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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. We must make sure that even as people have unprecedented access to technology, we don’t allow a new digital divide to emerge.”.

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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

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“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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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha and Circle See The Future of Faster, Real Time Payments Rails

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All of these new instant payments systems around the world are being built on the ISO 2002 standard,” said Waterhouse. The real innovation cycle is where you layer on the program ability of money as a data type on the internet,” noted Allaire. But the faster payment systems are showing advantages, too, he said.

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Apple, Others Face Patent Claim From Firm Over Hands-Free, Voice Operated Devices

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Apple, Microsoft and Samsung are facing litigation from California-based SpeakWare that accuses the technology firms of patent infringement. The company claims the firms are using its 2002 patent for a hands-free, voice operated, remote-control transmitter, according to a report from CultofMac.com.

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IBM again a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integrated Risk Management

Insights on Business

IBM RegTech Innovations. Initially founded in 2002 to address the opportunity created by the Sarbanes Oxley Act, OpenPages’ client adoption was so strong over the coming years that by 2005, OpenPages was ranked 29 th on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Wheeler, Jie Zhang, Earl Perkins.

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Speed Dating: Invoice-to-Cash In The Digital Age

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The ubiquity of new technology has reset customer expectations, creating a new standard for speed of service and user experience. Thanks to Netflix, which was quick to adopt this new technology, customers expect an intuitive user interface and around-the-clock availability with zero tolerance for errors. contact-form-7].