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Google Pay Co-founders’ Indian Neobank Has Raised $13.2M

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Sujith Narayanan and Sumit Gwalani, both co-founders of Google Pay India — formerly called Google Tez — said the seed funding brings the neo-bank startup epiFi to a valuation of roughly $50 million. When we were building Google Tez, we realized that a consumer’s financial journey extends beyond digital payments.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. And in 2017, those investments were off-the-charts nuts. Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S.,

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Why It’s Time To Come Down On Bitcoin

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More than $1 billion was invested in bitcoin ventures in 2015 alone and billions more in the blockchain technologies that underpin the ledgers that record bitcoin transactions. At the same time, experts urge businesses to invest in stronger security controls to protect against the growing threat of cybercrime — clearly sound advice.

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Filtering Down To The Most Impact-Weighted Work To Add Value

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So just most technology has been a little bit more either the pipes and infrastructure of how the financial system runs or something that lets people buy the products that they want to buy because they can just go online and buy it. But there’s this new emergence of advice- and advisor-oriented technology firms.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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It’s a storyline with some very strong parallels to the cryptocurrency stories being told and the investments that they now garner. These early advocates have stimulated a vast amount of investment into this vision; $1.7 billion has been invested into bitcoin/crypto-related ventures over the last eight years.