This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/architecting-the-future-of-financial-planning-karan-shahs-pioneering-cutting-edge-sap-epm-systems.
Karan Shah revolutionizes financial planning with SAP-powered EPM solutions, boosting speed, accuracy, and strategic decision-making globally.
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Karan Shah transforms global financial planning with innovative Enterprise Performance Management solutions. By modernizing legacy systems, automating complex calculations, and leveraging SAP technologies, he dramatically improves speed, accuracy, and scalability, enabling better decision-making, global operational efficiency, and long-term strategic value for enterprises.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/25-things-to-leave-behind-in-2025-for-investor-decks.
Here are 25 critical mistakes startups must avoid in investor presentations—from unrealistic projections to missing competitive analysis to buzzword overload.
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Venture capital rebounded in 2025, but the seed market is more selective than ever. After reviewing thousands of pitch decks, here are the top mistakes to avoid.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-invisible-line-item-why-pollution-is-missing-from-every-balance-sheet.
For centuries, pollution has been the missing line item of our accounting. First from ignorance. Then from choice. Now, from necessity. We must account for it!
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For centuries, pollution has been the missing line item. First from ignorance. Then from choice. Now from necessity—we must account for it. This isn't about blame. It's about balance. If pollution has created $Z trillion in costs, we need $Z trillion to fix it. And programmable money can provide this!

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/wall-streets-underrated-advantage-what-top-firms-get-right.
Why some investment firms retain more clients: clear communication, compliant materials, and transparent reporting that builds investor trust.
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Client retention in asset management isn’t just about performance—it’s about clarity. As regulatory pressure rises and investors demand transparency, firms that deliver clear, compliant, and customizable communications keep more clients. Anuj Maheshwari’s overhaul of investor materials shows how better reporting, clearer risk explanations, and tailored documents directly lift retention, shorten sales cycles, and strengthen trust.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/your-gen-z-loved-ones-are-stressed-about-money-an-ai-coach-might-actually-help.
Gen Z is overwhelmed by money stress. Here’s how new AI-first, emotionally aware fintech tools are reshaping financial support for a generation in crisis.
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Vera is an AI-driven financial coach that aims to go after that psychological layer. The shift it represents is worth paying attention to. Gen Z adults carry more education-related debt relative to income.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/building-a-rural-finance-ecosystem-for-the-philippines-part-1-the-asset-stack.
A new model for rural Philippine finance proposes indexing and tokenizing stored rice to create climate-resilient collateral for farmers and local banks.
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The Philippines faces the challenges of a fast growing youth population in a largely agrarian society, being constrained by continuous extreme weather events The need is to make rural fintech more efficient, responsive to the unique needs of its users, to provide baseline growth. This will lay the basis for true financial inclusion.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-day-the-house-entered-epistemic-hold-a-story-of-ternary-logic-congress-and-credible-evidence.
A satirical trip through Congress to explain Ternary Logic, Epistemic Hold, and a new evidentiary framework for economic systems and accountability.
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This story dramatizes what happens when the U.S. House of Representatives stumbles onto “Ternary Logic,” an evidentiary framework for economic systems built around a third state: Epistemic Hold. Through a satirical tour of Decision Logs, Immutable Ledgers, Hybrid Shield, Anchors, and “No Log = No Action,” it imagines a world where markets, CBDCs, ESG finance—and even lawmakers—are forced to act only on transparent, auditable evidence.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/pretty-charts-are-lying-to-you.
Many projects still treat market making as a way to create a clean picture rather than a functional market.
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Many projects still treat market making as a way to create a clean picture rather than a functional market. A pretty chart is incredibly easy to manufacture. Once trading picks up, superficial support disappears almost immediately. The spread widens, price movement becomes erratic, traders start to doubt the asset.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/avici-raises-$35-million-gives-back-90percent-of-capital-via-futarchy-governance.
Avici raises $3.5M and returns 90% of capital to its community using a futarchy governance model, signaling a new approach to crypto-fintech decision-making.
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Avici secured $3.5M in funding while returning roughly 90% of committed capital to its community through a futarchy governance model. The fintech-crypto startup aims to build unified internet banking tools—wallet, savings, spend card, credit scoring, and lending—while using market-driven governance to align incentives and build trust.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/jumper-exchange-announces-cross-rollup-routing-update-and-releases-2025-layer-2-outlook.
The release tightens liquidity sourcing and route selection across Arbitrum, OP Mainnet, Base, Starknet, zkSync Era, Linea, and additional networks.
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Jumper Exchange has announced an update to its cross-rollup routing engine. The release tightens liquidity sourcing and route selection across Arbitrum, OP Mainnet, Base, Starknet, zkSync Era, Linea, and additional networks.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/daniel-zakharov-ceo-of-buburuza-on-why-youll-monitor-money-instead-of-managing-it-soon.
Buburuza CEO Daniel Zakharov explains why emotional spending makes budgeting fail—and how AI will soon help you monitor money instead of managing it.
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Buburuza CEO Daniel Zakharov predicts that AI financial assistants will soon replace manual money management. Instead of stressing over budgets and bills, users will co-create financial strategies that AI executes and monitors—eliminating emotional spending, shame, and decision fatigue. The future of finance is collaborative, not controlling.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/crowdfunding-your-startup-is-making-a-big-comeback.
Crowdfunding is back. As VC chases AI, founders are raising from their communities and discovering belief is the most powerful thing in business.
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Venture capital has gone all-in on AI, leaving DTC, marketplace, and consumer-tech founders out in the cold. That vacuum has reawakened the crowdfunding ecosystem — not as a fallback, but as a first-choice power move. Founders like Scott Hansen of Maverick Brands are showing that raising from your community doesn’t just fund your company; it builds belief, ownership, and trust in a market that desperately needs it.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/vijaya-rama-raju-gottimukkala-advancing-global-financial-security-through-federated-learning.
Vijaya Rama Raju Gottimukkala’s research uses federated learning to enhance global fraud detection while preserving privacy, compliance, and trust.
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Researcher Vijaya Rama Raju Gottimukkala introduces a federated learning model that enables banks to detect fraud collaboratively without sharing sensitive data. His framework combines privacy-by-design, asynchronous training, and regulatory alignment—advancing global financial security through ethical, scalable AI systems built on trust and transparency.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/from-chaos-to-send-the-smart-way-to-build-decks-that-win.
Does building a deck ever feel like managing chaos? Too many people, too many comments, too little story. There’s a smarter way to do it.
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Does building a deck ever feel like managing chaos? Too many people, too many comments, too little story. There’s a smarter way to do it.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/understanding-the-vix-the-markets-barometer-of-fear-and-opportunity.
The VIX was created by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in 1993 and represents an expectation of volatility in the market.
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The VIX measures the market’s expected price movements over the next 30 days. It is determined by the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options. A high VIX of over 30 or 40, for example, signifies fear and uncertainty in the market.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-hidden-economics-of-reliability-balancing-uptime-cost-and-innovation-in-devops.
The tension between uptime, cost, and velocity has never been sharper.
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The tension between uptime, cost, and velocity has never been sharper.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/can-decentralized-finance-truly-fix-global-credit-inequality-or-will-new-forms-of-exclusion-emerge.

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In 2022, over 200 bank accounts in Canada were frozen without notice, leaving protesters unable to access their money. This event highlighted what many have felt for years: traditional finance isn't just slow or costly, it's a system with hidden gatekeepers who decide who can access money, credit and economic opportunities.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/all-the-growth-can-be-found-in-the-indian-bfsi-sector.
The Indian BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) sector has seen humongous growth over the last two decades.
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The Indian BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) sector has seen humongous growth over the last two decades. The Indian middle classes have taken to credit like never before, allowing banks to achieve double digit growth in terms of credit uptake. Fintech startups have played their part in the growth of the sector on account of their tie-ups with banks, helping the latter make their services vastly more accessible.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-wef-wants-to-put-a-market-price-on-nature.
WEF’s new blueprint, led by Larry Fink & Andre Hoffmann, aims to monetize nature with credits, swaps & asset schemes worth trillions.
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Larry Fink and Andre Hoffmann are the new co-chairs of the World Economic Forum. The WEF publishes a 50-page blueprint on how to monetize everything in nature. The target audiences for latest WEF insight report are “institutional investors’ and banks.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/your-trades-move-the-market-rethinking-equilibrium-when-every-order-has-an-impact.
This work models a market equilibrium where investor price impact amplifies the effect of transaction costs, providing a closed-form solution.
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This work models a market equilibrium where investor price impact amplifies the effect of transaction costs, providing a closed-form solution.