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Where are The FinTech Darlings Now?

Jeff For Banks

A banker told me yesterday that if I wanted headlines in American Banker , put FinTech in my copy. So far I'm up to five mentions. Firms started in the dorm room that have no employees, just an eager volunteer, no revenue, and no capital need not apply. We all know there is something to it. You know who you are.

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Traditional Banks v. Alternative Lenders: How Goliath Can Beat David

Banking 2020

Daily, I have been reminded by the government, that the signs of economic recovery are all around me. The signs of change are around us, but it’s more likely that the US economy is rearranging itself rather than simply recovering under the old umbrella of Wall Street. My answer, combine the best of both worlds.

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What Customer Intimacy Has To Do With Payments

PYMNTS

Clerico has built WePay from the ground up through his innate love of people and by building relationships with customers to provide them with a payments platform that is exactly what they want and need. What have the powerhouses Starbucks and Airbnb managed to do better than anyone else? BC: Well, no day is ever the same.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

On the eve of Yahoo’s acquisition of social networking platform Tumblr, then Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote a Tumblr post promising “not to screw it up.” Below, we look at some the worst mergers and acquisitions undertaken by large corporations, and how the good times went bad. The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. Microsoft and Nokia.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. After the collapse of Lehman and Bear Stearns and the global financial crisis that ensued, the business models of the world’s biggest investment banks needed to change.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. But that’s for next year. THE BANKING AWARDS.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

In this review of failure, we’ve looked in our venture capital database to find the most well-funded startup companies that ultimately failed or had an undesirable exit, such as an asset sale or an acquisition for less than the total funding raised by the company. For those who’ve been reading, we’ve had failure on the brain recently.

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