Sentences with phrase «backed financial tech»

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That comes as financial stocks have been the biggest stock market winners since Nov. 8, thanks to Trump's promises to pull back on banking regulation such as Dodd - Frank, and tech stocks sank on fears of the president - elect's more protectionist trade policies.

Jay's career spans traditional banking to tech startups: He was a commercial loan officer at Old Kent Financial Corporation — back before it became part of Fifth Third — and helped launch TicketTruck, a social commerce platform.

For example, financial planner and Texas Tech associate professor John Salter demonstrated how different claiming strategies, such as filing and suspending and filing a restricted application, that can significantly boost the amount of inflation - adjusted Social Security payments over a lifetime and how a reverse mortgage might be used as a back - up line of credit that can be drawn on during prolonged market downturns to reduce the chance of running out of money.

But the episode highlights the financial difficulties that have plagued the company from the outset — an issue that's noteworthy ever since Faraday's main financier, the Chinese tech - conglomerate LeEco, announced last month that it was slashing its U.S. workforce and dramatically scaling back its operations in the nation.

However, a company called TradeWind Markets, a tech provider that is backed by three mega financial firms, Goldcorp, Sprott, and IEX Group, just launched a digital gold trading and exchange platform.

While distributed ledgers were once considered a way for financial firms to upgrade back - office processes, some appear to be changing their tune on the tech.

Such public musings come at a time when rumors persist that some major financial institutions are cutting back on investments in blockchain tech, while members of R3CEV's blockchain consortium allegedly publicly voice issues with the proposed funding the startup is requesting in order to move forward on its work.

CoinDesk A distributed ledger tech pilot, aimed at simplifying back - office reconciliation processes at major financial institutions, is moving forward.

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