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JPMorgan | February 24, 2020

US banking giant JPMorgan is to launch a UK digital bank later this year in an attempt to acquire a share of an increasingly crowded market. The bank will adopt the Chase branding and offer a number of savings and lending products, according to Sky News. JPMorgan will be following the lead of rival Goldman Sachs, which launched its Marcus brand in the UK in 2018 and now boasts over 300,000 customers. Rumours of JPMorgan's intentions have been circulating for some time. In June 2019, the US b...

Bank of America | January 15, 2020

Bank of America Corp got stung by lower interest rates in the fourth quarter, sending its profit down 4%, a trend that management expects to continue this year. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender is especially vulnerable to rate movements because of the composition of its balance sheet. As the Federal Reserve cut rates three times last year, analysts predicted Bank of America’s earnings would suffer. The bank blunted the impact last quarter by growing loans at a rapid clip, and man...

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KodyPay | July 13, 2021

KodyPay, a rapidly expanding payments Fintech that works with Visa, MasterCard, and IBM, recently raised an additional $3.25 million. The funding round was oversubscribed, involving all of the major shareholders as well as additional high-profile investors, bringing the total raised to US$6 million in less than a year. Hank Uberoi (Former Executive Chairman/CEO, Earthport PLC), Paul Rippon (Co-Founder, Monzo Bank), Adam Knight (Chairman, CoinFloor and BeZero Carbon), Alok Sama (Former President ...

Wall Street | January 28, 2020

The S&P 500 rose over 1% on Tuesday as a surge in Apple and other technology stocks helped the benchmark index recover from its worst selloff in about four months that was sparked by concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. Markets across the world stabilized as the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said he was confident in China's ability to contain the virus outbreak, which has killed 106 people in the country, prompted businesses to close operations and curbed travel. Preside...