I have a bank branch in my pocket. It’s open 24/7, wherever I happen to be. With it, I can conduct just about any banking transaction I want. The exception is withdrawing cash, and I can do that at almost … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 2 ]Springfield, MA-based Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company is launching a venture capital firm to invest in startups that will help the company improve its life insurance, disability, annuity, long-term care, retirement plans, and investment businesses. MassMutual Ventures LLC will receive … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]“If no one seems to understand, start your own revolution and cut out the middleman.”
“I’m not even sure what I want, but that’s not the point – it’s that I want it now.”
“Whenever the old gives way to the new, everybody with vested interests in the old starts crying that the world will stop. There aren’t many people with vested interests in the new.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
The ongoing H2O Asset Management saga is a tremendous black eye for Natixis and for the fund industry as a whole. https://j.mp/2RXRiUp (@FT paywall)
Today @ 12:00 PM EST. Inclusive Financial Services.
@FinTechSandbox Executive Director Kelly Fryer. With Hannah Arnold @FPrimeCapital, Timothy Flacke, Mohammed Dastigir, Head of FinTech & HealthTech Partnerships @massmutual.
https://fintechsandboxdemoday7.splashthat.com
Composer Eric Chasalow Zooms about his new album, Ghosts of Our Former Selves, on 10/15, 4 pm. “It’s like Chasalow got bitten by the Bowie bug and then caught a simple Sonic Youth virus"--@kurt_rohde. @BrandeisU http://brandeis.edu/music/graduate/colloquium.html
2Accounts payable automation software provider @MineralTree announces $50MM Series D led by existing investors and two acquisitions: https://j.mp/3jda725 #FinTech
JPMorgan Chase is putting its global media planning and buying account up for review: https://j.mp/2ZZm03J Not surprising as Chase named a new CMO earlier this year.
