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Decoupled Debit — Again?

PYMNTS

It’s the decoupled debit card. Capital One made the headlines then – a genius move, many called it at that time, for an issuer that lacked demand in deposit accounts and had no other way to provide a debit-like offering that would make their brand sticky to consumers. Merchants paid less when they accepted those cards.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

Investors have remained skeptical that the marketplace business model touted in 2006 is sustainable. LendingClub makes unsecured personal loans to consumers, mostly to consolidate and pay off credit card debt and more recently to refinance auto loans. Take Goldman Sachs and Marcus.

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Xero Partners with Expensify for In-House Expense Management

Fintech Labs Insights

Expensify’s solution will provide SmartScan OCR receipt scanning, next-day reimbursement, and company card reconciliation to Xero employees at all 21 of the company’s offices worldwide.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. These companies are making it easier to make a budget, invest, and buy stocks, as well as to get loans and credit cards. The secrets of user growth. debit & credit cards. In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending. bank accounts.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

The Pivot : We came up with a fresh take on the plethora of AR-style apps that create visual effects based on face detection and tracking… [Poor user experience] had a big impact on our retention metrics. Three notable excerpts: First Attempts : Blin.gy We needed 40% day-one returns and were closer to 25%. The clock kept ticking.

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Why Peer-to-Peer models struggle against oligopoly

Lex Sokolin

The media industry has been able to deploy a business model that uses the Internet to deliver a better user experience when bundled with the law. It is a worse user experience to avoid it. and by the way banking licenses are sort of hard to find in 2006?—?why why not create a connective platform like Kazaa?

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We Analyzed 9 Of The Biggest Direct-to-Consumer Success Stories To Figure Out The Secrets to Their Growth — Here’s What We Learned

CB Insights

Every Harry’s razor has five blades, plus an extra one on the back for trimming in tighter spaces — the same blade quantity and layout as that of the Gillette Fusion5 first released in 2006. Now the company is on track in 2017 to do more than $50M in revenue, according to Campfire Capital. million Series B in September 2017.

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