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1 month ago |
forbes.es | Stephen Pastis |Hank Tucker |Jeff Kauflin
La industria fintech ha vivido una buena cantidad de fracasos espectaculares y giros inesperados en los últimos años. Ahora, una de las historias más extrañas se ha vuelto aún más extraña. La fintech californiana Aspiration Partners nació en 2013 como un banco digital con conciencia ambiental. Recaudó casi 600 millones de dólares de un grupo de inversores de renombre, como Leonardo DiCaprio, Drake, Robert Downey Jr. y el multimillonario Steve Ballmer.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Stephen Pastis
The fintech industry has seen its fair share of spectacular failures and bizarre plot twists in recent years. Now, one of the stranger tales has gotten even weirder. California fintech Aspiration Partners started life in 2013 as an environmentally conscious digital bank. It raised nearly $600 million from a star-studded roster of investors including Leonardo DiCaprio, Drake, Robert Downey Jr. and billionaire Steve Ballmer.
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1 month ago |
techtelegraph.co.uk | Stephen Pastis |Alex Knapp |Jeff Kauflin
The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. Earlier this month, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas ordered a seizure of a little over 749 Bitcoin, worth about $62.5 million. The order also included hundreds of thousands in various currencies alongside gold coins and bars.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Stephen Pastis
CEO William Lansing has burnished the credit score’s dominance and pushed through price hikes, making a bundle for long-term shareholders and himself an almost-billionaire. By Stephen Pastis, Forbes StaffIn January 2012, the revenue, profit, stock price and reputation of credit scoring company FICO still hadn’t recovered from the hit they all took during the housing bust and financial crisis of 2007 and 2008.
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2 months ago |
forbes.com | Stephen Pastis
Bybit, a Dubai, United Arab Emirates-headquartered crypto exchange, saw more than $1.4 billion worth of Ethereum stolen from its platform in a smash-and-grab style hacking Friday—one that’s become a historic moment for crypto theft and raised several questions about what the extensive hacking means for the industry. Starting Friday around 10 a.m., crypto investigator ZachXBT noticed “suspicious outflows” of Ethereum coursing through the platform, he posted in a Telegram channel.
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