June 9, 2021 @ 4:35 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Jay-Z, Ashton Kutcher, Ray Dalio, and Stanley Druckenmiller lead the lineup of speakers at the ninth annual J.P. Morgan/Robin Hood Investors Conference, scheduled for June 16 in New York City. This year’s edition will be a virtual session. The previous eight events raised $44 million… Read More

June 9, 2021 @ 3:35 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

No one should be shocked Bitcoin’s price fell after the United States recovered most of the cryptocurrency used to pay the Colonial Pipeline hackers, an analyst with GlobalData said this week. Given cryptocurrency’s libertarian roots, the fact a government could track and seize money designed… Read More

June 8, 2021 @ 10:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

President Nayib Bukele made waves recently when he announced his intention to have El Salvador become the first sovereign nation to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. He announced this at the Bitcoin 2021 Conference in Miami. For Bukele, the move will hopefully spur an economy… Read More

June 8, 2021 @ 8:25 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week did not get off to a good start for those tasked with corporate cybersecurity as one single breach saw more than half of the number of passwords stolen. In all of 2020 swiped in one swoop. On June 7, what many believe to… Read More

June 8, 2021 @ 5:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Loan approval percentages at both big and small banks inched up in May, with smaller banks remaining more generous. That data comes from Biz2Credit’s Small Business Lending Index, which was released earlier today. It showed those banks with at least $10 billion in assets approved… Read More

June 8, 2021 @ 5:09 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) spending is set to nearly triple between 2018 and 2025, data from BNPL app Definanzas.com suggests, with much of that due to pandemic-driven spending pattern changes. Definanzas.com has seen its number of monthly active users grow by 186 percent year-over-year… Read More