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WSFS taps blockchain firm Intain to automate capital markets transactions

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WSFS Bank is working with Intain, a blockchain firm based in Chennai, India, to help automate capital markets transactions. based bank, a subsidiary of WSFS Financial, said it’s using Intain’s blockchain-based tool to facilitate trustee reporting for asset-backed securities transactions. The Wilmington, Del.-based

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Initialized Capital Management’s Fifth Fund Notches $230M

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Initialized Capital Management has notched $230 million for Initialized V , the California venture firm’s fifth fund, which is geared toward backing early-stage companies, Bloomberg reported. Initialized Capital Management Co-Founder Garry Tan told Bloomberg, “We love finding tomorrow’s unicorns.”. million in a Series A round.

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Report: Digital Lender SoFi Eyes IPO Via SPAC

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Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. Because of the pandemic, he said, younger people have begun investing, seeing the market downturns as an opportunity.

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Cryptocurrency Market Tumbles; Bitcoin Falls 12 Percent

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11), the market came crashing down. CNBC reported that bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, fell over 12 percent from a day earlier, to as low as $30,863. 7), the cryptocurrency market cap topped $1 trillion. Then, on Monday (Jan. trillion a day earlier. Last week (Jan.

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eCommerce Site Wish Prices IPO Shares At $24, Report Says

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In another sign of the strength of initial public offerings (IPOs) right now, eCommerce site Wish has sold shares to investors at the top of its price range, the Financial Times (FT) reported. billion and gave it an implied market capitalization of $14 billion. This helped Wish raise $1.1 million sales a day.

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Report: 'K-Shaped' Recovery Divides Corporates, SMBs

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. — think Amazon , Starbucks , McDonald's and Walmart — are expected to get even bigger post-pandemic, while small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) fight for survival, the Financial Times (FT) reported Tuesday (Dec. While people hunkered down, companies providing digital delivery of essentials saw business soar. A record $2.5

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FDIC Looks To Modernize Bank Reporting

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(FDIC) is considering nixing its quarterly reports of banks in an attempt to modernize the way data is handled. To do so, the FDIC is going about a new competition among 20 data and technology firms to try and find the best way to move forward, WSJ reported. Recently, the FDIC also eased up the Volcker Rule.

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