Updated at 4:10 pm ET to reflect the stock’s day-end closing price. Digital bank Chime went public on the Nasdaq stock exchange today, and its stock rose 37% to $37 per share, bringing its valuation to $16 billion when factoring in the total number of outstanding shares reported by FactSet. (In the first few minutes of trading, Chime’s price hit a peak of $44.94 and then hovered between $35 and $40 for most of the day.) The company raised $684 million in the initial public offering (IPO). The IPO pop follows two other successful public debuts over the past month,…

In 1816, a motley crew of great writers took a trip to Lac Léman—aka Lake Geneva. Lord Byron, young doctor John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his future wife Mary, accompanied by a peacock, a monkey and a dog, all set up base in the lakeside Villa Diodati, just outside Geneva. While the trip was far from relaxing—arguments, alcohol, laudanum, ghost stories and a volcanic ash cloud—it birthed some great work. Shelley wrote Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni. Byron produced the third canto of Childe Harold. And Mary, after an evening…