Venture capital firms set aside $1 billion for women-led startups. Here’s how it’s going

Electoral College to meet Monday to Formally Select Joe Biden, as Trump’s Efforts to Overthrow vote Matches the”end of the Street”

Members of the Electoral College meet on Monday to formally select Joe Biden, a second a few Republican lawmakers have targeted since the conclusion of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the outcomes as much as they are concerned. The constitutionally mandated process throughout the 50 states and the District of Columbia generally moves with […]

The cashless economy: How fintech is approaching the future of finance

Subscribe to The Ledger for expert weekly analysis on fintech’s big stories, delivered free to your inbox. Cashless payments were on the rise before the pandemic hit, and now, eight months into its grip on the U.S., their use is accelerating even faster. This was the topic of conversation at Fortune’s latest Brainstorm Finance panel […]

The COVID recession may kill more Americans than COVID-19 does

The economic effects of COVID-19 could prove deadlier than the disease itself.  So says just-released research, which concludes that the total lives lost to the virus in the U.S.  may “far exceed those immediately related to the acute COVID-19 critical illness…. [T]he recession caused by the pandemic can jeopardize population health for the next two decades.” The […]