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

Fintech Labs Insights

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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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

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That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. E-Bay acquired online ticket exchange, StubHub, in 2007. Speaking of online retailers, eBay went all out to court them.

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EMV migration FAQs

Banking 2020

Named after the three organisations that developed the specifications – Europay, MasterCard and Visa – EMV is the global benchmark for credit and debit cards that incorporate chip technology. EMV cards have embedded microprocessors that make them much more secure than traditional magnetic stripe cards.

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

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It’s the playbook on using technology and a new business model to turn something that consumers didn’t really want to do into something they no longer had to do , while getting the same — or an even better — result. The sequel, “ Meet The Fockers ,” released in December of 2004, was among the top-grossing films of 2005.

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Could Grubhub Become The Amazon Of Restaurants?

PYMNTS

Remember, before Grubhub bought LevelUp, Chase put a few tens of millions into them as the technology partner that would ignite Chase Pay acceptance at QSRs. LevelUp is front and center on the Chase site as its partner for online ordering using Chase Pay and Chase Commerce Solutions (aka Chase Paymentech). Source: [link].

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Will we see a cashless Britain by 2043?

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That uncertainty hasn’t stopped an online casino in the UK from putting a specific date on when cash could become extinct in Britain. The research was based on figures showing a decline in cash use in the UK between 2004 and 2014, from 71 percent to 53 percent of transactions. The decline of cash. billion the previous year.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

Today, Amazon Pay has evolved to include a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants. Traction/Metrics: Today’s iteration is Amazon Pay, a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants and shoppers.

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