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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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Top News In Payments: Mastercard CEO Pushes Back Against National Payments System; FCA Tells Credit Cards To Ease Up On Non-Payers

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In today’s top payments news, Mastercard’s CEO speaks out against a national payments system, the FCA tells credit card companies to be reasonable with customers in debt and the People’s Bank of China is prepared to inject $173 billion into the country to stabilize the economic damage wreaked by the coronavirus.

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Amazon Gives Biometric Payments A Hand — In The Store

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The system doesn’t require a “hard touch” — consumers do not have to lay their hand down on the scanner — instead, the consumer waves a hand over the device which then uses a combination of computer vision and depth geometry to identify the customer and connect to their card on file. The first, more minor issue, was consumer habit.

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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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Bain Capital Technology’s Bet On hey And Japan’s Digital Payments Shift

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The country was home to one of the world’s first mobile commerce innovations with the DotCoMo mobile wallet all the way back in 2004. Until recently, retailers had to deal with an incredibly complicated legacy payments network system that was hard to break into. “It You need to have multiple different networks.

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

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have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. So, what does this all have to do with retail? Here’s a question: Does the U.S. Here’s an answer. We have both.

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Avoiding The Reputational Risk Of Failure

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Innovation in payments is easier said than done. It’s one thing to come up with a new solution or idea, but putting innovation into practice requires striking a balance that is not always easy to achieve. PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve done?