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HODL: What It Means and Why It’s Important in Cryptocurrency

CoinRemitter

2013 was possibly the most interesting year for the cryptocurrency market, especially for Bitcoin. Origins of HODL The term “HODL” originated back in 2013 in an online post on the Bitcointalk forum. Although this strategy is risky, active trading can provide great returns, especially during price volatility in the market.

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IRS Makes New Push For Coinbase Data

PYMNTS

The documents asked for all United States Coinbase customers who transferred convertible virtual currency (in this case, bitcoin, since the company did not trade ethereum at the time) from 2013 to 2015. In 2014, that number was just 893, and, in 2015, the number fell to 802. While the request was granted, a Coinbase customer, Jeffrey K.

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7 Fast-Growing Fintech Startups in Thailand

Fintech News

Ascend Money Founded in 2013, Ascend Money is a fintech startup in Thailand that is part of the Ascend Group, a digital technology business conglomerate providing digital financial, e-commerce, data and cloud services. Opn Founded in 2013, Opn is a provider of online payment solutions and digital transformation services. since 2021.

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Addressing Portfolio Risk in Economic Uncertainty: Part 2 (2022)

FICO

This blog illustrates how to use FICO Resilience Index in underwriting risk management strategies during both stressed and unstressed times to maximize its return on investment. As seen in Figure 1, in the unstressed economy of 2013-15, this would have aligned with a simple FICO® Score cut-off of 640 or higher.

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Lending Club’s Terrible Twos

PYMNTS

In one sense, from the point of view of 2013, Laplanche was right to be excited for where Lending Club was headed — it still had some very good times coming up. When all the shares were accounted for, Lending Club’s original IPO managed to pull in more than $1 billion — slightly beating expectations and making it the seventeenth-largest U.S.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

PYMNTS

LCA and Laplanche, along with former CFO Dolan, were also charged with improperly adjusting fund returns. Investors have returned to the platform in larger numbers, but loan volume and revenue have seen sluggish growth until very recently. The DOJ Finding. Those effects, however, were short-lived.

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Most Blockchain Startups Fail To Raise A 2nd Round Of Funding

CB Insights

Using CB Insights, we looked at a cohort of 99 blockchain companies that received an initial seed or angel funding in 2013 or 2014, and tracked them through today. Of the original companies: 30 companies have shut down. 27 received an equity follow-on round after the initial financing.