Monthly Archives: November 2022

Why Robinhood and Coinbase gained ground after reporting earnings

You’d be forgiven for expecting public fintech companies that facilitate consumer trading to be under pressure this week. And yet, after reporting earnings, the share prices of two pandemic-era highfliers gained ground. Coinbase and Robinhood up? In this economy? Yes. Of the out-of-fashion tech sectors, consumer trading has to be among the most out of…

Shop the best tech deals from early Black Friday sales, including 4K TVs and smart home speakers

UPDATE: Nov. 4, 2022, 12:00 p.m. EDT This story has been updated to include the best of the best early Black Friday deals for the 2022 shopping season. It’s Black Friday season, which means it’s the perfect time to finally make those big tech purchases. Technically, the actual shopping holiday doesn’t fall until Nov. 25,…

Microsoft launches passwordless authentication for Azure AD on iOS and Android

Microsoft is looking to better protect hybrid workers connecting to its Azure Active Directory (AD) service via iOS or Android endpoints from phishing and password-stealing attacks.  The company has introduced a new authentication method for the enterprise identity service that it says is a paswordless, certificate-based authentication (CBA) one, enabled through the YubiKey hardware security…

Deloitte and Amazon Web Services join forces on cloud-based digital banking services

The news: Deloitte and Amazon Web Services (AWS) teamed up to provide cloud-based digital banking services, per a press release. Cloud-based BaaS: The multiyear partnership will yield a banking as a service (BaaS) platform that helps organizations offer customized digital banking services. Read the original article on Business Insider Read More

A no-closing-cost refinance saves you money on your mortgage upfront, but you could pay more in the long run

Insider’s experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here’s how). In some cases, we receive a commission from our our partners, however, our opinions are our own. Terms apply to offers listed on this page. A no-closing-cost refinance requires zero closing costs upfront, but you’ll pay the…

The Fed is showing it’s willing to overtighten after being too lax – and it makes no sense with the economy operating in a good place, BlackRock’s investment chief says

Steve Marcus/Reuters The Fed is showing it’s willing to overtighten the economy, and it makes no sense, BlackRock’s Rick Rieder said. He pointed to historic drops in housing activity as well as steady declines in the labor market. “I don’t think we’ve got to keep veering the boat from one side to the other side,”…