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

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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. Mobile adoption has driven uptake.

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Finovate Debuts: Capriza Makes Enterprise Apps Uber-Easy

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Pictured: Capriza VP of Regional Business Development Ivan Prafder demonstrating Capriza at FinovateFall 2015. “We think of this efficiency that users have come to expect as the ‘one minute experience,’ Ivan Prafder, Capriza VP of Regional Business Development, said. Founded in July 2011.

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AppsFlyer Unifies Mobile Marketing Attribution, Sees $56M Series C

PYMNTS

Looking at the regional breakdown, the U.S. Other regions notched only single-digit percentage rates. Additionally, the volume of SDKs required to effectively attribute mobile app marketing efforts occasionally caused slowdowns in user experiences. held sway with 83 percent of the investments for the week.

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Lessons From The Failed Chatbot Revolution — And 5 Industries Where The Tech Is Making A Comeback

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Chatbots could help mitigate some of these problems by streamlining patient engagement and increasing access to care in underserved regions. The median size of a single page on a desktop website is about 1,500 KB, a 3x increase from 2011, according to HTTP Archive. Source: HTTP Archive.

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37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

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Founded: 2011. Working with the lab, the Eyevido team was able to conduct eye-tracking studies of Deutsche Bank’s retail banking websites to help improve the user experience for customers. Its also expanding its regional focus too, with a recent announcement that the labs will invest more into R&D in India.

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Why The Next Big Connected Commerce Play Is Television

PYMNTS

A feed running on the side of a television show required the use of remote controls to “shop” the products promoted in those feeds — a clunky experience that never got much, if any, commercial traction. In 2010, Bluefly launched QR codes, as did HSN in 2011, so that viewers could use their phones to link to product pages for purchases.

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

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” 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. After an initial $8M investment in WhatsApp’s Series A in April 2011, Sequoia put in an additional $52M in July 2013. round to the company in 2011.

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