Mark Water, Head of Sales at Barchart, shared insights into his company at Benzingas Fintech Deal Day. Barchart is a technology company that specializes in financial market data. Mark shares that, unlike competitors, being a technology company first enables them to leverage the latest and best technology to deliver financial data efficiently and accurately. The
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Billionaire investor Tim Draper has earned the title "adventure capitalist" by betting on a series of notable tech successes, including Hotmail, Skype, SpaceX, AngelList, SolarCity, Twitter, DocuSign, Coinbase, Robinhood, and Ancestry.com. Draper was an early supporter of Bitcoin BTC/USD and has made early predictions which for the past eight years have turned out to be
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The fallout from the collapse of failed crypto exchange FTX is forcing Web3 brands, and projects previously focused on managing the public’s perception, to concentrate on fighting for their very legitimacy, Laura K. Inamedinova, a Web3 marketing expert, has said. Besides just trying to convince backers and investors, Inamedinova said Web3 players have the more
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David Cameron, Britain’s former prime minister, is returning to public life with a new job teaching politics at a university in the Gulf state of Abu Dhabi. Cameron will lecture students on “practising politics and government in the age of disruption” for a three-week course in January at the New York University Abu Dhabi. It
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The clock is ticking on Congress waiving PAYGO for Build America Bonds, a budget bear trap that could delay promised subsidy payments totaling $14 billion to issuers. The dilemma has been a constant irritant to the muni market issuers who have based their budgets on promises of getting reimbursed by the federal government for bonds
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States have never spent more money, as general fund spending for all states topped $1.08 trillion for fiscal year 2022, an 18.3% increase over FY 2021 levels and the highest annual growth ever recorded by the National Association of State Budget Officers’ Fiscal Survey since its inception in 1979. That’s due to a number of
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An Oklahoma legislator has once again filed a bill prohibiting government contracts with companies, including banks that underwrite municipal bonds, if they “discriminate” against the firearm industry. Republican State Sen. Casey Murdock authored a similar bill that fell short of passage in the 2022 legislative session. “The bill actually had wide margins of support in
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Ether (ETH) price is down on Dec. 16 and the pre-FOMC rally to $1,350 was obliterated after Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell issued hawkish statements following a 0.50% hike in interest rates. The Ether sell-off follows a market-wide decline that has sent Ethereum network fees plummeting by 39.90% in the past 30-days. The total value
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