PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Blockchain. Marketplace lending. Blockchain.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Many fintech companies out there are trying, very literally, to become the next Mint.com. Like NerdWallet is today, Mint became an authority in the space — a reputation that allowed it to overcome some of the inherent difficulties in being a personal fintech company that relies on people sharing their financial information.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Title: Fintech ‘Plastc’ Shuts Down After Cancelling All 80,000 Pre Orders. The clock kept ticking.

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Lex Sokolin

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We think that Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, and the Federal Reserve, and the rest of “them”, whoever “they” are, are centralized monoliths running on papyrus and holding back innovation. 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.

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