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Mastercard Names New President Of Canadian Operations

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Mastercard announced on Thursday (May 30) the appointment of Sasha Krstic as president of the company’s Canadian operations. The executive started with Mastercard in 2004 and has served in multiple roles, including sales, customer management, services and product development. Krstic is a graduate of the University of Alberta.

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Mastercard Names New President For Canadian Operations

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Mastercard, the payments company, announced Thursday (May 30) the appointment of Sasha Krstic as president for the company’s Canadian operations. The executive started with Mastercard in 2004 and has served in multiple roles including sales, customer management, services, and product development.

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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. Between 2008 and 2019, the DVD rentals market dropped like a stone.

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Why Does The Path To Retail Innovation Go Through So Many Labs?

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Innovation is one of the keys to advancement — and that increasingly means opening tech hubs, incubators and other such operations. But not all innovation labs or tech hubs give rise to seamless tech progression. New Efforts. And when it comes to experimentation in general, investors often have limited patience. Lab Changes.

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When QSRs Think Really Outside The Box In The Innovation Race

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The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. The drive-thru window, for example, first met the market in 1947 when it was introduced to the world by Sheldon “Red” Chaney, operator of Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri.

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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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SWIFT: The Road To ISO 20022 Adoption

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Financial institutions have relied on their own IT systems, operations teams, the SWIFT messaging service and domestic payment schemes to acquire, construct, screen, relay and report customer payments. In 2004, financial institutions around the world had had enough.

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