Last week, I wrote about two types of fintech strategies.  Diversified fintech is the trend for any application serving a specific cause, specific purpose or specific community to sit on top of the bank of record and serve the client in a more personalized way.  Dashboard fintech is the need for consumers to have all […]

Newly installed Tesla charging stations in a Wawa parking lot. Photo by author.  Revisiting A Theory About Tesla In a post back in March (Tesla Crashes), we shared a theory our friends at SqueezeMetrics had presented last December, that S&P 500 inclusion would doom Tesla,Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA):  At the time, we asked: Is Tesla Doomed […]

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry is one of the most innovative areas in the cryptocurrency market, but it can't evade monetary regulations.  He was speaking at Yahoo Finance's All Markets Summit.  Gensler said it took regulators about three or five years to bring peer-to-peer systems within investor protections, and this […]

The U.S. Securities and Commission issued a report earlier this month suggesting brokers — via gamified user interfaces and mechanisms such as payment for order flow — lured investors to increase their trading which, in turn, resulted in higher revenues. Context: The SEC report comes after a wave of speculative commentaries on online forums like WallStreetBets earlier this year […]

Potential short squeeze plays have gained steam in 2021 with new retail traders looking for the next GameStop Corp (NYSE: GME) or AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC). A short squeeze can occur when a heavily shorted stock rises in value instead of falling. Short sellers could be looking to close out their position and […]

NOTE TO EDITORS: The Following is An Investment Opinion Issued by Spruce Point Capital Management Reveals A Pattern Of Material Mischaracterizations Of The Company's Organic Growth, Market Share, And Product Development Activities That Conflict With Decreasing Levels of Business Investment And Other Disclosures Questions The Prospects Of A Highly Anticipated New Product Based On Our […]