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126 | Fintech’s Secret Bank
Many of the most popular finance apps are little more than glitzy loan pushers with a voracious appetite for risk.
Enabling them is a tiny bank in New Jersey with overinflated ambitions.
By Antoine Gara, Jeffrey Kauflin and Nathan Vardi
FRONTRUNNER
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32 | Grand Slam
The Houston Astros are mired in controversy,
but owner Jim Crane is a new billionaire.
36 | World of Forbes
Around the globe with our 34 international
editions.
38 | The Luxe Life
Readers weigh in on our November cover:
Bernard Arnault, the $100 billion man.
CONTRARIAN
TECHNOLOGY
46 | Roku Redo
Anthony Wood became a billionaire with cheap
streaming gadgets. That business has never turned a
profit. Roku is now betting its future on a model as 20 32
old as TV: advertising.
By Angel Au -Yeung
INVESTING
50 | Connecting a Million Dots
EquBot is on a quixotic quest to prove that
computers can outsmart human stock pickers.
By William Baldwin
19 | FACT & COMMENT
Steve Forbes
International trade is good.
20 | THE FORBES 2019 ALL-STAR
EATERIES IN NEW YORK
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