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By Jon D. Markman On December 14, 201804:10 PM Eastern
Banks all over the world are rushing to change the way customers interact with financial services.
Well, they want to make that happen. However, they’ve had a hard time finding expert partners...
By Jon D. Markman On October 3, 201803:25 PM Eastern
Something important is happening. The same forces that turned movies, music and shopping into bits of data are transforming financial services.
To the general public, Betterment LLC is largely...
By Jon D. Markman On September 24, 201802:27 PM Eastern
Banks and credit unions are in a fight for their lives. A financial technology revolution is underway. The old world order is dying.
In early September, Bloomberg reported Mastercard (MA) and...
By Sean Brodrick On September 22, 201811:55 AM Eastern
Cue the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse … because marijuana is now bigger than baseball.
Yep. Major League Baseball earned $10 billion in revenue last year. It should earn about the same this...
By Jon D. Markman On September 14, 201803:28 PM Eastern
It’s easy to beat up on Apple. Management seems smug. Its lack of real product innovation in its yearly releases can get depressing.
But every five years or so, the company does something really...
By Jon D. Markman On September 12, 201805:16 PM Eastern
China is likely to win the race to next-generation wireless technology, according to analysts. Good for them, but not so much for the United States. In fact, the negative consequences for the U.S....
By Tony Sagami On September 10, 201807:55 AM Eastern
The last time cryptocurrency prices pulled back, the naysayers proclaimed that “Bitcoin is dead.” Then last week, the same crowd started chanting about the “end of Ethereum.”
Those chants grew...
By Jon D. Markman On August 24, 201803:34 PM Eastern
Financial technology has reached an inflection point. We can already see a new set of winners emerging in the payment industry.
Costco (COST) is reportedly set to start rolling out contactless...
By Juan M. Villaverde On August 22, 201807:55 AM Eastern
In Turkey, Google searches for “Bitcoin” have doubled since the local currency crashed.With every new currency crisis, more people turn to crypto as a safe haven to protect their wealth.
If the...
By Mike Larson On August 17, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Egad. How did I get so old?
In one more month, I turn 62 years old. And if I were so inclined, I could start collecting a monthly Social Security check.
Of course, I am still productive and...