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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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Retail Bankruptcies Fuel The Overstored Debate

PYMNTS

The issue was raised by Horan Capital analyst David Templeton in his Monday (Feb. percent pace, which is about average going back to the beginning of 2002. Faster growth in retail sales is happening online, to the tune of 8.4 According to Mastercard, online shopping over the 2019 holiday season increased 18.8

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Why Digital’s 3.0 Shift May Take Longer Than We Think

PYMNTS

There is an out-and-out frenzy to capitalize on the pandemic-fueled digital shift that gave consumers few options for accessing products and services over the last twelve weeks. Fulfilling those digital purchases meant figuring out how to accept payments online and managing the logistics of getting products delivered.

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The Connected Economy: It’s About Time

PYMNTS

Over the last decade, innovators have capitalized on the consumers’ growing desire to save time, using mobile devices and apps to create any number of ways to do that. They don’t have to sit at home and write checks to pay the bills — they can use online or mobile bill pay to get the job done. movies they saw in 2002.

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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

PYMNTS

That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. E-Bay acquired online ticket exchange, StubHub, in 2007.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

For the third consecutive year, we worked with The New York Times to identify and rank the top 100 venture capital professionals from around the globe. Below are the detailed profiles of the Top 20 Venture Capital Partners. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. Current Firm: First Round Capital (Founding Partner).

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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

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. To you, manage your interest rate risk.

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