What Is Investing?

What Is Investing? Investing is a way to increase the amount of money you have by putting it into financial products. These include bank accounts, money market accounts, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, precious metals and property. Anything that potentially increases in value can be an investment.

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Signs of Life but No Renaissance for Payments SPACs
Signs of Life but No Renaissance for Payments SPACs
August 05, 2022  |  SPAC

In payments, the rebound in SPAC listings — if we can call it that — will likely be a short one. We wonder: Is the...

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FinTech IPO Index Surges 8.8% as Earnings Start to Roll In
FinTech IPO Index Surges 8.8% as Earnings Start to Roll In
August 04, 2022  |  IPO

Earnings are rolling in, and for the FinTech IPO group, a relief rally may be in the works. To that end, the FinTech IPO Index...

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El Salvador Weekly: Bond Buyback Hopes to Stem Bitcoin-Related Default Fears
El Salvador Weekly: Bond Buyback Hopes to Stem Bitcoin-Related Default Fears
July 29, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

El Salvador will buy back $1.6 billion worth of its sovereign bond, hoping to pull its highly discounted debt out of deep junk territory and...

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Female Entrepreneurs Poised for Boost From New Tech, Regulation, Interest in ESG
Female Entrepreneurs Poised for Boost From New Tech, Regulation, Interest in ESG
July 29, 2022  |  Startups

Female-led companies made meaningful gains in 2021, but the work of using digital technology to level the playing field for women entrepreneurs is just starting...

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SEC Panel Weighs Small Business Investor Liquidity
SEC Panel Weighs Small Business Investor Liquidity
July 27, 2022  |  SMBs

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee will be looking into liquidity challenges for investors of newer businesses, a press...

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Genesis Global Raises $20M in Additional Funding to Drive IT Innovation
Genesis Global Raises $20M in Additional Funding to Drive IT Innovation
July 27, 2022  |  Investments

Low-code application development platform Genesis Global raised $20 million from the Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Citi and follows a $200 million Series C...

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The Week Ahead: Earnings Will Spotlight Big Tech’s Payments Ambitions
The Week Ahead: Earnings Will Spotlight Big Tech’s Payments Ambitions
July 25, 2022  |  Earnings

The banks came first — weighing in on the state of the consumer, taking measures of credit and debit spending. And while things seem pretty...

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El Salvador Weekly: Morgan Stanley Says Buy El Salvador Bonds (at 28 Cents on the Dollar)
El Salvador Weekly: Morgan Stanley Says Buy El Salvador Bonds (at 28 Cents on the...
July 23, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

For months now, everybody’s been screaming that El Salvador’s bitcoin-as-currency experiment will bring the country’s economy down in ruins. Now Morgan Stanley has called time...

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Crypto Lending Crisis Spreads to Asia as Thailand’s Zipmex Exchange Halts Withdrawals
Crypto Lending Crisis Spreads to Asia as Thailand’s Zipmex Exchange Halts Withdrawals
July 21, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

The latest round of insolvencies in the crypto lending crisis has extended to Southeast Asia, where cryptocurrency exchange Zipmex froze withdrawals and Singapore-based lender Vauld...

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