Hi there, 

The Future of Fintech is next week (November 16-18). We’ve got some good stuff lined up, such as: 

• 60+ fireside chats with big names like the Commissioner of the SEC, the CEO of Mercado Pago, the COO of Robinhood, and the CEO of US Consumer Banking at Citigroup

• 1,500+ executives from major financial institutions, disruptive startups, and the VC community

• 360 hours of networking, as we’ve opened up our networking platform for the full week of the event (560+ 1:1 meetings have already been scheduled)

• 1 live “Deal or Bust” extravaganza where we’ll get the chance to watch the founder of a $6M run rate fintech co try to make a deal. Former Goldman CFO Marty Chavez and Lazard managing director Dimitar Karaivanov will be on hand to offer expert advice. 

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Banking and cybercrime: ruh roh

The banking industry faces the highest average cybercrime cost of any industry. The largest banks like JPMorgan and Bank of America spend $700M+ annually to protect against cyber attacks.

Private and public companies alike are developing solutions to combat outsider and insider threats, regulatory and reputational risks, software vulnerabilities, and online fraud.

If you’re a client, dive into our market map report to discover 150 companies protecting banks’ expanding attack surface.

DIY innovation
 

Finance is primed for disruption, and corporates are turning to in-house labs to prepare themselves.

From Visa to PayPal, we cover a list of 40 corporate innovation labs in finance here.

A timeless debate
 

What should private company boards do when founders ask for more equity?

Read more about the question of founder equity in this guest post from Aon. 

Big things ahead

2021 may be the year of the challenger bank. 
 

CB Insights fintech analyst Conor Witt will be walking through challenger banking’s obstacles and opportunities heading into next year, as well as the implications for incumbent banks in our upcoming webinar.

Join us for an overview of:

• What it will take for challenger banks to develop a meaningful share of the banking market
• How challenger banks are expanding beyond the debit card to diversify revenue streams and own more of the digital wallet
• How incumbent banks are responding to the pressure from challenger banks
• A walkthrough of how this information was generated, using data from the CB Insights platform

Register for the webinar here. 

Build me up buttercup
 

Construction tech startups are seeing record financing from corporations, with deals hitting a record quarterly high in Q3’20. 

Take a look at where corporates are investing in construction tech in this client-only brief. 

Business Insider. Alex Nicoll (@alexonicoll) reports on corporate investments in construction tech using CB Insights research. 

Emerging Tech Brew. Hayden Field (@haydenfield) quotes CB Insights lead analyst Deepashri Varadharajan (@deepalearning) and cites CB Insights research in looking at healthcare AI.

Wall Street Journal. Liza Lin (@lizalinwsj), Phred Dvorak (@Phred_Dvorak), and Julie Steinberg (@JBSteins) cover China-based Full Truck Alliance’s upcoming $1.7B raise and reference CB Insights data.

P.S. Submissions are still open for our first-ever Blockchain 50, produced in collab with Blockdata. Apply to be considered for the list here.

P.P.S. We're looking for an SVP of business development. Check out the job spec here.

The Blurb
 

Nomadic no more. Digital nomads who moved to work in foreign countries amid the pandemic are facing visa issues, tax trouble, breakups, and more.

NYT

Polarized. Some tech companies are using AI to assess voter sentiment, with aims to improve polling accuracy.

WSJ

We’ll never let go. Weekly expeditions to the Titanic set to start in May will be the first to take guests in 15 years.

Bloomberg 

I spy. Researchers training giant language models on visual inputs as well as text could teach them to “see.” 

MIT Technology Review

Reely. Fish beat a Pokémon game after swimming for 3,195 hours in a tank equipped with motion tracking.

Polygon