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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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simPRO Taps Square To Power Field Service Payments

PYMNTS

“Processing payments and managing transactions is an important part of the field service workflow,” Jonathan Eastgate, simPRO chief technology officer, said in the release. “By Founded in 2002, simPRO secured $31 million in growth capital in 2016 as part of an aggressive product innovation and expansion strategy.

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The Connected Economy: It’s About Time

PYMNTS

One of the most important innovations in history is the pendulum clock, which was invented in 1636 by Christiaan Huygens , a Dutch scientist and founder of the field of mathematical physics. Enabling people to use their scarce time more efficiently has been at the core of many disruptive innovations throughout history.

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Yahoo! Is! For! Sale!: Why Banks Should Care

Celent Banking

responded to Google’s innovation quite awkwardly, first partnering with Google, then walking away from the partnership in 2004 as it sought to exploit the technology of acquired businesses such as Inktomi (2002) and AltaVista (2003). It’s very simple: innovation is a game that is played for a full 9 innings.

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Apple’s Long Strange Trip to A $2T Valuation

PYMNTS

trillion market capitalization — almost double where it was just two years ago. For all of Apple’s brilliant innovations over the past 25 years, the company has also managed to enjoy some very good timing. Apple was also a major beneficiary of the advance of mobile networking technology between the years 2000 and 1010.

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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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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014. Price: $7.9B. Price: $2.6B.

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