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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. David Weiss, president of YapStone , shared with PYMNTS some big misconceptions about market specialization.

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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. percent share of the global money transfer market and puts the company at No. Today, we cover more than 150 markets and handle close to $30 billion in transfers.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

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bank failures per year between 1996 and 2006, and 3.6 Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose 800%, only to fall 740% from its peak by October 2002, giving up all its gains during the bubble. And quite frankly, I did not know there were so many tranches to mortgage-backed securities.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have officially ended a two-year investigation of LendingClub, its subsidiary LC Advisors (LCA), its founder and former CEO Renaud Laplanche and its former CFO Carrie Dolan. “As On Friday (Sept. Attorney Alex Tse. “We The Response.

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How payments innovation could transform the retail industry

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According to Intel , the “breathtaking” rate of growth in the IoT could result in it encompassing 200 billion objects by 2020, compared to two billion in 2006. But first, they must gain consumer trust and demonstrate that these innovations can be delivered with maximum security and no disruption to the overall customer experience.

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Guest Post: 2nd Qtr Economic Review by Dorothy Jaworski

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Shell Shocked If you are a fixed income investor, you have seen the worst that the markets have to offer in the second quarter of 2013. Mutual funds and ETFs specializing in mortgage backed securities saw their worst quarter in terms of losses and outflows since 1992. If you are a fixed income investor, you are clearly shell shocked.

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Guest Post: First Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

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They purchased securities during the crisis and stepped up where they could as a lender of last resort. trillion of securities. Despite the trillions of dollars used to buy securities and zero cost money, economic growth is struggling at 1.7% From yield curves, we can calculate market expectations of rates in the future.