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Quote To Start The Day: “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Source: C.E.M. Joad One Big Thing In Fintech: CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that it will not reopen its physical trading pits that were closed last...

Quote To Start The Day: “I think smart money understands that, although volatility has contracted a lot in these last two months, we are still seeing signs of excess market fragility appear from many different angles.” Source: Kris Sidial One Big Thing In Fintech: ConsenSys, a key...

Quote To Start The Day: International Business Machines Corp. expects 80% of its employees to work in a hybrid model after the pandemic, a setup that offers flexibility but also poses challenges for community-building and upward mobility for staff in a virtual workspace. The majority of workers...

Quote To Start The Day: Brainpower doesn’t have a zip code. Source: Laura González-Estéfani One Big Thing In Fintech: A new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicates that asset management giant Fidelity is seeking to create a bitcoin exchange-traded fund...

Quote To Start The Day: Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. Source: Jim Carrey One Big Thing In Fintech: As soon as July, officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have been developing prototypes for a digital dollar...

Quote To Start The Day: “When someone tells me something can’t be done, I think there’s always a will and a way.” Source: Randall Kaplan One Big Thing In Fintech: One driving force behind innovation is disruption. That’s according to Allison Beer, the Chief Product...

Quote To Start The Day: The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Source: Lao Tzu One Big Thing In Fintech: Doug Cifu chief executive of Virtu Financial, the market maker, broker and technology provider, defended payment for order flow as retail investors receive price improvement and...

Quote To Start The Day: I think the volume of SPACs is going to certainly outweigh the number of IPOs, but the IPOs are going to be bigger deals. Source: Patrick Healey One Big Thing In Fintech: Titan, an asset manager for retail investors, announced Tuesday it raised a $12.5 million Series A...

Quote To Start The Day: Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Source: Robert Louis Stevenson One Big Thing In Fintech: Banking is one of the key drivers of economies worldwide. Core banking typically includes deposit and loan and credit processing...

Quote To Start The Day: “Gamification is controversial; in some ways, it’s a good thing because you’re lowering the barrier to entry, and making people more motivated to participate in something that’s perceived as a game.” “But, it can be dangerous. If you...

Quote To Start The Day: We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. Source: Helen Keller One Big Thing In Fintech: Seedrs and Crowdcube were created as forward-thinking Fintechs leveraging technology to match investors with private firms in a sector traditionally dominated by...

Quote To Start The Day: “This is not the market participants' problem, they paid to play. It’s the broker’s problem, from an operational standpoint, to make sure that these things are in check.” Source: Kris Sidial One Big Thing In Fintech: Year 2021 will be all about...

Quote To Start The Day: The value of the cold email is so underrated. Source: Michael Gruen One Big Thing In Fintech: When Robinhood, a startup that promises to make finance accessible for all, temporarily limited trading on GameStop, AMC, and other memestocks, many retail investors were pissed...