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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

Strategic Horizon and Capital As mentioned, the problem that bank’s often run into when it comes to strategic planning is their time horizon is too short. The bank that will be around in the next 50 years will be one that develops the ability to build infrastructure now that allows for efficient innovation in the future.

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Investor Group, Including Amazon, Buys Disney’s $3.47B Stake In YES Network

PYMNTS

Additional equity investors include RedBird Capital, funds managed by Blackstone’s Tactical Opportunities business, and Mubadala Capital. We look forward to working with our strategic partners and our investors — RedBird Capital, Blackstone and Mubadala Capital — to expand the network in innovative and exciting ways.”.

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Green Dot CEO: 20 Years Of Innovating ‘Banking For The Masses’

PYMNTS

By 2001, sales were good enough that Streit was able to persuade CVS and Walgreens to get in on the action. He was able to manage the business until it turned a profit, raising very little outside capital. It’s even easy to convince oneself that the iterations one is pursuing are real innovations. What’s Next.

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FICO Named America's Best Mid-Sized Employer by Forbes Magazine

FICO

We’re very proud of our colleagues for the spirit of ownership and innovation that has allowed FICO to achieve this honor. Richard Deal Richard Deal leads FICO’s Human Resources function focused on attracting, engaging, developing and deploying talent through innovative human capital management strategies.

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

Fintech Labs Insights

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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PingPong To Enter Europe Via $113M Investment

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We are actively following the country’s Belt and Road Initiative to empower Chinese businesses through innovation in the cross-border ecosystem,” said Luo in a statement. Luxembourg had already passed a bill to legally issue “dematerialized securities” in April 2013 through an amendment to a 2001 securities law.

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Searching for the Priceline of Fintech after Lending Market Meltdown Week

Bank Innovation

You could have bought Priceline stock below $10 in 2001. For many years you had little to show for it. From then until 2008, you had some appreciation, but not much. Then the stock shot up above $1,000 (as of writing it is $1,261). Yes that is 100x return from Read More.

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