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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

Fintech Labs Insights

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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Fraud Detection Sizzles, iPhone Shares Fizzle And Some Upbeat Economic News

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Online fraud falls — a LOT: Contrary to popular opinion — and perhaps contrary even to logic — the fraud fight has given a round to the good guys, even if the battle is far from over. Online fraud is down 34 percent, overall, at the end of Q1 2017 versus a year ago. percent annually through 2020, to top $8.1 trillion that year.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. High-tech employment fell from 12.1

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

Through trial and error, the company has set up key financial pillars across payments, cash deposits, and lending. Today, Amazon Pay has evolved to include a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants. Table of Contents: Amazon’s product strategy. Closing thoughts.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

We used CB Insights data gathered via our machine learning technology (dubbed The Cruncher ) and from thousands of submissions we received from VC partners and firms via The Editor. Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc. 2018 VC Report: AI FUNDING LEPT 29% IN US.

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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Jan 2021 update)

Fintech Labs Insights

But given it’s position as powering alternative energy lending at the POS, it seemed to be more the former. Ant Technology. Plaid Technologies. Online Digital Banks for Small Businesses. The startups is expecting to go public in early 2021 via a SPAC with an estimated market cap of $1.3B. Full Fintech Unicorn List.

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Data Dive, Farewells Edition: Apple, Chase, SoFi, Uber

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iTunes dominated after its 2001 release by putting two things in one place that had never existed before: a digital MP3 player that actually worked, properly paired with a store that made accessing music for a small fee much easier than trying to pirate it. The shuttering comes as JPMorgan has spent heavily on technology, with $11.5

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