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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

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But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. In 2007, Netflix introduced streaming services to further scratch that consumer itch. In the book, he freely admits that his formula might not work for every company.

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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 was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below).

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

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And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. Student debt was at $545 billion at the end of 2007, just ahead of the financial crisis, and now stands at more than $1.5 Necessity is the mother of invention.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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Bidco Agrees To Acquire Paysafe In All-Cash Deal

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Pi UK Bidco Limited — a newly incorporated company jointly-owned and managed by American multinational private equity firm Blackstone and private investing consulting firm CVC — announced it has reached an all-cash agreement to acquire online payments company Paysafe.

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Investors Balk At Talk Of Alt-SME Lending Collapse

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million worth of venture capital across two deals. That may not have been surprising this time last year, but today, considering talk of lackluster performance by these innovators — plus recent warnings over a total market collapse — that funding is pretty impressive. Find out who made the deal and how the rest of the more than $81.5

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Top 28 Digital Lenders to U.S. Small Businesses

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Bank of Montreal online mortgage app circa Jan 1998 (via Internet archive). It’s telling that Apply by Phone/Fax were more prominent than Apply Online. files over the weekend, I ran across an Online Banking Report article I wrote in 1997 about Bank of Montreal’s pioneering online mortgage application. CAN Capital.

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