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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

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But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. The sequel, “ Meet The Fockers ,” released in December of 2004, was among the top-grossing films of 2005. I Don’t Want To, But I Have To’. It is also pretty hilarious.

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Mobile Payments On Smartphones Soar In Japan

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“And with the Olympics pushed back to 2021, we can expect the Japanese government to continue to invest in mobile payment technology as part of its measures to keep the games safe,” Liu added. Still, Japan remains a heavily cash-based economy, Darren Abrahamson , managing director of Bain Capital Tech Opportunities, told PYMNTS.

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

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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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Community Banks Embrace Faster Payments’ Competitive Edge

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Yet, the broader perception of smaller financial institutions (FIs) in the industry is that these banks lack the resources that larger banks offer, as well as the agility of emerging FinTech firms, to promote product and service innovation to their SMB clients. has dropped from 8,000 in 2004 to about 5,400 in 2018.

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FinTech Startups Take Advantage Of Talent Pool In Dublin

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Dublin, the capital of Ireland, is a burgeoning hub for startups in the technology sector. The city is home to European offices for multinational technology companies, as well as banks and startups. In 2004, Google arrived and other firms such as Facebook and Twitter came on the scene.

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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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Sizzle/Fizzle: AI Soars, Toys R Us Sinks And Start-Ups Struggle

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Authentication Technologies: Bound to get a bump, and a big one, sustainable for quite a while. Look for a surge in signups for identity monitoring services, and also the technologies that – at the point of transaction – help prove you are who you say you are … and that it’s you doing the saying. Just sayin’.

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