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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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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. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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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

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. To you, manage your interest rate risk. By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. Who would’ve thought lending $1 million to a San Francisco cab driver to buy a house at 100% loan to value would go bad?

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc. After 4 years with the company, Brian joined Google as a Software Engineer and inevitably rose to become an Engineering Manager. Jeff began his post-graduate career as a Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group.

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The 134 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Jan 2021 update)

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The first, Divvy, is a corporate credit card and expense management firm in the same category with Brex, Expensify, and others. But given it’s position as powering alternative energy lending at the POS, it seemed to be more the former. It is the 7th fintech unicorn based in India, and the 4th most valuable. Full Fintech Unicorn List.

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Decision Platform Know-How Makes Winning Customers Personal

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But with the mass adoption of digital channels, it’s now estimated nearly two-thirds (65%) of online customers will try an instant finance option within the next 12 months. Agility always poses challenges when it comes to delivering value, managing and measuring success. It’s been around in one form or another for more than 60 years.

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

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Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, in losses, declare bankruptcy at Westinghouse, and eventually to sell the Westinghouse unit to Brookfield Asset Management. Zynga and OMGPOP. Price: $210M.

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