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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Bank Crackdown Has Money Managers Eyeing Corporate Finance
Bank Crackdown Has Money Managers Eyeing Corporate Finance
August 06, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Australian money managers are finding an opportunity in enterprise and small business lending as regulators crack down on the country’s traditional banking industry. Reports in...

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Flywire Pulls B2B Payments Back Into The Investor Spotlight
Flywire Pulls B2B Payments Back Into The Investor Spotlight
July 27, 2018  |  B2B Payments

The biggest investment news of the week came on Thursday (July 26), when cross-border B2B payments company Flywire announced an impressive $100 million funding round....

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Paidy Tries To Simplify Mobile Payments — And Please Merchants While Doing So
Paidy Tries To Simplify Mobile Payments — And Please Merchants While Doing So
July 26, 2018  |  Digital Payments

A consumer can own multiple credit cards and live in a highly technological society and still want to pay via a method that can come...

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The Rippling Debate Over “Security” Whipsaws XRP Token
The Rippling Debate Over “Security” Whipsaws XRP Token
July 24, 2018  |  Cryptocurrency

Is Ripple – specifically the XRP token – the platypus of the crypto world? Turns out the debate over whether it is or isn’t a...

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Today In Data: The Many Roads To Making Consumers Feel Secure
Today In Data: The Many Roads To Making Consumers Feel Secure
July 23, 2018  |  Today In Data

Security is a complicated and thorny topic in payments and commerce, because it means different things to different consumers. The most obvious threat is the...

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Easy Come, Easy ICO Go? For Investors, Easy Come … For Now
Easy Come, Easy ICO Go? For Investors, Easy Come … For Now
July 20, 2018  |  Investments

Flameouts. Scams. Investors who tread among ICOs are taking their shots in the Wild West. Only a minority of ICOs make it into their fifth month. But...

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Amid Positive Developments, Bitcoin Rebounds
Amid Positive Developments, Bitcoin Rebounds
July 18, 2018  |  Cryptocurrency

In the cryptocurrency market, some weeks are better than others. And this week, so far, is shaping up to be a strong time for bitcoin...

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MoviePass Parent Co. Shares Sink 20 Percent
MoviePass Parent Co. Shares Sink 20 Percent
July 17, 2018  |  Retail

Even as Helios and Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth claims that MoviePass will be making $600 million by the end of 2018, shares of the parent...

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Why Microlending Is Branching Out In 2018
Why Microlending Is Branching Out In 2018
July 10, 2018  |  Alternative Finances

On the whole, it’s been a good year for startups in Africa, according to recent reporting in Quartz. Coming up on the half mark in...

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