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SoFi vs. PayPal: Two Beaten-Down Fintech Stocks. Which Is the Better Comeback Story?
SoFi (SOFI 4.58%) and PayPal (PYPL 0.35%) are two of the most widely followed fintech stocks in the entire market, and both have been beaten down. SoFi has fallen by more than 45% from its 52-week high, despite reporting revenue growth of more than…
Are you a fintech seeking a bank charter? Consider these implications
Key insight: As fintechs rush to gain bank charters, their leaders are about to step into a very new compliance environment. They need to understand what they're getting themselves into. Supporting data: In 2025, there were as many bank charter…
FinTechs Face a Tougher Road on Cross-Border Deals
The questions surrounding a cross-border acquisition don't stop with ownership or market share. Governments increasingly want to understand what technologies are changing hands, who controls them and whether those assets could affect economic…
Buy, Hold, or Sell: PayPal Shed 46% as Wall Street Deserts Fintech. Is PYPL an Absolute Buy at $42?
PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL | PYPL Price Prediction) at $42.51 looks compelling for research. The stock has lost 37.46% over the past year while the business kept generating cash, retiring shares, and growing payment volume, and that gap between price…
Why AMD's AI Position Is Expanding (NASDAQ:AMD)
AMD now expects AI server CPU demand to double, raising its 2030 server CPU TAM above $120 billion. Data Center revenue surged 57% to $5.8 billion as EPYC adoption expanded across cloud, enterprise, healthcare, and finance. Cloud instances running…
Games Industry Faces More Painful Months Ahead
This article is for subscribers only. Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world. Today, Takashi Mochizuki reflects on the games industry's painful readjustment.
Take part: Mapping the future of digital payments in Africa
Take part in the survey and help shape an industry report on the future of digital payments in Africa. A snap survey among banks, fintechs, payment intermediaries and merchants reveals that 70% believe fraud risk has increased as digital payments…
Indian startup head appointed as new WhatsApp boss
Meta has tapped Indian fintech founder Kunal Shah as the new head of WhatsApp, as the US tech giant seeks ways to monetise the messaging app's massive user base. The announcement, made Monday night, was accompanied by news that Meta would also lead…
What Banking Can Learn From Retail's First-Party Data Playbook
Jordan Glazier, Founder and CEO of Wildfire Systems. Banks see the swipe, but retail sees the basket. That gap is the difference between a relevant offer and a forgotten one. Retailers have spent the past decade refining how first-party…
WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India's CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup
Meta is betting on India for WhatsApp's next chapter, naming entrepreneur Kunal Shah to lead the messaging app and succeed Will Cathcart, who is stepping down after nearly seven years at the helm to take on a new product-building role at the…
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NPCI appoints Gaurav Kochhar as Chief of Business
NPCI BHIM Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), has announced the appointment of Gaurav Kochhar as chief of business. At NBSL, Gaurav will lead initiatives to strengthen digital payments…
Scaling A Prop Firm: Three Technology Challenges No One Talks About
Justin Hertzberg is CEO of FPFX Tech, PropAccount and BullRush, leading prop firm technology and white-label solutions. Many proprietary trading firms that I've seen collapse, pause or falter in recent years did not fail due to a lack of…
Goldman Sachs U.S. Equity Insights Fund Q1 2026 Commentary
The Goldman Sachs U.S. Equity Insights Fund (I-share, net) returned -5.98% in the first quarter, underperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index, by -165 bps. Our Sentiment Analysis pillar was the largest detractor from excess returns during the…
Balance of Power: Policy Pulse for June 22, 2026
Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz deliver insight and analysis on the latest headlines from the White House and Capitol Hill Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz deliver insight and…
WhatsApp to be led by Indian start-up founder as Will Cathcart steps back
Liv McMahon Technology reporter WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart has announced that he is leaving his role. Cathcart has overseen Meta's popular messaging platform for nearly seven years - and scaled its private chat functions to more than three billion…
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