FinTech
Layoffs Watch ’22: Robinhood
Turns out democratizing finance and losing fistfuls of money doesn’t require quite as many people as it thought.
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Legal Weed Prices Are Sinking...Bruh
The diesel might be quite sour, but it's also very cheap.
Robinhood, Which Is Not A Video Game For Trading Real Money, Has A Cheat Code That Allows Users To Get Infinite Money
Press X, Y, Down, Down, Left, Y, X for what has to be securities fraud.
Area Company With $4 Billion In Debt And Annual Losses Of $3 Billion Would Like To Sell You A Credit Card
Nobody handles money like Uber, so Uber needs more money to handle.
Tesla Solar Is Burning And No One’s Doing Anything About It
Even Elon likes data, and this set ain't great.
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Fintech Startups On The Bleeding Edge Of More Bad Investment Ideas
Shares in a baseball card? With real money? Everything is fine!
Peer-To-Peer Loans Remind The Cleveland Fed Of An Obscure Historical Episode Known As 'The Subprime Mortgage Crisis'
Except this time there's no profits.
Renaud Laplanche Foregoes Subtlety In His Fintech Rebound Relationship
Why not call the company you've founded to get over the one that dumped you Upgrade?
Ousted LendingClub CEO Only Made It A Few Blocks Before Breaking Down, Launching New Online Loan Startup
It's hard to kick the P2P habit.
The Barbarians At Bloomberg's Gate Have Captured Norm Pearlstine
The slowest-moving revolution in media history just picked up some Norm-entum.
E*Trade Fined $900K For Handling Customer Data Like Actual Babies
It's awesome to create internal safety committees but FINRA kind of prefers that you, like, make them do stuff.
Fired Deutsche Bank Trader Reincarnated As Fintech Star
SoFi might want to have a talk with HR.
Fintech Darling LendingClub In Deep Sh!t For Prioritizing "Lending" Over "Club"
Angelo Mozilo is having schadenfreude for breakfast.
Jack Dorsey Has Two Jobs And One Hip-Hop Star Promising To Ruin His Life With Bad Magic
Well, this is definitely today's most entertaining Fintech story.
Fintech Startup Now Old Enough To Hire Schwab Executives
It's the hot new Normcore trend in Fintech.
Treasury Department Finally Gets To The "Deal With FinTech" Item On Its To-Do List
The Feds are like almost ready to be ready to regulate Fintech.
From Physics Grad Student To Financial Disruptor: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev
A Q&A with a Fintech bro.
Jack Dorsey Thinks That Brian Moynihan Is A Bit Simple
Jack is playing 3D chess, Brian is still trying to figure out checkers.
WSJ: Fintech Stocks Suck As Bad As Bank Stocks Right Now
Even Bri-Mo is looking at the FIntech bros and saying "Tough week, homies."
Citi Analyst: Google Won't Buy AIG, But It'd Be A Whole Lot Cooler If It Did
Just because an idea won't ever happen, that doesn't make it less awesome.
JPMorgan Wants Old Friend Blythe Masters To Teach It All About The Blockchain
Hey, she DID teach them everything they know about the credit default swap.
In Davos, Banking's Most Powerful Players Pretend To Understand What Fintech Means
Or "How Bank CEOs learned to stop worrying and pretend to love the bomb."