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Providing Wine Consumers With eCommerce Innovations

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Wine Insiders , in one case, has combined edgy technology and innovations, and supplemented traditional marketing channels with digital advertising. 2014: The year that DRINKS , which was Wine Insiders’ chief competitor, acquired the company. All this, Today in Data. 400M: Amount of revenue Wine Insiders has brought in to date.

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2016 Innovators to Watch: 1 to 5

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Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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FinTech, Cirdan Capital Selects Axia by Profile to advance their operations

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Profile Software , the leading financial solutions provider, announced today the selection of Axia by Cirdan Capital, a financial technology company in the UK founded in 2014, that specialises in the issuance of structured investment products, to complete the proprietary technology of its platform.

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Sterling Bancorp Names Leaders Of Innovation Finance Group

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Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar

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Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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The 2014 GonzoBanker Awards

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It’s time for the 2014 GonzoBanker Awards! A keen industry mind who banks the highest tweets-per-minute ratio of anyone out there, Bradley departed his VP digital strategy position at California’s $3B Mechanics Bank to be North American head of innovation for $77B and Top 20 worldwide bank Santander. but let’s just dive into it!

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Why The QSR Drive-Thru Is Fueling Retail Innovation

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The acquisition aims to help McDonald’s improve order-taking operations in its drive-thru facilities by implementing voice-recognition technology to help customers navigate increasingly complex quick-service restaurant (QSR) menus. But recent changes have sparked even more interest and innovation from commerce operators.

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