markets that previously may not have been accessible. - Andreessen Horowitz

• Benzinga’s Fintech Award winners.
• Sharesies democratizes investing.
• oneZero extended its data access.
• Interac, Walmart eye eCommerce.
• Santander’s Mouro eyes proptech.
• 2020 state of open banking report.
• PAAY, Bluefin look to more security.
• Advisor360 growing, expands team.
• Lightico raised $13M in new round.
• Grab leads $100M round in LinkAja.
• Paytm added Payout Links for B2B.
• Mastercard expanded City Possible.
• Louwman adds Mendix leasing app.
• Global Payments will join Citi event.
• Election’s impact on fintech market.
• UK to publish stablecoin regulation.

Watch For This: Singapore’s Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) has been rolling out iris and facial biometric scan technology at all its immigration checkpoints, ramping up its border point biometric identifiers and replacing the less-reliable fingerprint scans. - Tech Wire

• DOJ’s voter fraud investigator quits.
• Pros unpack the rise in retail trading.
• Soviet Ekranoplan rose from ocean.
• Italy needs to spend $11.8B/month.
• Treasury to issue new Green Bond.
• US states are resuming lockdowns.
• TikTok filed a challenge to US order.

Market Moving Headline: Renewed certainty about the U.S.’ political future and the prospect of getting a handle on the coronavirus pandemic in 2021 means we’ll likely see a robust lineup of venture-backed companies going public in the final two months of this year and into early next. - Crunchbase

• Economic forecasts are thrown out.
• Uber rolling out reserve feature set.
• US job openings and hiring sluggish.
• Adobe bought Workfront for $1.5B.
• American Airlines announces offer.
• Vaccine may weaken stimulus need.
• Enthusiast plans listing on Nasdaq.
• Boeing loses more 737 MAX orders.
• Strong demand absorbed issuance.
• Amazon tees $3B for data centers.

• Spotify buys Megaphone for $235M.
• Alibaba Singles’ Day is an indicator.
• McDonald’s intros a McPlant burger.
• AMC raising $70M on vaccine hope.