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"Be Your Own Champion"- Women in FinTech - The Fintech Journal
“Women bring an aspect of diversity to a team. Many studies have shown that a diverse workplace might ultimately create better results. This is crucial for startups.
We believe there are no purely female and male attributes. The best thing one can do, no matter the gender, is to be your own champion. Don’t be afraid to challenge yourself, and to respectfully evangelise about your own talents and aspirations to the right people. If you don’t, who is going to do it for you?“
Detailed Guide to Mobile Payments: Digital Wallets
According to BI Intelligence, the consumer payments industry will process about $2.7 trillion of card-based payments in the US in 2015. This explains why there is a massive amount of mobile-centric innovation occurring in the payments space and why competition for the consumer's wallet is so intense.
Lesson from a FinTech Mentor
Over the last 15 years I have worked at a number of leading organisations creating, developing, deploying and managing global trading platforms. I thought that as this is my first blog post in my capacity as a mentor for SBC Fintech, it would be useful to share some insights in a series of two posts (just to keep things digestible).
Fidelity Tech Fund Trounces All Rivals without Holding Apple
The best performing technology fund since the peak of the dot com boom did it all without owning Apple Inc (AAPL.O), whose soaring stock price has pushed the Nasdaq near a new record high.
The $941 million Fidelity Select IT Services fund (FBSOX.O) has returned an average of 10.9 percent a year since March 10, 2000, when the Nasdaq Composite hit its record high, according to Lipper data. That's more than double any other technology fund tracked by Lipper, and trounces the 0.1 percent a year generated over the same period by the PowerShares QQQ ETF (QQQ.O), the most popular exchange traded fund tracking the Nasdaq.
Fintech Global Tour Goes to Italy to Discover an Entrepreneurial Renaissance
Did you know that there are 78 Fintech startups in Italy? Thanks to Riccardo Luna, editor at StartupItalia! and CheBanca! you can see all 78 in the Fintech Atlas of 2015 (as long as you can read Italian).
So, I sought a tour guide who was happy to speak to me in English. Luckily I found Fabrizio Villani of FintechItalia. Fabrizio is an Italian Fintech entrepreneur currently living in Barcelona and familiar with the London and Amsterdam Fintech scenes (so he can contrast what he sees in Italy with the Fintech scene in other cities).
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Robinhood No-Fee Brokerage App Is Now Open
It's sleek. It's easy to use. It's designed to give first time, small-scale investors a leg up on Wall Street hotshots. And after months of waiting, it's now open to anyone who wants to join.
PayPal to pay $60m for Israeli security startup CyActive
In what will be its second acquisition in Israel, PayPal is set to acquire Israeli cybersecurity firm CyActive.
CyActive says its technology can predict what malware hackers are going to come up with next - allowing developers to come up with ways of mitigating the attacks, before the malware agent behind that attack is even created.
Neither PayPal nor CyActive would comment on the acquisition, but a source close to the deal said it was worth at least $60m.
Barclays and Techstars Gear Up for Fintech Accelerator
Is there amped-up demand among New York’s bankers to jump into startup land? Jenny Fielding, a managing director at startup accelerator Techstars, thinks so.
Ms. Fielding told Venture Capital Dispatch she is gearing up to run Barclays BARC.LN -1.77% Accelerator, a program created by Barclays PLC and Techstars, that will open its doors to financial technology startups for the first time in New York over the summer. A similar program ran in London last year.
Bridgewater Artificial Intelligence Development
In February, Bloomberg reported that Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund with $160 billion in assets, was building a new artificial intelligence team under senior technologist Dave Ferucci. It was to launch this month.
The report seemed to offer even a small glimpse into Bridgewater's mysterious investment approach and where it was heading.