Former Barclays chairman Makram Azar, CEO of Golden Falcon Acquisition, weighs in on the SPAC market boom during the COVID-19 pandemic and the outlook for fintech companies in 2021 in this six-minute video interview with Yahoo! Finance. View clip.
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