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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

In the late 90s, low interest rates made speculative equity investments more attractive than bonds, and at the same time, innovative internet companies grew in popularity among retail investors, professional traders, venture capitalists, and the like (familiar?). credit default swaps anyone?). Let those numbers sink in a bit.

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Bitcoin’s Resplendent Week

PYMNTS

But Takach is confident that the law will catch up with technological innovation. A second ad due for release in a few weeks will provide information for local business owners on how to accept bitcoin and its benefits to the local community. versus Canada, according to NewsBTC. So, residents of Keene have it right.

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

CB Insights

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. A decade of online payments innovation.

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AltFin’s Bumpy Ride Into An Uncertain 2019

PYMNTS

consumers owe roughly 26 percent of their annual income to debt, up from 22 percent in 2010. High interest-rate arresting activity, as it turned out, was a theme throughout the year’s stories as well — e ven in segments where activity was, overall, quite innovative. According to the Federal Reserve , U.S. That amounts to $13.2

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The Future Of Housing: From Home Building To City Planning, Tech Giants & Startups Are Reimagining Where & How We Live

CB Insights

Forward-thinking startups and large tech companies like Facebook and Google are focused on innovation in single-family and multi-family residential construction. In Seattle, as Amazon has grown from 5,000 employees in 2010 to 40,000 in August 2017, home prices are reportedly rising faster than any other city in the US.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Read on for post-mortems on 10 of the latest startups to bite the dust. Around 4 p.m., Product: AudienceScience.

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The 85 Fintech Graduates of Y Combinator (YC): 2005 to 2016

Fintech Labs Insights

Captain 401k : Tax-advantaged investments. Seed : Small business banking for innovators. ClearTax ; The easiest way to e-File income tax returns in India. Zen99 : 1099 tax help for rideshare drivers, delivery drivers, housekeepers, and more. Zidisha : Online microlending community. Total Companies.

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