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CB Insights | Apr 19, 2022 Global fintech funding in Q1'22  was down 18% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) at $28.8B— the largest percentage drop in quarterly funding since 2018.  However Europe, Canada and Australia experienced degrees of funding growth In our State of Fintech 2021 Report, we dive into global investment trends to spotlight takeaways including: See: 

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have released their 2021 tax returns. Here are a few key takeaways, according to experts.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from New York and other states to overturn the $10,000 limit on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

Pensions' cost-of-living adjustments largely aren't keeping up with inflation. The dynamic is most acute for state and local government retirees, experts said.

"There's a huge value to the employee for those benefits," said Sherri Bockhorst, senior vice president of innovation and strategy at Businessolver.

ComplianceX | Jack Kelly | Apr 20, 2022 For the second time in a month, the Securities and Exchange Commission has the crypto industry up in arms about what it calls an attempt at backdoor regulation that, depending on who you ask, falls anywhere on the spectrum between opaque and unconstitutional. At issue is an

"There's a huge value to the employee for those benefits," said Sherri Bockhorst, senior vice president of innovation and strategy at Businessolver.

CNBC | Rebecca Fannin | Apr 14, 2022 In the evolving metaverse economy, Yat Siu, the founder of a once little-known mobile gaming startup, is becoming known by a nickname: Mr. Metaverse. He's pivoting his Hong Kong-based company Animoca Brands to help shape Web3 in a way that he says will offer an alternative to

Scott Galloway | Apr 15, 2022 The most prosperous societies are built around free-market competition. It’s uncomfortable — harsh even — so we’ve tried to design societies based on planning and enforced economic equality. But communism leads to stagnation, repression, and economic collapse. China’s economy went from starving its people to minting self-made female billionaires

Decrypt | Stacy Elliott | Apr 14, 2022 The researchers’ model can complete in half an hour what would take a regular PC longer than a human lifetime. The Bank of Canada has become the first G7 country to turn to quantum computing to simulate scenarios where cryptocurrency and fiat currency can coexist. This week,

Georgia will likely be the next state to pass a personal finance education mandate, according to a bill tracker from Next Gen Personal Finance, a nonprofit.

Gold House Ventures aims to boost API leadership in the corporate world by promoting Asian entrepreneurs.

Betakit | Josh Scott  | Apr 18, 2022 Less than a month after closing its acquisition of Bitbuy, WonderFi has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto’s Coinberry, which offers a crypto trading platform, for approximately $38.5 million CAD in WonderFi stock, based on the company’s current share price. Once the deal has closed

Reuters via Global News | Staff | Apr 18, 2022 Elon Musk took a swipe at the board of Twitter on Monday after the social media company adopted a “poison pill” to protect itself from the second-biggest shareholder’s US$43 billion cash buyout offer. “Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year

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