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FINTECH

Google Cloud | May 28, 2021

Google Cloud announced Datashare for Financial Services today, a new solution designed to enable the whole capital markets ecosystem—market data publishers such as exchanges and other providers, and data consumers such as investment banks, asset managers, and hedge funds—to start sharing market data more securely and easily. Datashare is based on Google Cloud analytics services such as BigQuery and can use Analytics Hub. At the Google Cloud Financial Services Summit, Datashare was un...

Visa | July 29, 2020

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) has been notified of an unsolicited “mini-tender offer” by Ponos Industries LLC to purchase up to 1 million shares of its Class A common stock, representing approximately 0.06% of Visa’s outstanding shares of Class A common stock. Ponos’ offer price of $210.00 is 9.06% above the closing price of Visa’s Class A common stock on July 10, 2020, the last trading day prior to the date of the offer. While this price is presently above the current market...

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Burkland | March 18, 2021

Burkland, a full service fractional CFO and accounting provider for startups, today announced another dedicated Financial Technology practice team. Specifically created to address the issues and address the challenges facing Financial Technology startups, the new Fintech practice at Burkland offers a seasoned team of CFOs, Controllers and Bookkeepers. Not at all like most re-appropriated CFO and accountancy services, Burkland's new Fintech practice is the just one of its sort ...

Nymbus | March 31, 2020

Florida-based digital and core banking solution provider Nymbus has launched a new programme to help financial institutions faster process the loans US government is entrusting them to distribute to small businesses as part of its coronavirus relief package. As part of the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Recovery (CARES) Act, US president Donald Trump has set aside $349 billion for Small Business Administration (SBA) ‘Paycheck Protection’ loans. These are designed to...