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NAGA Announces Strategic Partnership with TipRanks

Finovate

German trading and investing platform NAGA has announced a strategic partnership with stock research company TipRanks. The partnership will bring advanced stock analysis and institutional-grade research tools to retail investors. Founded in 2012, TipRanks won Best of Show in its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2013.

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FICO Research: Broader Mix of Consumers Obtaining New Mortgages

FICO

Many high scoring consumers took advantage of the historically low mortgage rates observed in 2012-2013 to refinance their mortgages. Also, building off our millennial research, we quantified how mortgage 90+ day delinquency rates over 2 years vary by borrower’s age. Mortgage Borrowers: Increases and Decreases to Their FICO Scores.

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Election Season Has SMEs Stressed, Says Research

PYMNTS

According to researchers, the Small Business Economic Survey found that SMEs in the region are more pessimistic about the nation’s economy in 2016 than they were in 2015. Researchers pointed to the impending presidential election as one possible explanation for this drop in positive outlook among small business owners.

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Liquidnet Integrates bondIT’s Scorable Credit Analytics to Help Traders Anticipate Trends

Finovate

Embedded is bondIT’s end-to-end, integrated portfolio construction, research, and trading solution. The company began the year with news that Fundamentum Investment Management had begun using bondIT’s portfolio optimization and credit research solution. bondIT was founded in 2012. Etai Ravid is founder and CEO.

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VC Continent: Europe’s Top Venture Capital Investors By Country

CB Insights

Specifically, we analyzed the most active VC investors 2012 – 2017 YTD (08/30/2017), including VCs, corporate VCs, growth equity firms, and super angels. FINTECH IN EUROPE RESEARCH BRIEFING. Since 2012, German tech companies have seen more than 1,600 deals worth over $10B. Notable recent deals include a $3.4M

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Bank Branch Closings Take Toll On Rural Communities 

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lost bank branches between 2012 and 2017, with rural areas feeling the brunt of the closures, according to research from the Federal Reserve released on Monday (Nov. The research shows that loan interest rates go up as the distance increases between local bank branches and businesses. Earlier this month, the U.S.

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Infographic: Facebook’s Biggest Acquisitions

CB Insights

Instagram ($1B, 2012), a photo sharing application, continues to see major growth, outshining Facebook itself. Face.com ($100M, 2012) is a facial recognition software company, offering a platform for developers and publishers to automatically detect and recognize faces in photos. The app counts 1.5B+ users in over 180 countries.