Social trading, low-cost active alpha and the democratization of Wall Street
Social Trading means something like Follow or Like or Connect borrowed from social media, but instead of indicating “I like ...
Tag: Capital & Funding
GunTab, a ‘PayPal for Firearms,’ Pulled from AngelList
AngelList, arguably the leading crowdsourcing sites for startups, has apparently removed the listing for a company that aims to be ...
Forex Startup KlickEx to Launch in India
KlickEx is headed to one of the world's largest markets. The currency exchange service KlickEx, which won SWIFT's Innotribe Startup ...
Bank Spending Trends Show Why There Is Little Room for Innovation
Are banks cutting or expanding their expense spending? This is an important question because, invariably, innovation spending comes from an ...
Cap One’s Warning: ‘Near-Term’ Digital Investment Is ‘a Negative Trade’
No one would accuse Capital One Financial Corp. of skimping on its innovation efforts and budget. Cap One was one ...
Why the Wharton FinTech Initiative Matters
Philadelphia was not on my radar screen until regular reader Steve Weiner reached out to tell me about Wharton FinTech, ...
OnDeck Launches Marketplace for Institutional Investors
Small business lender OnDeck (NYSE: ONDK) announced the launch of a platform for institutional investors today. Properly speaking, the platform soft-launched ...
PeerTransfer’s $22M Round Will Take It to UK, Australia and Beyond
PeerTransfer, a payments startup enabling international students to pay tuition fees in the currency of their choice, announced it has received some ...
It’s Buy, Not Build, That Drives Capital One Acquisition of Level Money
The old buy-versus-build debate has been settled. At Capital One. Capital One Financial Corp. said today that it had acquired ...
Funding Circle Plays the Anti-Bank [VIDEO]
At least a dozen times during its advertisement (see below) Funding Circle, which has apparently increased its UK TV advertising recently, emphasizes ...
