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Is there a chance that bitcoin (or anyother crypto currency) could challenge the US dollar? Or, looking back to the past: Should the world go back to the "gold-standard". Here are a couple of articles and resources looking at the issue...
A collection of resources about financial markets, focusing on bonds and yields. This compilation offers an in-depth exploration of the role of bonds in the financial ecosystem, the mechanics of yield calculations, and the implications of interest rate fluctuations. Key themes include the types of bonds available (government, corporate, municipa...
a collection of articles and videos to help students understand financial markets. A collection of resources about financial markets, designed to enhance understanding of the complex systems that facilitate the buying and selling of securities. This compilation covers key themes such as the structure and functions of various financial market...
a collection of articles and videos to help students understand financial markets
a collection of articles and resources about ISA's - Income Share Agreements
Introduction to Ethereum (blockchain technology) - for developers, coders
Stripe - business model, strategy - analysis by Ben Thompson, Stratechery
Fintech - credit card processing
Introduction to Coding Blockchain (Microsoft Azure developers guide)
Expense tracking tools and resources for global travelers
Apps for travel - tools, resources for global travelers
a collection of articles and videos to help students understand global financial markets - with a focus on currencies, and global debt markets
a collection of articles and videos to help students understand global financial markets - with a focus on currencies, and global debt markets
Fintech - Financial Innovation, Startups and VC in Africa
Fintech - future of Digital finance, payments, banking
Credit Cards - Visa, Mastercard, more
A collection of articles and resources for entrepreneurs and investors -- funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet
Crowdfunding - examples of companies using crowd funding
legal issues around bitcoin, the blockchain, and cryptocurrencies
Crowdfunding - rules, regulations
Intuit — the accounting, tax filing and financial planning software giant behind QuickBooks, TurboTax, Mint, Credit Karma
Bookkeeping and expenses - tools, resources
London UK - financial center
a collection of articles about Financial Technology in Latin America
issues and regulations related to ICO's - Initial Coin Offerings
Introduction to Initial Coin Offerings (crytocurrency token). A collection of articles and videos looking at issues realted to crypto currency tokens
Where and how to buy and trade tokens? A collection of articles about Token Trading - Blockchain ICOs for Fund Raising
issues and regulations related to ICO's - Initial Coin Offerings
Introduction to Initial Coin Offerings (crytocurrency token). A collection of articles and videos looking at issues realted to crypto currency tokens
issues and regulations related to Blockchain ICOs and warnings (2017) from Regulations

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Chase to Launch Consumer Travel Portal; Claims Top 5 U.S. Travel Provider With $8 Billion in Sales

Chase is planning to launch ChaseTravel.com later this year as a consumer portal for its cardholders and its bank customers, a total of 66 million ... (2022)


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Investing in Flowcarbon - web3 on-chain carbon credit tokenization platform | Andreessen Horowitz

Flowcarbon is building an on-chain carbon credit tokenization platform through an open protocol that allows all market participants equal access. A... (2022)


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Teen-focused fintech app Copper raises $29M, grows to over 800,000 users in less than a year – TechCrunch

Copper, a digital banking service aimed at teens, has raised $29 million in Series A funding in a “preemptive” round led by Fiat Ventures. (2022)


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Brazilian fintech Creditas lands $4.8B valuation and Fidelity as an investor

Brazilian lender Creditas announced today that it has raised $260 million in a Series F funding that values the company at $4.8 billion. That’s up ... (2022)


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Investing in Carry1st | Andreessen Horowitz

Carry1st is Africa's leading mobile games publisher, serving over 1 million users today. Most notably, Carry1st has aggregated Africa's disparate p... (2022)


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The hidden costs of cutting Russia off from SWIFT | The Economist

America’s foes would rush to alternatives, hastening its financial decline | Finance & economics (2022)


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Africa’s fintech firms vie for domination | The Economist

As investment pours in, they are expanding across the continent and into new services | Finance & economics (2021)


Article

Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12b

Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU), the global technology platform that makes TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, today announced that it has agreed t... (2021)


Article

SoftBank-backed Atom Finance raises $28M, will open Miami office - Refresh Miami

Investment platform Atom Finance is opening a Miami office on the heels of raising $28 million in a Series B funding round led by the Miami-based S... (2021)


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Tiger Global in talks to back BharatPe at $2.5 billion valuation – TechCrunch

Indian fintech startup BharatPe is in advanced stages of talks to raise about $250 million in a new financing round led by Tiger Global, two source... (2021)


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Fintech giant Klarna raises $639M at a $45.6B valuation amid ‘massive momentum’ in the US – TechCrunch

Just over three months after its last funding round, European fintech giant Klarna is announcing today that it has raised another $639 million at a... (2021)


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Amount raises $99M at a $1B+ valuation to help banks better compete with fintechs – TechCrunch

Amount, a company that provides technology to banks and financial institutions, has raised $99 million in a Series D funding round at a valuation o... (2021)


Article

Govcoins - The digital currencies that matter

Get ready for Fedcoin and the e-euro | Leaders The rise of e-money… (2021)


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Pomelo raises $9M to build a payments infrastructure for LatAm fintechs – TechCrunch

Pomelo, a startup building a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America, has raised $9 million in a seed round of funding. The Buenos Aires-ba... (2021)


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Investing in Greenlight - Andreessen Horowitz

a vast majority of parents still give their children spending money in cash because there hasn’t been a safe, purpose-built financial service for f... (2021)


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Fintech comes to America at last | The Economist

The digital payments boom | Leaders (2021)


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How a Google Street View image of your house predicts your risk of a car accident | MIT Technology Review

Google Street View has become a surprisingly useful way to learn about the world without stepping into it. People use it to plan journeys, to explo... (2021)


Article

Latin America’s Fintech Boom - a16z Andreessen Horowitz

The key market dynamics in the region, the headwinds and tailwinds, and five core areas of opportunity for the next billion-dollar fintech companie... (2021)


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Mortgage is suddenly sexy as SoftBank pumps $500M in Better.com at a $6B valuation – TechCrunch

Digital mortgage lender Better.com has raised a $500 million round from Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank that values the company at $6 bil... (2021)


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Pipe, which aims to be the ‘Nasdaq for revenue,’ raises more money at a $2B valuation – TechCrunch

Fast-growing fintech Pipe has raised another round of funding at a $2 billion valuation, just weeks after raising $50 million in growth funding, ac... (2021)


Article

PayPal will let US users pay with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin starting today - The Verge

After announcing that it would support the feature late last year, PayPal announced that US customers can now use cryptocurrencies on their PayPal ... (2021)


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Investing in Wrapbook - Andreessen Horowitz

Project-based workers are an exploding population: 59 million Americans performed freelance work in 2020, representing 22% year-over-year growth an... (2021)


Article

NFTs make the internet ownable — Mirror

Before tech, I was an artist manager in music. When I started the firm, I believed one thing about the music industry very firmly: ownership endows... (2021)


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Stock trading service Public raises $220M at unicorn valuation – TechCrunch

The day before Robinhood goes under the the Congressional hammer, domestic rival Public.com announced this morning that it has closed a $220 millio... (2021)


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Tesla Invests $1.5B in Bitcoin, Plans to Accept Crypto Payments - CoinDesk

The announcement that the crypto world has largely been waiting for is here: Tesla has invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin. (2021)


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Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews - The Verge

Google is actively removing negative reviews of the Robinhood app from the Google Play Store, the company confirmed to The Verge. After some disgru... (2021)


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Milo, a Miami fintech startup, raises $6M seed round - and it's hiring - Refresh Miami

Milo, a Miami-based digital banking and home mortgage startup serving international consumers, announced Wednesday it has raised a $6 million seed ... (2021)


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Fintech’s Final Frontier: Central Banks and Disintermediation - a16z

The government should turn every social security number into a unique and secure bank account, enabling it to deposit money directly to consumers. ... (2021)


Article

Why a16z Opposes Secretary Mnuchin’s FinCEN Midnight Crypto Rulemaking

A Treasury Department proposal bypasses established rulemaking procedures, fails to solve the real issues, and threatens to harm U.S. innovation. (2021)


Article

Cleo, the AI-powered ‘financial assistant’, raises $44M Series B led by EQT Ventures

Cleo, the London-founded “financial assistant” that takes the form of an app and chatbot and now counts the U.S. as its largest market, has raised ... (2020)


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How Robinhood Makes Money (Jan 2019)

Robinhood, an investing app valued at over $5 billion, says it's trying to "democratize America's financial system" by making investing accessible ... (2020)


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How Robinhood Really Makes Money (Dec 2018)

Want to join our free STOCKHUB discord chat? Here is the link https://discord.gg/MkquuN7 After yesterdays video on the Robinhood app 3% savings acc... (2020)


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TED talk: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg

Published on Dec 8, 2016 Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the co... (2018)


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What gives a dollar bill its value? - Doug Levinson | TED-Ed

TED-Ed Published on Jun 23, 2014 The value of money is determined by how much (or how little) of it is in circulation. But who makes that dec... (2018)


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The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services | a16z

a16z Published on Jan 21, 2018 Traditional banking services have fallen flat for an enormous segment of the population -- whether because they’... (2018)


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The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech | a16z

a16z, Published on Oct 25, 2017, Financial services startup, or fintech, are innovating across broad categories — in core banking, new financial s... (2017)


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How Credit Card Processing Works - Transaction Cycle & 2 Pricing Models

How Credit Card Processing Works : http://www.bancardsales.com How Does Credit Card Processing Work This video explains how credit card payments ar... (2017)


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A Brief History of Credit Cards (or What Happens When You Swipe) | a16z

a16z General Partner Alex Rampell helps solve the great mystery of what actually happens when you swipe your credit card?! He takes us from the beg... (2017)


Video

TED talk: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg

Published on Dec 8, 2016 Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the co... (2017)


Video

Visa Launches AI Agents for Shopping

Visa announced that it is allowing customers to use AI platforms to make purchases and is collaborating with Anthropic, Microsoft Corp, OpenAI and ... (2025)


Video

The Open Source Movement in Fintech

Imagine that financial services could be built like Lego blocks — that developers could easily combine different pieces to discover hundreds of new... (2023)


Podcast

Offshore Finance - What the ‘Pandora Papers’ Mean for Bitcoin - CoinDesk Podcast

Listen to this episode from CoinDesk Podcast Network on Spotify. A new 2.94 terabyte data leak doxes tens of thousands of offshore accounts of prom... (2021)


Podcast

The Federal Reserve is thinking about a digital dollar - Marketplace

Plus, what shoe sales are telling us about the economic recovery, President Joe Biden is asking federal agencies to gauge the financial risk of cli... (2021)


Podcast

20VC Podcast: SPACs. What Are They? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape?

Listen to this episode from The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch on Spotify. Kevin Hartz is Co-Founder & Partner @ ... (2020)


Podcast

16 Minutes on the News #7: Apple Card, BEC Scams Federal Indictment – Andreessen Horowitz

This is episode #7 of our news show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why ... (2019)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Fintech for Startups and Incumbents – Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode — which originally aired as a video on YouTube — a16z general partner Alex Rampell (and former fintech entrepreneur as the CEO and ... (2019)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: All about Stablecoins – Andreessen Horowitz

The history, evolution, and use of money revolves around the important concept of debt: It's what allows us to "time travel" and build toward the f... (2018)


Podcast

How Stripe's COO approaches company building

In this episode of Resources for Humans, Jack sits down with Stripe’s Chief Operating Officer, Claire Hughes Johnson, who spent over a decade at Go... (2018)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Market Shifts – Andreessen Horowitz

NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman runs one of the world’s largest financial services companies, including the NASDAQ stock exchange that’s home to more tha... (2017)


Podcast

Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product)

Listen now (77 min) — Geoff Charles is VP of Product at Ramp—the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time. In today’s podcast, we will discuss:... (2023)


Website

Frontier - An advance market commitment (AMC) to accelerate carbon removal

Frontier is an advance market commitment to buy an initial $925M of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030. It’s funded by Stripe, Alpha... (2022)


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Pilot.com - Bookkeeping and tax for startups and small businesses

Focus on your business, knowing that our expert bookkeepers, aided by software superpowers, are taking care of your books. (2021)


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Crypto Trading 101 - full set of guides - CoinDesk

CoinDesk unpacks and explains Fibonacci retracements, a tool used to predict potential price support and resistance, for crypto traders. (2018)


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Ramp - Corporate Cards for Startups & New Businesses

Ramp's finance automation platform is a game-changer for startups with a corporate card solution. We provide more than your average business credit... (2023)


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Pilot.co - Hire Anywhere | Global payroll, benefits & compliance - pay contractors and employees worldwide

Easily onboard and pay contractors and employees worldwide, in one platform. Pilot is your all-in-one payroll and HR solution for your global team.... (2023)


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Splitwise - sharing expenses with anyone

Splitwise is a free tool for friends and roommates to track bills and other shared expenses, so that everyone gets paid back. On the web, iPhone, a... (2022)


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Wren | Offset your carbon footprint

Wren helps you calculate and offset your personal carbon emissions through a monthly subscription. (2022)


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