Financials: 2 Fintech IPOs to Watch
Industry Focus
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🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Personal lending technology company Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST) went public a month ago and it's stock has nearly doubled since. In this week's Industry Focus: Financials, Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP, and host Jason Moser discuss what Upstart does and why investors are so excited. Then, the pair take a closer look at fintech startup SoFi, which is getting set to go public via a SPAC merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings V (NYSE: IPOE). And last but not least, we discuss the recent correction in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and why Matt and Jason aren't likely to buy bitcoin anytime soon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seidful. I'm |
| 0:14.7 | Dylan Lewis. And today we're talking financials. Today we're talking |
| 0:18.2 | consumer goods. |
| 0:19.2 | Wild-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-Bil. and today we're talking tech. |
| 0:24.0 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:27.0 | It's Monday January 11th. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm your host Jason Moser and on this week's financial show |
| 0:32.0 | we're going to dig a little bit more into a |
| 0:33.7 | brand new IPO out there in Up Start Holdings. We've got another company |
| 0:39.0 | looking to IPO here very soon in sofai. We're going to take a look at what's in store for banks here as |
| 0:45.9 | earnings are set to begin on Friday and a little bit more joining me this week. |
| 0:50.4 | It's my man certified financial planner Matt |
| 0:53.3 | Frankle Matt has everything going pretty good as you can see by the |
| 0:56.5 | background it's another day in paradise yeah it seems that way every |
| 1:01.6 | week for you you've got it figured. You've got it figured out. |
| 1:03.5 | You've got it figured out. |
| 1:04.8 | There's nothing wrong with that at all. |
| 1:07.7 | Matt, as I said in the intro there, |
| 1:10.7 | we're gonna talk a little bit about a brand new IPO and then a company that's talking about getting ready to IPO. |
| 1:17.5 | These are two very similar businesses. So I'm going to be interested to get your take on them both. |
| 1:23.0 | Let's go ahead and start though with Up Start. |
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