Category: Personal Finance
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Personal Finance
Square's Jack Dorsey Only Shows Interest in Bitcoin
by Fioney Staff
This week, Square CEO Jack Dorsey took to Twitter (the other company he serves as CEO of) to talk about cryptocurrency. More accurately, he took questions about Bitcoin, noting that it's the only crypto asset he owns. But that's not all — Dorsey went on to suggest that his Square Cash app will share his Bitcoin-only perspective and also teased a new feature for the app. In recent days Dorsey...
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Study Finds Best and Worst Credit Cities for 2019
by Fioney Staff
If you've been paying attention, you may have heard that the average credit score in America is on the rise. In fact, according to the Fair Isaacs Corporation — much more commonly known as FICO — the average now sits north of 700 points. However the personal finance site WalletHub recently sought to find which cities in the country had the best (and worst) credit scores, uncovering one stand-out where the median...
Personal Finance
Plaid Introduces Auth Product, Adding Thousands of Banks to API
by Fioney Staff
If you're a user of a personal finance app that relies on data provided from your banks, there's a very strong chance you've used Plaid's API to make that connection happen. Prior to today Plaid offered quick authentications for approximately 3,800 banks, allowing users to simply log into their accounts and provide various apps with the info they needed. Now the number of supported banks is set to increase three-fold...
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Job Report Exceeds Expectations, Reaches Historic Milestone
by Fioney Staff
It was just yesterday that economists and observers were offering their best guesses for what promised to be an interesting jobs report. Complicated by the longest partial government shutdown in history, expectations had pegged the number of payrolls being added at 165,000. In actuality the report released by the Labor Department shows that the economy added upwards of 300,000 — reaching a notable milestone in the process. As CNBC reports,...
Personal Finance
Now-Ended Partial Government Shutdown to Complicate Jobs Report
by Fioney Staff
On Friday, the Labor Department will release its monthly jobs report for the first month of the year. While the figures it will contain are expected to be solid, the partial government shutdown that was in place for much of January will lead to a very interesting report overall. For example CNN notes that the 800,000 federal workers affected by the shutdown — either being furloughed or forced to work...
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Report Suggests Two Groups Responsible for Majority of Crypto Hacks
by Fioney Staff
As the popularity and awareness of cryptocurrencies has increased in recent years, media coverage of hacks and other thefts has also been elevated. This might make it seems as though crypto hackers are common and widespread. However, according to a new report by Chainalysis, as covered by Fortune, the majority of these hacks can likely be attributed to two groups. What's more, both are apparently still active. Chainalysis suggests that 60%...
Personal Finance
Money at 30: Money at 33
by Kyle Burbank
This past week I took another step toward aging out of my "Money at 30" moniker. That's right, I'm now 33 years old. I'd call this a "milestone," except I don't really know of anyone who finds 33 to be a particularly notable or interesting age. Nevertheless, as I've done in year's past, I figured it was only right to kick off my 34th year by discussing some of the...