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How Thinking Smaller Helps FinTechs Scale

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In fact, when it comes to FinTech companies, thinking “small” by focusing and serving a relatively small number of huge markets may provide the best opportunity to drive more impactful revenue with sustainable and profitable growth. Navigating the FinTech Waters. There’s more to thinking small than one might think.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

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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’s still going under the stewardship of fintech famous Jim Marous, who modernized the name to Digital Banking Report (and recently opened the archives for free access).

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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trillion; on security-related hardware, software and services at 10 percent a year from a 2018 base of $91.4 They’re also using software and cryptographic techniques and permissioned-based networks to digitize and move assets around the world faster and in a secure, compliant manner. Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S.,

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How To Live Forever In The Financial Services Space

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From user interface technology to security and risk management, the only constant in the financial space is that nothing stays the same for long. Apart from significant investments in marketing, there are two critical components for the long haul: technology and working capital.

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FinTech’s Bright Future Marred by Hype

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Unfortunately, “60 Minutes,” famous for investigative journalism, missed the really big story in FinTech. A few days later, one of the founding fathers of FinTech, Renaud Laplanche , was forced out of Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lender he founded in 2006, following scandals over loan disclosures and conflicts of interest.

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120 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century: November 2020 Update

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At FintechLIVE , we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). But we achieved a new milestone surpassing the $1 TRILLION-mark in total valuation among the 120 public and private financial technology companies. Full Fintech Unicorn list (values as of 2 Dec 2020). Ant Technology.

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Stop money laundering with a proactive AML approach

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Not just a limited scheme, between 2006 and 2013 it facilitated fake trade deals, reinsurance fraud, tax evasion, hidden investments, a fuel pricing fraud scheme at Sheremetyevo Airport—and much more. Second, use technology to eliminate unnecessary data gathering and give your analysts more time to do their critical work.

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