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SoFi Technologies joins the meme-stock party after banking approval

SoFi’s ‘adulting’ was seen as a new kind  of sexy by Reddit users as the fintech cleared its final regulatory hurdle

SoFi Technologies joins the meme-stock party after banking approval
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Thornton McEnery is a markets and money writer at MarketWatch

We’re not saying that retail investors are getting a little stale with their choice of meme stocks, but we are saying that the hottest new thing is a fintech lending platform that wants to be a bank and is run by a former Goldman Sachs dealmaker.

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