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Moody’s Analytics Forecast: Resurgence of COVID-19 Could Cause Global Economic Depression
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Moody’s Analytics Forecast: Resurgence of COVID-19 Could Cause Global Economic Depression

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According to the Moody’s Analytics baseline economic forecast, real global GDP will fall by 4.5% this year as a result of COVID-19. Our base case for the US suggests that it will take until mid-decade for the economy to return to full-employment. Mark Zandi, Chief Economist at Moody’s Analytics, describes......
Powerlytics Announces Series B Fundraising Round Led By Brewer Lane Ventures
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Powerlytics Announces Series B Fundraising Round Led By Brewer Lane Ventures

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Powerlytics, a data provider that has complete, granular data for the 200 million adults and 30 million businesses that make up the U.S. economy, announced that Brewer Lane Ventures, a venture capital firm with a fintech focus, has acquired a $4 million stake in the company. Powerlytics will use the investment......
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Future-proofing Your Business Strategies: Lessons from Covid-19

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The world’s corporate leaders and governments are supposed to be ready for instantaneous change while honing in the ability to pivot their core plans and strategies overnight. However, no one could have been prepared for the effects and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. While global leaders have dealt with various......
VeriTran and Mambu Partner to Deliver Financial Digital Experiences in Record Time
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VeriTran and Mambu Partner to Deliver Financial Digital Experiences in Record Time

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VeriTran, a leading global Low-Code platform provider, and Mambu, a global cloud banking platform, announced their official partnership. The collaboration allows VeriTran’s front-end capabilities to integrate with Mambu’s true SaaS cloud banking platform, resulting in a streamlined solution that assists traditional banks in the US and Latin America launch their digital apps in......
Healthcare Finance Direct and Enova Decisions Team up to Build the New Standard of Patient Underwriting for Elective Healthcare Financing
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Healthcare Finance Direct and Enova Decisions Team up to Build the New Standard of Patient Underwriting for Elective Healthcare Financing

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Healthcare Finance Direct (HFD), a leading FinTech company, and Enova Decisions, an analytics company, announced a strategic partnership to build the new standard of patient underwriting for elective healthcare providers. This advanced patient finance underwriting model is powered by HFD’s platform and Enova Decisions’ consumer lending and real-time analytics expertise.......
Huobi University Looks to Partner with Experts To Reboot Global Blockchain Leadership Program After Covid-19 Pandemic
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Huobi University Looks to Partner with Experts To Reboot Global Blockchain Leadership Program After Covid-19 Pandemic

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Huobi University, the blockchain education arm of Huobi China is looking to partner with blockchain experts across the world to reboot the Global Blockchain Leadership Programme, the most popular and highly acclaimed top blockchain business education program in China, after the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More: Abrigo Adds Transparent Artificial Intelligence Scenarios,......
Francisco Partners Announces Closing of Nearly $10 Billion in Capital Commitments
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Francisco Partners Announces Closing of Nearly $10 Billion in Capital Commitments

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Francisco Partners (FP) announced the closing of approximately $10 billion in capital commitments across three funds: Francisco Partners VI, L.P., a $7.45 billion equity fund, Francisco Partners Agility II, L.P., a $1.5 billion equity fund, and FP Credit Partners, L.P., a $750 million opportunistic credit fund. Each fund was substantially......
Varo Raises $241 Million Series D as it Moves Closer to Being the First Fintech to Become a National Bank
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Varo Raises $241 Million Series D as it Moves Closer to Being the First Fintech to Become a National Bank

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Mobile banking company Varo Money, announced it has closed a $241 million USD Series D round, co-led by new investor Gallatin Point Capital and existing investor The Rise Fund, co-founded by TPG, U2 lead singer Bono and Jeff Skoll, a global entrepreneur, impact investor and movie producer. Other new investors joining the round include......
InterWork Alliance Launches to Standardize Token-Powered Ecosystems Worldwide
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InterWork Alliance Launches to Standardize Token-Powered Ecosystems Worldwide

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Platform-Neutral Organization Empowers Businesses to Standardize the Interchange of Tokenized Value Across Use Cases and Networks The InterWork Alliance (IWA) formally launched operations as a platform-neutral, non-profit organization dedicated to creating the standards frameworks needed to increase innovation across token-enabled ecosystems. Distributed applications have the potential to disrupt global economics, but......
CFA Institute Member Survey Shows Hiring Remains Uncertain
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CFA Institute Member Survey Shows Hiring Remains Uncertain

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77% of CFA charterholders report no change to their job, while firms in the financial space adopt a wait-and-see attitude for hiring CFA Institute, the global association of investment management professionals, surveyed its global membership to analyze the effects of the current economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic on......
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