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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. In 2011, Buffett made a $10 billion investment in the company in support of then-new CEO Ginni Rometty’s turnaround plans.

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Delivering Trust for Risk-Aware Telcos - Using Data and Analytics

FICO

By moving beyond the current one-size-fits-all approach, telecom operators can customise the user experience by identifying user personas and applying an analytical overlay to their customer data assets, to continually deliver critical insight and targeted customized experiences. But it’s all about trust.

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The Challenger Bank Playbook: How 6 Digital Banking Startups Are Taking On Retail Banking

CB Insights

These startups “challenge” the traditional incumbent business model by charging customers transparent low fees, providing faster services, and delivering a better user experience through always-available digital interfaces. Atom Bank, for example, launched a savings account and SMB lending after regulatory approval.

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SuperMoney Brings a Kayak-Like UX to the Online Borrowing Process

Fintech Labs Insights

CEO Miron Lulic urges you to think of the “serendipity” of real-time offers provided on platforms like airline fare aggregator Kayak, and imagine the same user experience in financial services. Lending aggregators popped up to solve this problem by ‘matching’ borrowers with lenders. Magazine’s 2015 ranking.

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37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

CB Insights

Key people: Annie Ye, Head of DAX, Senior Vice President, DBS Innovation Group; Neal Cross, Managing Director & Chief Innovation Officer. DAX has also worked with the DBS Innovation Group (DiG) on Hack2hire, a hackathon that allows participants to code their way into a career at DBS, and the UNI.CORN management internship program.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

Lending Club made changes to its business model that created new opportunities for growth. Lending Club. ” WhatsApp and Sequoia Capital followed a different strategy: Sequoia was the sole investor in WhatsApp’s $8M Series A round in 2011, which valued the company at $78.4M. King Digital Entertainment. Delivery Hero.

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Why Peer-to-Peer models struggle against oligopoly

Lex Sokolin

Initially, the naive reaction of the labels was to build digital rights management into music players, and song files, and any teenager onto whom they could tattoo the letter of the law. The media industry has been able to deploy a business model that uses the Internet to deliver a better user experience when bundled with the law.

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