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Fintech Labs Insights
APRIL 12, 2024
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. The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below).
PYMNTS
MARCH 12, 2018
When Amazon launched its Prime service in 2005, its visionary chief executive had big plans to shake up eCommerce retail. Amazon Prime takes the effort out of ordering: no minimum purchase and no consolidating orders,” Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, said in a letter posted on the company’s website in 2005. a month — instead of $12.99
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PYMNTS
JUNE 3, 2019
It’s a world in which new retail models and new places to shop have emerged to satisfy that need, blending the online and offline worlds in ways that benefit the digital and marginalize the physical – at least as it operates today. And stores with a physical presence that “went online” carried different inventory – and not much of it.
PYMNTS
APRIL 29, 2019
Plastic cards and the card rails are reliable and certain, at the physical store as well as online. Speaking of online, uncertainty over shopping online is what gave birth to PayPal in 1998. Then, buying and selling online was a sea of uncertainty. Consumers stick to what they know will deliver a predictable outcome.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 29, 2016
It’s been a massive undertaking for DSW, which began life in 1969 as a four-day-a-week warehouse that sold shoes at discount prices, incorporated in 1991, saw its IPO in 2005 and now operates 480 retail stores. Oh, and at the same time, compete with Amazon.com for online market share. No one ever said the retail business is easy.”.
CB Insights
OCTOBER 29, 2018
The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. eBay and Skype. Date : September 2005. Price: $7.9B.
PYMNTS
JULY 11, 2016
In 2003, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that American consumers spent roughly 48 minutes a day shopping offline and online. In 2003, the majority of the online shopping was done at the desktop at the office when the boss wasn’t looking, and that experience included laboriously typing in card credentials at every site.
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