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Your holy shutdown links for April 23, 2020:

  • Chibra
  • Modelling money
  • The other halving
  • Farewell OneEleven
  • Je me souviens
  • Crowdcapital
  • Canadian innovation
  • Netscapin’
  • For queen and country and more shutdown resources
  • And it’s time to get your headphones out

 

News and Stories

 

Chibra: China continues to move forward with its digital currency ambitions. An image of the early rendition is in the wild. Are they going to beat an updated Libra to the punch? 

 

Modelling money: OakNorth has come up with some new modelling to help it explore a vast array of data around commercial loans. Given the timing of this release, perhaps their pyramid should have appeared to be on fire. 

 

The other halving: No, I’m not talking about Bitcoin’s March 12 margin clerk swan dive, but the scheduled reward reduction currently looking like it’s happening May 10. Summing up current analysis goes something like this: it will go up, it will go down, or it might stay the same but nobody knows. Thanks bro.  

 

OneEleven shutters:  non-profit turned for profit incubator took on one risk too many and made the very difficult decision to cease operations permanently this week.

 

Je me souviens: Hats off to a Quebec gamer for crushing a Kickstarter campaign. The company, Sabotage snags $1,628,126 CAD to develop their new game.

 

Shutdown Resources and Perspectives

 

Resilient Crowd:  As VCs undergo key stress tests, community capital continues to prove its stickiness in tough times.  Crowdfunding is a true enabler of diversifying participation among investors and companies.

 

Consumer misbehaviour: McKinsey takes a look across the globe to get a sense of where consumers are at. It’s a mixed bag.

 

Planting seeds: Remitr has put together a resource to bring together SMBs, entrepreneurs and founders. 

 

Canadian innovation: Shopify is stepping up by expanding and making adjustments to their Shopify Capital lending program. This is how it’s done. 


Stakeholders: With things in flux, companies with good stakeholder management appear to have an edge challenging the age old idea of putting shareholders numero uno.

 

Netscapin’: The must read of the week. Andreesen calling for a renaissance in building at home. 

 

Fintech to the rescue: Lendio is getting it done in terms of processing applications, all they need is the $5.5 Billion in cash from Uncle Sam.  

 

For queen and country: Britain steps up to provide much needed funding to their current innovators and their future business builders.

 

Fintech Fridays Podcast EP39:  Getting Exponential with James Wallace

 

Get your headphones out: Yours truly has an extensive discussion with James Wallace, co-founder and CEO of Exponential. We talk digitization, financial inclusion and what accreditation really means. Fintech Fridays EP39: The Power of Digitization and How to Get Exponential

  

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