FinTech
Klarna tops third-quarter revenue estimates in first earnings report since IPO
Key Points Klarna topped Wall Street third-quarter revenue expectations in its first earnings report since its IPO on the NYSE in September. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told CNBC that the company is benefitting from U.S. growth and growing adoption of Klarna Card and fair financing. Siemiatkowski said the company isn’t yet seeing “material differences” in payback […]
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JPMorgan Chase wins fight with fintech firms over fees to access customer data
An exterior view of the new JPMorgan Chase global headquarters building at 270 Park Avenue on Nov. 13, 2025 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase has secured deals ensuring it will get paid by the fintech firms responsible for nearly all the data requests made by third-party apps […]
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Anthropic to spend $50 billion on U.S. AI infrastructure, starting with Texas, New York data centers
Anthropic announced plans Wednesday to spend $50 billion on a U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out, starting with custom data centers in Texas and New York. The facilities, which will be designed to support the company’s rapid enterprise growth and its long-term research agenda, will be developed in partnership with Fluidstack. Fluidstack is an AI cloud […]
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Coinbase moves incorporation to Texas from Delaware, following Musk’s lead
Brian Armstrong, chief executive officer of Coinbase Global Inc., speaks during the Messari Mainnet summit in New York, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Coinbase is following Tesla out of Delaware and into Texas. Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday […]
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Affirm CEO says furloughed federal employees are starting to lose interest in shopping
Affirm CEO Max Levchin said Friday that while the buy now, pay later firm isn’t seeing credit stress among federally employed borrowers due to the government shutdown, there are signs of a change in shopping habits. “We are seeing a very subtle loss of interest in shopping just for that group, and a couple of […]
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Block sinks 10% after weak third quarter results miss Wall Street estimates
Block shares fell 10% Friday after weak third-quarter earnings fell short of Wall Street expectations and showed slowing profit growth for the company’s Square service. Here is how the company did compared with LSEG estimates: Earnings per share: 54 cents adjusted vs. 67 cents expected Revenue: $6.11 billion vs. $6.31 billion expected Revenue for the quarter was […]
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Google’s decade-long bet on custom chips is turning into company’s secret weapon in AI race
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Nvidia has established itself as the undisputed leader in artificial intelligence chips, selling large quantities of silicon to most of the world’s biggest tech companies en route to a $4.5 trillion market cap. One of Nvidia’s key clients is Google, which has been loading up on the chipmaker’s […]
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Robinhood doubles revenue as it beats third-quarter earnings expectations
Robinhood beat Wall Street expectations for the third quarter on Wednesday, extending a hot streak that has made it one of the biggest large-cap U.S. tech stocks this year. Here is how Robinhood’s results compared to Wall Street estimates, according to analysts surveyed by LSEG: Earnings per share: 61cents vs. 53 cents expected Revenue: $1.27 […]
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Standard Chartered CEO believes nearly all global transactions will move to the blockchain ‘eventually’
Standard Chartered Plc bank branch in Hong Kong Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered, foresees a future in which nearly all global transactions are conducted on a digital blockchain ledger, he told a crowd in Hong Kong on Monday, as crypto adoption amongst mainstream banking and finance institutions grows. […]
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Evolve Bank CEO fired after propositioning FBI agent who pretended to be a teen boy
Evolve Bank CEO Bob Hartheimer booking photo. Source: Shelby County Jail Bob Hartheimer, CEO of Tennessee’s Evolve Bank & Trust, was fired after U.S. law enforcement officials caught him propositioning a law enforcement officer posing as a 15-year-old boy on gay dating app Grindr. On Oct. 19, an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation […]
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