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The US could be facing a 2008-style financial crisis. Why does Sunak want to copy it?

TheGuardian

The PM’s admiration for Washington’s economic model may backfire amid looming US banking and stock market disasters One of the consistent themes of the Conservative economic narrative is an admiration for the US and its ability to grow quickly. And how both these habits could bite back in a big way, much as they did in 2008, and pretty soon.

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Banking Innovation Enters New Era; Consolidation Now The Rule

PYMNTS

What makes the current developments so interesting and exciting is that “we're just seeing that they're at the end of the innovation growth cycle,” he explained. All of these new FinTechs and digital innovators are changing the landscape as the role of payments rapidly shifts in the broader financial services arena.

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Apple & Twitter are on a collision course | Sequoia Capital warns today’s downturn is worse than 2000/2008 | Impact of metaverse on digital marketing

Bussman Advisory

Sequoia Capital warns today’s downturn is worse than 2000 and 2008. Will the metaverse’s impact on digital marketing be equivalent to social media? More information on www.bussmannadvisory.com. The latest edition of the FinTech Ecosystem Newsletter is here : Interested in FinTech or Digital Assets related Advisory or Workshop?

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Black Swans Are The Sandbox Of New Innovations

PYMNTS

Jim McCarthy, i2c president, says disasters often breed innovation. Black Swans Are the Sandbox of New Innovations. At the time of the black swans in 2001 and 2008, it was hard to tell anything positive was coming out of them. While it may take years, these good, innovative ideas often resurface when the time is right.

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

PYMNTS

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. The growing popularity of DVD rentals in the early 2000s introduced more competition into the market, making them more affordable for more consumers. I Don’t Want To, But I Have To’.

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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

The bank that will be around in the next 50 years will be one that develops the ability to build infrastructure now that allows for efficient innovation in the future. While Blockbuster was investing in marketing and cost-cutting, Netflix agreed to have lower earnings and made an investment in video streaming. Do you remember them?

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Kazakh FinTech Defers London IPO On ‘Unfavorable’ Market Conditions

PYMNTS

initial public offering (IPO), which was poised to be the biggest IPO by a central Asian company since the 2008 global financial crisis. still decided to postpone its listing “in light of currently unfavourable and uncertain market conditions, particularly in the technology sector.” stock market.

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