Category: FinTech News
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Square's Cash App Reportedly Looking to Offer Stock Trading
Among many small business owners and patrons, Square is known for their point of sale interface and — before that — their card readers that allowed smartphones to become cash registers. While those are still cored products, the company has frequently expanded into other areas of FinTech. This includes their peer to peer payments app known as Cash. Now it looks like Square will expand the scope of Cash by...
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Dwolla Partners with Currencycloud to Enable International Payments
These days entrepreneurs are no longer limited to their own geographic regions. Instead the Internet makes it possible to sell to customers around the world. At the same time these transactions can be complicated due to differing currencies and payment platforms. That's why two FinTechs — Dwolla and Currencycloud — have announced a new partnership that will hopefully help change that. The cooperation between Dwolla and Currencycloud will make it...
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FinTech Giant Stripe Launches Stripe Capital
For years Stripe has been one of the largest names in FinTech. With a valuation of $22.5 billion, the payments company is more than a unicorn — it's a behemoth. However that doesn't mean it's done growing yet. This week the company announced it was expanding into small business lending with the launch of Stripe Capital. One of the biggest benefits Stripe is pushing with the lending options is speed....
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SoFi Invest Adds Support For Crypto Trading
To the surprise of just about no one, the cryptocurrency ride continues to be a bit wild in 2019. Just this week or so the price of Bitcoin managed to fall below the important $10,000 level only to rebound a few days later. Nevertheless the growing popularity of crypto has various companies looking to make Bitcoin and others easier for everyday people to purchase and sell. In that vein, today...
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Houston's Rice University Offering FinTech Boot Camp
With the FinTech industry continuing to expand, the sector seems poised to be a source of job growth for years to come. Just as coding has been billed as a future-ready skill, being versed in these financial technologies is also anticipated to be a benefit for workers. With that in mind, Rice University’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies in Houston, Texas is offering a FinTech Boot Camp to teach students...
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XYPN FinTech Competition Announces Six Finalists
Next month, XY Planning Network will host its fourth annual FinTech Competitionn in St. Louis, Missouri. This year's event drew more than 30 applications from startups looking to improve financial services provided to Gen X and Millennial clients. Now XYPN is announcing that six of these companies have been selected as finalists for the competition. The FinTechs that will go for the gold are Altruist, Anvil, College Aid Pro, Holistiplan,...
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