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Auld Lang Syne: Remembering Social Media Milestones

Social Assurance

As we wrap up 2018, here are a several milestones our team is reflecting on, plus a current status update: 2006: Myspace reigns as the most popular internet site — marking more unique visits than Google itself. July 2006: Twitter launches and allows users to post using only 140 characters. Facebook Today: Facebook has 2.27

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It Started with a Tweet #SocialMedia #Banks @ICBA

Independent Banker

A status update on banks and social media. The first tweet ever written was by co-founder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006, at 9:50 p.m., It is apparent everywhere you turn that social media is one of the hottest new communications tools in our society. 140-word summary of the social media guidance.

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

Jeff For Banks

bank failures per year between 1996 and 2006, and 3.6 Second, this can be accomplished only if the industry does not have too much influence over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff. Third, the regulators need adequate financial resources. banks failed a year.

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What Beautiful Artificial Intelligence Art teaches us about Financial Services

Lex Sokolin

Home photo albums grew from a few dozen mundane, poorly composed pictures, to millions of images immaculately designed and filtered for social media. Roboadvisors in 2019 will give you Goldman’s 2006 asset allocation for pretty much free. That is, if it isn’t stomped into the ground by regulators first. Looking for more?

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What Beautiful Artificial Intelligence Art teaches us about Financial Services

Lex Sokolin

Home photo albums grew from a few dozen mundane, poorly composed pictures, to millions of images immaculately designed and filtered for social media. Roboadvisors in 2019 will give you Goldman’s 2006 asset allocation for pretty much free. That is, if it isn’t stomped into the ground by regulators first. Looking for more?

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Red Envelopes, Fortnite And The Rise Of Micro Money Laundering

PYMNTS

Their particular business benefits from such shifts, as the best money launderers seek out new holes in anti-money laundering (AML) defenses, and new ways to escape the notice of law enforcement and regulators. Red envelopes, in fact, stand as only one example of that trend. No one should blame the victim for the crime, of course.

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Why Peer-to-Peer models struggle against oligopoly

Lex Sokolin

The core premise at its founding was to recreate the dynamics of the sharing and social media revolutions. and by the way banking licenses are sort of hard to find in 2006?—?why The high tech platforms outlived all of the individual fintech competitors, and used their size and credibility with regulators to remain in business.

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