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Mastercard, Rockefeller Foundation Launch Online Data Platform For Non-Profits

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They intend to build on the legacy of the original DATA.org website—launched in 2002. The philanthropy organizations also revealed today a $10 million “impact challenge” to crowdsource data science initiatives and solutions for organizations in the non-profit, civic, and government space.

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

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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. The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below).

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

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Innovators with better tech will appear and — literally overnight — snatch your customers out of your calcified incumbent arms and build scale, they say. Especially if any of those innovations touched the physical world. These innovations would usher in digital’s 2.0 Not to mention the time it would take to do it. Digital’s 2.0

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Former Worldbank CEO On ClearBank’s New Core Banking Infrastructure And Driving FinTech Innovation

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In 1997, he founded Worldpay, an online payments processor based in the U.K. that he sold to RBS in 2002. that resulted in the reduction in the number of clearing banks to four, the incredible rise in FinTech innovation in the U.K. FinTech innovators to access infrastructure that was as innovative as their ideas.

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The Connected Economy: It’s About Time

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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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How To Drive Success In A Digital 3.0 World

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In 1979, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky developed the Prospect Theory , one of the foundations of behavioral economics for which they would win the Nobel Prize in 2002. Back in March, the consumers who were already living their lives in a digital-mostly world simply shifted more of their activities online.

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IdentityMind Global Appoints Business-Tech Vet To Board

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. “IdentityMind Global has a unique approach to bringing integrity back to digital marketplaces and the online lending environment through the use of trusted digital identities” Zander said in a company news release. Before that, he served as president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems until June 2002.

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