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

CB Insights

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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Reverse Trend

Independent Banker

billion in assets and operates 60 retail locations, is licensed to originate reverse mortgages in most of the United States. More of the bank’s retail loan staff members also are being trained to start the reverse mortgage application process. FirstBank, which has $2.3 The bank closes 35 to 45 reverse mortgages each month.

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The British cash gap

Tomorrow's Transactions

Central banks and criminals are colluding to grow the shadow economy, which seems mad to me, because the seigniorage income from the circulating medium of exchange is a fraction of the tax gap it stimulates. in Q4 2007. Surely we should have a plan to do something about this? From Trying to glimpse the ‘grey economy’ | vox ].

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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

More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. First municipalities and larger commercial customers, and more sophisticated retail depositors. trillion failed. What caused it?

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Putting A Price On Puppy Love

PYMNTS

Here at PYMNTS, we see it all, often in the form of press releases – most of which claim to be the next big thing in retail, commerce and financial services. billion per year on their pets; as of 2007, pet owners spent $41.2 For reference, a top-of-the-line pair of Neuticals retails for $469. In 2016, Americans spent $66.75

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Fintech Trending: The API-ification of Banks

Fintech Labs Insights

Peruse online and hard-copy publications and you’ll find a lot of support for developers: see Citigroup’s launch of its developer hub ; Dwolla’s ( FS 2015 ) shift in focus from consumer app to becoming a platform; and the launch of Monitise’s ( FF 2007 ) FINkit platform.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

They must not see falling oil prices, weak GDP growth, falling gold prices, a narrowing Treasury-TIPS spread, rising debt levels, lower consumer spending, a low labor force participation rate, low productivity, and consumer prices so weak that major retail companies are closing stores at a record pace. Rising debt levels will not stop them.