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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Originally launched in 2015, Qapital has raised $51M in funding to date and gained roughly 420,000 users, who have reportedly saved nearly $500M. Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Retirement.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: The Ant Financial IPO?

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As is well known by now, Ant Financial , the Chinese micro-lending Internet player, has raised a whopping $4.5 The funding is a striking portrait of demand by investors with dry powder to gain entry into a nascent, technology driven market. and a year ago, Ant had raised $2 billion from China’s National Social Security Fund.

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