Finance
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Wall Street is divided over bringing interns into the office or going virtual for a second summer. Here are the latest plans at Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Citadel, and others.
Firms across Wall Street are grappling with whether to host a second year of virtual internships. Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley...
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Private-equity firm Innovatus Capital just snapped up 3 ad agencies and said it wants to take on the big ad holding companies
Private-equity firm Innovatus Capital acquired three midsize ad agencies in the past three months. It joins other PE firms that have poured...
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PayPal, Square, Visa, and Mastercard are all thinking through use cases around bitcoin and other digital currencies. Meet the execs leading those efforts.
Raj Dhamodharan, EVP of blockchain and digital asset products at Mastercard Mastercard Dhamodharan leads all of Mastercard’s projects related to cryptocurrencies and...
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Venmo, PayPal & other services disrupting payment processing in 2021
The fintech industry is moving every year. Throughout 2019, fintech startups globally scooped up $34.5 billion in funding. But as more and...
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497Venture capitalist Chris Sacca highlights the key risks of betting on startups — and offers 3 tips for amateur investors
Chris Sacca. YouTube/Kevin Rose Chris Sacca highlighted the risks to amateur investors of backing startups. The billionaire venture capitalist pointed out that...
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BlueVine hires its first COO, a LendingClub and PayPal alum, as the fintech doubles down on its business-banking ambitions
Fintech SMB lender BlueVine just hired its first COO. Steve Allocca joins with decades of experience at LendingClub, PayPal, and Wells Fargo....
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Ripple, whose XRP token was deemed illegal by the SEC, claims the agency is hiding internal records that would explain its views on crypto assets
The SEC says Ripple’s XRP is an unregistered security, and exchanges like Coinbase won’t let users trade it. But Ripple says XRP...
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A former Goldman Sachs trading exec is the mystery buyer of Jeffrey Epstein’s $51 million NYC mansion after raking in big bitcoin gains
Goldman Sachs veteran Michael Daffey is buying Jeffrey Epstein’s NYC home, Insider has learned. He funded the roughly $51 million purchase with...
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PayPal took big steps to increase wages and cut healthcare costs for employees. Now the payments giant is working with Just Capital to formalize a plan for other companies to follow.
PayPal increased wages and cut healthcare costs after auditing employees’ financial situations. Now, PayPal is partnering with Just Capital, calling on other...
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A ballooning workload is putting corporate legal teams to the test. Here’s how companies can fix it.
The pandemic is an opportunity for corporate legal teams to embrace change, per a new study. Legal departments can harness technology to...