Finance
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Horrified by Trump supporters storming the US Capitol, VCs are calling on others to stop doing deals with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner
As the Capital came under siege on Wednesday, many VCs took to Twitter to express their outrage. Some went even further and...
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Tech salaries at payment giants: What engineers get paid at Amex, Mastercard, PayPal, Square, and Visa
Visa Visa Software engineer: $74,956 – $107,870 Senior software test engineer: $93,889 – $121,885 Senior software engineer: $96,852 – $136,792 Cybersecurity engineer:...
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A key exec in driving Wall Street’s adoption of electronic trading strategies has left UBS for Trumid, the Peter Thiel-backed startup looking to disrupt the bond market
Vlad Khandros, UBS’ global head of market structure and liquidity strategy, has left the bank’s equities trading department to join startup Trumid. ...
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Top VCs name the 46 climate-tech startups to watch in 2021
VCs are pouring money into climate-tech startups developing everything from batteries to machines that capture carbon emissions. We asked 15 top firms...
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Alipay is like a supercharged version of popular US apps like Venmo and PayPal rolled into one, and now President Trump is banning it. Here’s what you need to know about the app that is used by more than 1 billion Chinese residents.
Ant Group, the giant Chinese fintech company, was ready to embark on a historic IPO when China intervened and shockingly ground the...
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Traders are sharing memes and desperately searching for Jack Ma’s profile on Bloomberg’s terminal to try and work out where the Chinese billionaire is
Financial traders around the world are trying to get the scoop on Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma’s whereabouts, after media reports the tycoon...
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NYSE’s perplexing China listings U-turn — More ‘mega dream’ tech deals — Citi banker in legal spat
Happy hump day! It’s been quite a few days over at the Big Board (aka the New York Stock Exchange). On December...
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Citi just snagged a wunderkind from Credit Suisse to lead its equities research as it looks to climb the league tables
Lucy Baldwin has joined Citigroup as the firm’s new global head of independent research. The news, which was first reported by Financial...
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Goldman Sachs tech bankers tell us why they expect another year of ‘mega dream deals’ like Salesforce-Slack — and which companies could be hot M&A targets in 2021
Not even the coronavirus pandemic could cool down M&A activity in the red-hot tech, media, and telecoms sector in 2020. TMT merger...
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How one real-estate investor went from broke to owning a 295-unit portfolio in 5 years
Aaron Amuchastegui, a real-estate investor who navigated the 2008 crisis but took a serious financial hit in 2013, revived his portfolio in...