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FinTech Cloud Technology Fuels Banking Innovation

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As cloud technologies emerge to help financial institutions (FIs) drive digital innovation, Finastra has introduced its Fusion Payments To Go offering for small and medium-sized banks. Alacriti, a FinTech that was started in 2003, works with banks and other customers on making the migration to digital payments.

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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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Payroc Combines With NXGEN, Payscape, BluePay Canada To Serve 46 Countries

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The operation will carry an enhanced, innovative Payroc brand, offering full-service global merchant acquirer services and payments processing in 46 countries. Private equity firm Parthenon Capital sponsored the merger. “We NXGEN and Payscape merged in May in a deal also backed by Parthenon Capital.

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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

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trillion market capitalization — almost double where it was just two years ago. Adding in Apple iTunes in 2003 cemented the iPod’s place as the standard MP3 player, which drew a host of new users into the Apple ecosystem during the early 2000s. Apple stock is trading at about $446 as of Tuesday (Aug. And the iPod kept advancing.

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COVID-19 And The Medical Commerce Boom

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This is a bloodbath, but it’s not when you panic,” the president and founder of Blue Line Capital and Blue Line Futures told CNBC’s Trading Nation. What’s next remains a lot of unknowns — but the innovations that emerge might offer an interesting picture of the future beyond COVID-19 and its immediate effects.

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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. Date: March 20, 2003. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014.

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