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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. In 2010, Blockbuster declared bankruptcy, a decade after famously telling Netflix, which then had $5 million in annual sales, to get lost when they suggested that Blockbuster buy them.

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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. At the peak of the crisis, the delinquency rate was 10 percent in 2010, as underwater mortgages and foreclosures hit the headlines. Necessity is the mother of invention.

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i2c, Sightline Team Up For Cashless Cross-Channel Gaming 

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Founded in 2010, Sightline has experienced 744 percent revenue growth since 2015. Its client roster includes MGM Resorts, Caesars Resorts, and Hard Rock Hotel and Casino; the Oregon and Pennsylvania state lotteries; Churchill Downs; Golden Nugget online; and DraftKings, FanDuel, William Hill, and Rush Street sports, among others.

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Farfetch IPO Shows Luxury Retailers Ready To Ware Online

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The online marketplace has disrupted any number of verticals, changing the way we shop and spend, and where we grab must-have items — from books to rugs to lamps, and sometimes from across international borders. We are redefining how fashion is bought and sold through technology, data and innovation.”. Within that, how much is online?

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Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention

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As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

Fintech Labs Insights

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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Citi Ventures on the Lookout for Machine Learning Startups in 2018

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE – Since its launch in 2010, Citi Ventures has focused on investments that are strategic to its parent, the global financial services provider Citigroup. But when your parent company is a bank that spans the world, you can get involved with a lot of things.

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