Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Whatever the reasons, catalogs have seen renewed life in this digital age, and will probably be a source of some innovation going forward into the new decade. In 2006, 19.8 More customization and personalization, according to experts – reflecting larger retail and technology trends, and shifts in consumer desires and expectations.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Ben Lambert, senior associate of Pelion Venture Partners, was quoted as saying , “Neurala’s executives have a deep technology background and have been leading development efforts in this industry since 2006. The Neurala Brain was formulated on technology that was originally developed for use by NASA and the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Banga will take over as chairman for Richard Haythornthwaite, who is stepping down after serving in that position since May 2006. “As Miebach has held leadership roles in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in payments, data, banking services and technology. Banga added that aside from the U.S.,

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MARCH 6, 2018

Vamos served as CEO of Microsoft Australia from 2003 to 2006, then as non-executive director of Telstra since 2009. “It’s Drury won’t be leaving the company entirely, however, and will continue to serve as non-executive chair and support Xero’s focus on innovation and strategy. “It’s million subscribers.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

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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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2019

We had been talking about all of the things we would do in the not-yet-defined future, where 5G technology is ubiquitous, our cities are connected and our lives are even better digitally modulated. But something else that was limited was the imagination of the designers who had never seen the technological innovations that were to come.

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Bobsguide

JULY 28, 2022

“Broadridge is proud to support the ongoing growth of electronic proxy voting in Japan, by providing innovative digital technology solutions to benefit issuers and investors and help modernize the industry,” said Demi Derem, managing director of International Investor Communication Solutions at Broadridge.

Company 68

Company Meeting Capital Exercises 68

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APRIL 1, 2019

Apple, the company that transformed how consumers listened to music with the iPod, was outplayed by an innovator with a new business model and a cross-platform, cross-device appeal. Amazon Prime Video launched in 2006 and now includes live sports. Discover was the first to make a splash with its cash back bonus back in 2006.

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MARCH 28, 2017

And while that joke setup can be varying levels of amusing depending on originally it is carried off (and how ridiculous the technological innovation the new parent is using), it tends to obscure a reality. Parenting is a hard job,” a 4Moms employee told us in a recent conversation.”

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

He used Twitter as example, pointing out that even for its founder, it was no doubt difficult in 2006 — when that social media messaging service launched — to anticipate the full global impact it would have on payments, commerce, marketing, politics and even culture. No one should blame the victim for the crime, of course. Proactive Approach.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Some failures of technology are very serious. In a world where we are increasingly reliant on technology and automation for a host of day-to-day activities (shopping, paying bills, running errands, working out, managing our accounts), a big tech fail can often be a serious matter. Often, but not always.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Panowicz, who worked for fellow Finovate alum mBank as Senior Director and Managing Director from the fall of 2011 to the spring of 2015, will be responsible for Kreditech’s product and technology departments. His long tenure in finance and technology includes stints at Alior Bank, Microsoft, eBay, and The Boston Consulting Group.

Technology 19

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

After starting in 2006 as a fashion-specific search platform, it has evolved into what it calls a fashion and lifestyle shopping platform, which is now owned by Rakuten. Being owned by Rakuten gives ShopStyle access to sophisticated loyalty technology and programs, which Stiefel says benefits its busines model.

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JUNE 17, 2016

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. This is a classic “technology-in-search-a problem” failure. Blockchain technology is quite innovative.

Bitcoin 100

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Insights on Business

MARCH 18, 2019

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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MARCH 8, 2017

Analysts at the time said the strength of the IPO underscored investors’ appetite for technology. The firm, he noted, was founded in 2006 by two former Oracle employees with a very simple goal: making buying for work as easy as buying for oneself at home. On its own, Coupa has already made its first big acquisition — Spend360, a U.K.

Analytics 139

Analytics Software Retail Management 139

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Haythornthwaite has served as chairman since May 2006. The new decade will be defined by the innovators who understand that time is a currency people truly value — and they will use connected devices as well as technology to maximize each unit of time. The Connected Economy: It’s About Time. That is 5G, of course.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Yet here we are 13 years later, with a taxi industry that remains structurally identical to what it was in 2006 – and even 50 years before that – with drivers who are truly struggling to make ends meet. Turning a Blind Eye. The Rise of the Gig Economy.

San Francisco 178

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

One of the most recent examples of that movement comes from Walmart , the venerable retail chain locked in mortal combat with Amazon, and Green Dot, the 20-year-old payment services provider that has managed to not only survive in a cutthroat industry, but innovate and thrive. But news broke late Tuesday afternoon (Oct. Retail FinTech Trends.

Retail 110

Retail social media Fintech Study 110

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Authentication Technologies: Bound to get a bump, and a big one, sustainable for quite a while. Look for a surge in signups for identity monitoring services, and also the technologies that – at the point of transaction – help prove you are who you say you are … and that it’s you doing the saying. Just sayin’. The good news?

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US Apple Innovation Regulation 108

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JANUARY 24, 2017

Founded in 2006, Zillow appeared as the web’s real estate guide right before the bottom fell out of the real estate market. But then, AI is getting better everyday and the goal for at least some innovators to create something that feels exactly like talking to and working with a person.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

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. And what was the product? No, not the iPhone, but that would be a good guess. It’s the decoupled debit card. There’s a simple reason for that resistance.

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MARCH 19, 2018

And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness. That the middle class is bifurcating — to the have’s and mostly to the have not’s as a result of jobs that are disappearing because technology and software is eliminating them. They all died.

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MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” Except, of course, it didn’t – and it is now in the crowded graveyard of payments innovations that sounded too good to be true.

Bitcoin 100

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? Didn't even exist in 2006. It's proprietary technology gives consumers a virtually paperless experience. or Idea Killers? More talk about fintech, dinosaur bankers, and flavors of the month.

Apple 65

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MARCH 8, 2017

YapStone applied that same discipline when it entered the vacation rental vertical in 2006, eventually building an end-to-end payments solution serving that particular market. “It’s very easy to underestimate the complexity of what’s required to scale a payments company, regardless of your go-to market strategy.”.

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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. Digital banks.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

As technology continues to provide more creative means for financial transactions, so, too, must financial technology companies be careful to abide by the rules that ensure stability and fairness in these emerging markets.” When LendingClub entered the market in 2006, Laplanche had one idea in mind: disrupt the banks.

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Lending Fraud Management San Francisco 135

Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

bank failures per year between 1996 and 2006, and 3.6 In the late 90s, low interest rates made speculative equity investments more attractive than bonds, and at the same time, innovative internet companies grew in popularity among retail investors, professional traders, venture capitalists, and the like (familiar?).

FDIC 78

FDIC Community Bank Regulation Lending 78

Independent Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online marketplace lenders are a new form of nonbank specialty lending that uses technology platforms to allow Wall Street and individual investors to directly fund loans to consumers and small businesses. Treasury that “they’re technology companies, not lenders.” Treasury that “they’re technology companies, not lenders.”

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 8, 2021

Ant Technology. Plaid Technologies. 1 April 2021. United States. 2018 round. 1 April 2021. 1 April 2021. United States. Mar 2021 round. United States. Secondary mkt value (10 Mar 21). United States. 1 April 2021. Netherlands. 1 April 2021. 1 April 2021. New Zealand. 1 April 2021. United States. One97 (PayTM). Nov 2019 round.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

When Renaud Laplanche founded LendingClub 12 years ago in 2006, the lending landscape was a very different place. The new financing will fuel Upgrade’s continued product innovation on the heels of its Personal Credit Line launch and the expansion of Credit Health, Upgrade’s credit monitoring and education product.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. ” said Motorola CEO Ed Zander, speaking at a conference in 2006. Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends. ” Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends. The iPhone and iPod. original iPhone.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

And nowhere is Bezos’ philosophy of business, technology, and leadership better articulated than in his annual shareholder letters, which he has written every year since the company’s IPO in 1997. 2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2011: Self-service platforms unlock innovation.

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MyBankTracker

APRIL 20, 2021

So, there are other ways to invest in space technology. Innovators in space technology. There are other aerospace companies, such as Boeing, that do a lot of manufacturing related to outer space and have divisions dedicated to developing space technologies. It launched its first spacecraft, the Falcon 1, in 2006.

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