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Half Of Payments Executives Are Focused On Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Payments

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With the advent of emerging FinTech startups, banks face some competition for payments. As a result, banks are investing in and engaging with FinTech startups to grow their customer base and their market share. percent of financial institutions are focused on new products, according to the PYMNTS Bank Innovation Readiness Index.

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Instagram Talks New Shopping Features And Why It Doesn’t Have A Buy Button

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The new features from Instagram (described below) come at a time when mobile is becoming increasingly important to both consumers and retailers — providing opportunity for platforms such as Instagram that can put those two parties together, and do so in ways that more precisely match what consumers might be in the market for. Less Friction.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

Should you add more to marketing or in collections, right? And that seems to be where indexing really took off and where people became a lot more price sensitive. Yeah, they were pioneers in emerging markets and really kind of global equity. So one is filling product gaps, particularly in the case of private markets.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics. These things you need to access banking, financial services, market economy, investors.

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Tesla, Slack Show Lure Of Non-Public Funding Amid High Mkt Valuations

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As the world knows, Elon Musk sent a short missive – over Twitter, where all the missives are short – that he was considering a go-private deal, with an attendant price tag of about $72 billion, or at $420 a share, where the stock ended last Monday at around $356. Might the implication be that things are frothy among publicly-traded entities?

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Transcript: Robert Koenigsberger

Barry Ritholtz

His name is Robert Koenigsberger, and he has a fascinating career in emerging market, opportunistic and distressed debt investing. If you’re interested in what it’s like investing in emerging market debt, how that part of the investment firm has changed over the decades as the world itself has changed.

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Transcript: Stephen Suttmeier

Barry Ritholtz

You work at Capital Growth Financial and in former global markets before you join investing Giant Merrill Lynch in 2007, what was that transition like from smaller shops to a really, really big one? You go on the road, you see offices, they ask you questions about markets, stocks, things like that. That’s right.