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Nordstrom Brings On Former Amazon Exec

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Chain Store Age reports that the luxury retail chain has named as its CTO, Kumar Srinivasan, previously of Amazon — where he served as vice president of Amazon Web Services from 2005–2008, then as general manager of Amazon Payments from 2008–2010.

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IBM again a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integrated Risk Management

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IBM RegTech Innovations. Initially founded in 2002 to address the opportunity created by the Sarbanes Oxley Act, OpenPages’ client adoption was so strong over the coming years that by 2005, OpenPages was ranked 29 th on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Wheeler, Jie Zhang, Earl Perkins.

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IBM Open Pages recognized as the pioneer in redefining GRC

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IBM RegTech Innovations. Initially founded in 2002 to address the opportunity created by the Sarbanes Oxley Act, OpenPages’ client adoption was so strong over the coming years that by 2005, OpenPages was ranked 29 th on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Wheeler, Jie Zhang, Earl Perkins.

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Decoupled Debit — Again?

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Analysts at the time called this product “an historic opportunity” to bolster the merchant’s “corroding bottom lines,” and innovators rushed to build new applications to help them seize it. Since 2005, sources claim there have been 4,500 data breaches , 3,455 of which have happened since 2013, the year of the Target breach.

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37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

CB Insights

One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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FinovateFall 2017 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

VERY Cool mobile, user experience. YUKKA Lab AG detects market sentiments and transforms them into innovative tools for the finance and communications industry. they also have an “early warning” function that might alert a user that a sector might have some change in news and you may need to make investment changes to address.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

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Series A into Facebook in 2005, taking a 15% stake in what was then called “Thefacebook.”. Index Ventures, which invested in King in 2005, cashed out shortly afterward, for a return of about $560M on their 8% stake. Within two years, it had 97 million active daily users. The firms led a $12.7M

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