April 06, 2019
What ‘The Simpsons,’ Art And Millennials Have In Common
The art world can be a strange place. While this is a fact well-known to art collectors, even non-collectors got a taste of just how weird things can get earlier this year,...
April 05, 2019
Morgan Stanley To Oversee Early Trading For Uber IPO
Morgan Stanley will take on the role of stabilization agent for Uber when it goes public, according to a report by Bloomberg. A stabilization agent, also know as a syndicate...
April 05, 2019
Millennials Tap POS Financing Amid Lack Of Credit Options
For the younger generation, for cash flow, look beyond four walls. In the latest staff report from the New York Federal Reserve, titled “Trends in Household Debt and Credit,” it is...
April 05, 2019
Earnin Investigated For Offering Covert Payday Loans
Silicon Valley-based financial services startup Earnin has potentially run afoul of New York State regulators with its payday advance product for consumers. The New York Department of Financial Services took...
April 05, 2019
PayPal’s Blockchain First; Mastercard’s B2B FinTech Unicorn
This week’s B2B venture capital funding rounds were particularly focused on the enterprise cybersecurity space, though B2B payments caught the attention of investors, too, with another industry unicorn making its...
April 04, 2019
NY Fed Says US Household Debt Higher, But Not A...
A little over a decade ago, something nearly unprecedented happened in the American economy: household debt contracted instead of growing. After hitting a peak a little north of $12 trillion...
April 03, 2019
Boost Payment Solutions Raises $12M For Corporate Card Optimization
Boost Payment Solutions, a company that targets friction in the commercial card market to increase acceptance of cards in B2B transactions, has announced $12 million in new funding. The company...
April 03, 2019
Opendoor, Zillow Rival Perch Raises $220M
Home buying and selling platform Perch has announced that it has raised $220 million in new funding. The funding, which is a combination of equity to fund operations and debt...
April 02, 2019
IMF Director: The Global Economy Has Slowed
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said economic growth around the world has slowed down, which has left things in a precarious position, according to a report from...
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