Nov 2 (Reuters) – Arta Finance, a fintech that aims to replicate the family office experience for a wider audience through artificial intelligence, debuted on Wednesday with $90 million in funding from investors who include Betsy Cohen and former Google (GOOGL.O) chief Eric Schmidt. Calling the operation a “digital family office,” Arta CEO Caesar Sengupta, who led Google’s payments initiatives until 2021, said the startup will offer AI-personalized portfolios and alternative investments to… Source link
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The Education Department (ED) under the Trump administration unleashed a lot more harm than good for students across the country, according to former Education Secretary John B. King Jr. “The reality is [former Education Secretary] Betsy DeVos was a disaster for education,” King said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It’s true for K-12. It’s also true for higher ed.” King, who served as Education Secretary during the final months of President Obama’s second term and is currently Source link
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TipRanks The Race for Vaccine Against COVID-19 Variants Heats Up; 3 Stocks to Consider Let’s talk about the economy and COVID-19. Normally, this is a subject that will dwell on the economic disaster of the past year – the sharp recession last winter, the huge spike in unemployment, the unprecedented surge in government debt. All of these are important, even urgent, topics for discussion, but we’re here to talk about vaccines and opportunity. Specifically, the vaccines coming out of the… Source link
Read More »eToro Nears $10 Billion Merger With Betsy Cohen SPAC
(Bloomberg) — Trading platform EToro, a rival to Robinhood Markets Inc., plans to go public via a merger with a blank-check firm led by serial dealmaker Betsy Cohen. The agreement with FinTech Acquisition Corp. V values the combined company at about $10.4 billion, according to a statement Tuesday confirming a Bloomberg report. The companies are raising about $650 million in equity to support the deal. Investors in the equity transaction included ION Investment Group, Softbank Vision Fund II,… Source link
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TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Insiders Are Snapping Up President John Kennedy famously said, once, “A rising tide lifts all boats,” and this is true in the stock markets, too. We’re in the midst, now, of just such a rising tide – at least for the short term. The main indexes, the Dow, the S&P, and the NASDAQ, are all up between 9% and 12.5% this month, and the trends are positive. The recent election, making clear the prospect of a divided government unlikely to pass radical… Source link
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