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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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Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention

PYMNTS

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. When most people asked “what’s next?” and run on the Discover rails.

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

CB Insights

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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Fast EMV, Mobile Starbucks And Under-Fire Payday Lending

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Visa is determined to make EMV faster, Starbucks wants to make getting that cuppa joe faster, too, and is crushing it with mobile order ahead and the CFPB might be moving closer to having a fast exodus of the payday lending business once its rules drop. Overall, year over year, online fraud attacks have spiked 215 percent.

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Stop Working on Your App Immediately

Bank Innovation

Since 2012, it has been the fastest growing technology in banking. That’s the word out of Digital Banking 2016 here, where bankers outnumber entrepreneurs (but not vendors). The mobile banking app traces its roots to SMS banking back in 1999. But it comes with Read More.

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Lease-To-Own Services Make A Comeback With Overstock.com

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Overstock.com is no stranger to offering financial services — it already provides credit cards, lending, investments and insurance services to its customers. In May , Sears Holdings announced that it had expanded its leasing program to allow customers to finance a variety of products, both in-store and online.

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Why Banks Reach For The Unprofitable, Demanding SME

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The dominating narrative in small business lending is the rise in alternative finance to fill the gaps left behind by traditional banks. Even so, FinTech innovators aren’t ignoring traditional FIs, with many developing solutions just for the banks to help them ease back into the game. and other markets.

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