by George Polzer | Jul 31, 2015 | B2C, Blockchain, Crowd Based/Social, Digital Transformation, News & Trends
The financial system will need to be a platform that federates existing players (such as banks) and new players (such as telecommunication companies… )
1) bitcoin-inspired distributed systems
2) open APIs (application programming interface) as a new way to consumer business services on the internet
3) crowd-sourced identity schemes
4) open source hardware and applications
How can the traditional industry players prepare for such changes?
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by George Polzer | Jul 29, 2015 | Benziga Categories, Crowd Based/Social, Research Tools
Quickly identify trends. Generate innovative trade ideas. And turn the brands you like into a portfolio you’ll love with LikeFolio.
LikeFolio takes the investable companies social media users are talking about, and shows these mentions on a stock chart — making the connection from Twitter to Wall Street.
We analyze all of English-speaking Twitter (~250,000,000
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by George Polzer | Jul 28, 2015 | Benziga Categories, Crowd Based/Social, P2P, Proprietary Data, VCs, StartUps... Acquisitions
The Most Accurate And Most Representative Earnings Forecasts
Estimize is an open financial estimates platform which facilitates the aggregation of fundamental estimates from independent, buy-side, and sell-side analysts, along with those of private investors and students. Estimize has over 5149 analysts’ contributors, resulting in coverage on over 900 stocks each quarter. – See more at:
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/estimize#sthash.Ri9AxQ8u.dpuf
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by George Polzer | Jul 23, 2015 | Blockchain, Crowd Based/Social, Financial Technologies, News & Trends
Digital Currency / #Bitcoin Related Technology Could Accelerate Trading & Transaction Settlement on #Wall Street
They added: “It is not bitcoin itself that has the potential for changing the institutional capital markets. The #blockchain, the technology that allows bitcoin to exist and be transferred safely without an intermediary, presents a much bigger opportunity for financial services firms.”
“Can Bitcoin and the blockchain be separated
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by George Polzer | Jul 23, 2015 | Analysis Tools, Crowd Based/Social, Investment Edge
As retail investors gain ‘#fintech’ access, jury remains out on whether reward outweighs risk
As #financial technology companies expand their trading services to retail investors, experts are unsettled over what the democratization of these technologies means for the average investor.
Financial technology firms, collectively known as “fintech,” are swiftly bridging the technology gap between retail traders and their institutional counterparts. They are developing
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