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Badi Rolls Out AI Room Booking App In NY

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The company has notched $45 million in funding. They can select which people they would want to stay with by tagging profiles, much like a dating website. Half of the traveler’s payment is refunded to them when a mutual match occurs. Badi had a pilot in November in New York and is now looking to grow in the United States.

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Amid CVC/Blackstone Paysafe Bid, Paysafe Makes Its Own Acquisitive Moves

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The price tags attached to the deals were reported as $3.7 The Blackstone/CVC consortium of funds first approached Paysafe in early May, according to published reports and a company statement. The company also said its largest shareholder, Old Mutual Global Investors at 10.3 billion and $470 million, respectively.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

But once the rules started changing, it became difficult around things like seeding new funds. Within a year, you couldn’t be more than 10% of the fund. RITHOLTZ: So were you — in the early days, it was mutual funds it was SMAs, what were you guys doing? RITHOLTZ: Sure. JOHNSON: For sure. JOHNSON: Exactly.

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Data Dive, Farewells Edition: Apple, Chase, SoFi, Uber

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billion tagged for this year and significant focus on Chase mobile and digital efforts. Under Noto’s charge, SoFi has been investing in different areas such as high-yield checking and no-fee, exchange-traded funds, but those areas will take time to generate profit. In May, the company raised $500 million in venture funding.

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Promising Partnerships Edition: PayPal, The Card Networks And Walmart

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PayPal announced new collaborations with both Citi and FIS, while Mastercard and Visa shared a mutual commitment to accelerate digital wallet adoption. Mastercard And Visa Tag Team Tokens. At the same time, Walmart is using its partnership with Green Dot to find a new way to reward consumers that save rather than spend.

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Transcript: Michael Lewis on SBF & FTX

Barry Ritholtz

Can I just tag along? It’s the sort of hedge fund trading operation that Sam Bankman freed is operating under. 00:46:36 [Speaker Changed] I I very vividly a mutual friend said, Hey, you should give Michael a call. No controls co-mingling of funds. What could go wrong? And he did the deal. He was that fascinating.

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

Barry Ritholtz

I mean, at first, I got out of undergrad, and a degree in finance coming out of a small college at the time, Quinnipiac College, the gigs I was offered were essentially customer service jobs at mutual funds, call service, manning the phones, which I was no stranger to. You sold your house to fund this. HAMBURGER: Absolutely.