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Equifax Names Ex-Mastercard CEO To Its Board

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Bob’s record of strategic innovation and background as a seasoned CEO with knowledge of our industry will strengthen our Board’s broad-based skillset. According to Equifax , Selander served as president and CEO of Mastercard from 1997 until 2010. Feidler in the press release.

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The Connected Economy: It’s About Time

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One of the most important innovations in history is the pendulum clock, which was invented in 1636 by Christiaan Huygens , a Dutch scientist and founder of the field of mathematical physics. Enabling people to use their scarce time more efficiently has been at the core of many disruptive innovations throughout history.

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Yahoo! Is! For! Sale!: Why Banks Should Care

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The announcement in December came on the heels of a nearly 12-month project aimed at spinning its 15% interest (worth $30 billion) in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, to its shareholders, a transaction that has been abandoned over tax concerns. After a dalliance with Microsoft’s Bing in 2010, Yahoo! Ironically, Yahoo!

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Copenhagen Banks On Livability For Tech Success

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Denmark has gained quite a reputation for supporting an overall positive business environment and fostering creativity and innovation – all of which have contributed to its capital city attracting the attention of global startups. There is a perception that larger companies drive innovation as opposed to startups.

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AltFin Shines As Investor Interest In B2B FinTech Continues

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Total venture capital across the global FinTech market between 2010 and 2017 hit a combined $97.7 Reports in The Australian Financial Review this week said the company uses blockchain to facilitate supply chain finance to the agriculture business, offering supply chain management features also powered by distributed ledger technology.

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Bitcoin’s Resplendent Week

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But Takach is confident that the law will catch up with technological innovation. Takach’s point is that different states and countries will have a different reaction to disruptive technologies, and a rushed and ill-thought-out policy could be counterproductive. versus Canada, according to NewsBTC.

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

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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. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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