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Betterment and Robinhood clash on how to disrupt investing
What does the future of the financial services industry look like? The founders of two startups with two very different answers to that question took the stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016...
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Robinhood lets China trade US stocks free through Baidu’s finance app
Zero-fee stock trading startup Robinhood is barging into China, even though it lacks explicit regulatory approval. Robinhood will enter this legal grey area through an integration into Chinese search...
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The fintech world beyond Silicon Valley and Europe: Emerging market contenders
According to a recent study by Accenture, investments in fintech hit $5.3 billion in the first quarter of this year (having grown 75 percent in 2015, exceeding $22 billion). These are staggering...
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Free stock trade app Robinhood monetizes with $10/month to buy on credit
Robinhood says it will never charge commissions to trade stocks, but the $66 million-funded startup is finally ramping up monetization with the launch of “Robinhood Gold” premium features. For $10 per...
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Innovation under the hood will rev the engines of a fintech revolution
New consumer-facing financial applications are being built on top of old banking infrastructure, while other startups are going around financial infrastructure altogether. Together, they are...
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Robinhood stock trading app valued at $1.3 billion with big raise from DST
Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood has added to its coffers, raising another big round of funding. According to sources, the round was led by Yuri Milner investment vehicle DST Global and values the...
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Robinhood stock-trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation
Zero-fee stock-trading app Robinhood has joined the unicorn club. That’s thanks to it reaching 2 million total monthly users, and 17 percent month-over-month growth of its revenue-driving Robinhood...
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Simply Wall St. raises $1.8 million from its own customers to build out...
Financial services apps are all the rage these days and one of the latest to capitalize on the trend is Simply Wall St. which closed a $1.8 million round (2.4 million Australian dollars) in its latest...
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Piggy looks to build a simple app for first-time investors in India
The name “Piggy” might seem weirdly uninviting for an investment app — which is serious business — but co-founder Nikhil Mantha says it holds a kind of comfort that should attract users in India to...
View ArticleRobinHood’s chief executive on the importance of design in fintech
RobinHood, the no-fee stock trading mobile phone app, was able to attract 1 million people to their waiting list before a product was even launched. In this podcast, chief executive Baiju Bhatt...
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Robinhood preps for zero-fee stock trading launch in China
Robinhood will bring its free U.S. stock trading app to the world, and just announced one of the first countries will be China. To prepare, today it launched a Chinese-language version in the U.S. and...
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Simplify your stock-picking process with these apps
Investing in the stock market made easy — that’s the goal of these apps, which make investing more convenient and help you keep tabs on the market updates. And you don’t have to be a finance whiz to...
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Betterment and Robinhood clash on how to disrupt investing
What does the future of the financial services industry look like? The founders of two startups with two very different answers to that question took the stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016...
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Robinhood lets China trade US stocks free through Baidu’s finance app
Zero-fee stock trading startup Robinhood is barging into China, even though it lacks explicit regulatory approval. Robinhood will enter this legal grey area through an integration into Chinese search...
View ArticleThe fintech world beyond Silicon Valley and Europe: Emerging market contenders
According to a recent study by Accenture, investments in fintech hit $5.3 billion in the first quarter of this year (having grown 75 percent in 2015, exceeding $22 billion). These are staggering...
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Free stock trade app Robinhood monetizes with $10/month to buy on credit
Robinhood says it will never charge commissions to trade stocks, but the $66 million-funded startup is finally ramping up monetization with the launch of “Robinhood Gold” premium features. For $10 per...
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Innovation under the hood will rev the engines of a fintech revolution
When the internet was first created in the 1970’s and 1980’s with the introduction of the ARPANET its early years were focused on the development of infrastructure and protocol — beyond the knowledge...
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Robinhood stock trading app valued at $1.3 billion with big raise from DST
Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood is completing a huge fund raise to fuel its attack on old brokerage firms that charge around $7 to $10 per trade. According to sources, the round is led by Yuri...
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Robinhood stock-trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation
Zero-fee stock-trading app Robinhood has joined the unicorn club. That’s thanks to it reaching 2 million total users, and 17 percent month-over-month growth of its revenue-driving Robinhood Gold...
View ArticleSimply Wall St. raises $1.8 million from its own customers to build out...
Financial services apps are all the rage these days and one of the latest to capitalize on the trend is Simply Wall St. which closed a $1.8 million round (2.4 million Australian dollars) in its latest...
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