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What Australia Can Teach The World About Real-Time Payments

PYMNTS

a number of leading tech companies have become vocal in their support of a real-time payments (RTP) network, to be created under the leadership of the Federal Reserve and different from what has been previously proposed by the big banks. Businesses are looking for better ways to manage their cash flow and working capital.”

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

CB Insights

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Leadership and board members. Fraud prevention tools. Focus on developers. How Stripe makes money. Market opportunity. Funding, valuation, and investors.

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17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

CB Insights

Below, we take a look at some of these frauds and the lessons they can teach entrepreneurs hoping to launch their own products, companies, and funds. Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. Virgin Hyperloop One’s utopian vision derailed by fraud. Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

Date: March 21, 2012. Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, Date: 2012. Zynga and OMGPOP. Price: $210M. a viral gaming hit for iOS and Android. Caterpillar and ERA. Price: $677M.

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The 2015 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

August 2012: Big merchants announce new consortium to combat interchange rates. Best Leadership Performance in a Core Conversion. An old adage that never gets old: it matters when leadership hangs out in the foxhole. Roboadvisor Future Advisor acquired by establishment asset management giant BlackRock for $150M. Y2K Redux Award.

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Autopsy Report: 9 Startup Failure Stories And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

Companies across industries from food delivery to mobile payments disintegrate for all kinds of reasons, from technology errors and logistical challenges to overspending and outright fraud. To some, Silicon Valley startup culture was as much to blame for Theranos’ failure as the company’s leadership. Table of Contents.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

CB Insights

Accusations of fraud and mismanagement, and criticisms of the government’s decision to invest in Solyndra, were rampant in the days following news of Solyndra’s impending bankruptcy proceedings — but the core mistake here involved ignorance of a key aspect of Solyndra’s business.

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