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Alibaba’s Ant Financial IPO Rumored For Late 2017

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Ant Financial, the $60 billion online financial extension from Alibaba, says it’s putting growth first by expanding its number of users from the current 450 million, by adding merchants and more customers into the mix. Alibaba launched Alipay in 2004, and later peeled off on its on accord ten years later.

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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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Community Banks Embrace Faster Payments’ Competitive Edge

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has dropped from 8,000 in 2004 to about 5,400 in 2018. The Federal Reserve released a report last April, finding that community banks yield greater satisfaction with small business borrowers than any other kind of FI, even as satisfaction with online and marketplace lenders rises, too.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. To you, manage your interest rate risk. percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. To fight inflation, the Fed raised rates aggressively (familiar?).

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

In October of 2004, Josh founded First Round Capital where he serves as General Partner to this day. Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc. Jeff began his post-graduate career as a Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. BRIAN SINGERMAN.

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

CB Insights

Through trial and error, the company has set up key financial pillars across payments, cash deposits, and lending. Today, Amazon Pay has evolved to include a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants. Table of Contents: Amazon’s product strategy. Closing thoughts.

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Springboard to Excellence

Independent Banker

In early 2004, examiners visited her $253 million-asset bank, an experience that revealed a need—someone with a stronger compliance background. “I It teaches bankers how to develop a compliance program, meet lending compliance requirements, and comply with deposit and marketing regulations. Lending—consumer and commercial.