Tag: FinTech

2024-11-19

Morgan Stanley upgrades fintech stock, sees almost 30% upside from here

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Accelerating earnings growth should drive shares of Futu Holdings higher, according to Morgan Stanley. The investment bank upgraded the fintech stock to overweight from equal weight and raised its price target by $45 to $115. That reflects around 29% upside from Friday’s close. “It’s still early-stage, but the accelerating franchise expansion in Singapore this year gives us more confidence…

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2024-10-19

Trump crypto project allows ex-president’s family to make 75% of revenue

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Donald Trump’s crypto project, World Liberty Financial, published a 13-page document Thursday that described its mission and how tokens can be allocated, and that indicated that the Republican presidential nominee and his family could take home 75% of net revenue. In what it calls the “World Liberty Gold Paper,” World Liberty Financial, or WLF, said the Trump family will…

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2024-09-25

Bankman-Fried accomplice Caroline Ellison sentenced in FTX fraud

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Caroline Ellison, the star witness in the prosecution of her former boyfriend, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, was sentenced Tuesday in New York federal court to two years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion for her role in the massive fraud and conspiracy that doomed the cryptocurrency exchange once valued at $32 billion. The prison term was significantly stiffer…

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2024-09-18

New details, including who can buy in

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More than two hours into Republican former President Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial launch event on X Monday night, the team behind the Trump family’s new crypto project finally unveiled a key detail: Who can buy the forthcoming tokens it plans to release, and how shares of the project will be allotted. For over a month, the former president and his…

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2024-09-13

FTX exec Ryan Salame threatened with sanctions for lying

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Former FTX executive Ryan Salame outside of U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Sept. 12, 2024 MacKenzie Sigalos | CNBC A furious federal judge on Thursday threatened to slap unspecified sanctions on former FTX executive Ryan Salame for lying to him last year when he pleaded guilty to campaign finance and money transmitting crimes. Salame at a hearing Thursday in U.S….

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