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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

IBM’s management team described its blockchain developer toolkit as another way to make it easier for innovators to “stand up” blockchain networks. Investors have remained skeptical that the marketplace business model touted in 2006 is sustainable. A month later, a new management team was put in place to rebuild the business.

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Xero Partners with Expensify for In-House Expense Management

Fintech Labs Insights

Xero’s decision to use Expensify’s software for in-house receipt and expense management is the latest product of the strategic partnership the two fintechs announced last year. CPA.com, the business wing of global leading accounting body, AICPA, has named Expensify its preferred partner for receipt and expense management.

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Decoupled Debit — Again?

PYMNTS

Capital One made the headlines then – a genius move, many called it at that time, for an issuer that lacked demand in deposit accounts and had no other way to provide a debit-like offering that would make their brand sticky to consumers. A payment method that has managed to capture nearly a quarter of sales over a decade hasn’t done badly.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

An explosion of new consumer finance brands is transforming how people save, spend, and manage their money. A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. The secrets of user growth. To build a successful personal finance management tool, it’s important to understand the dynamics of user acquisition and growth.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

The Pivot : We came up with a fresh take on the plethora of AR-style apps that create visual effects based on face detection and tracking… [Poor user experience] had a big impact on our retention metrics. Three notable excerpts: First Attempts : Blin.gy We needed 40% day-one returns and were closer to 25%. The clock kept ticking.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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Why Peer-to-Peer models struggle against oligopoly

Lex Sokolin

Initially, the naive reaction of the labels was to build digital rights management into music players, and song files, and any teenager onto whom they could tattoo the letter of the law. The media industry has been able to deploy a business model that uses the Internet to deliver a better user experience when bundled with the law.

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