PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2016

And government … “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. If we don’t continue to evolve our network into something that adds value to the experience that an innovator or any third party wants to deliver to an issuer, a merchant or a consumer, then of course they’ll find something else that will.”. But I repeat myself.”. The culprit?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

Even though all the little gold statues were given out in Hollywood, there’s no reason to dispense with the awarding of titles in our little corner of the world. Meanwhile, Visa announced the latest launch of the Visa’s Everywhere Initiative — it’s worldwide push to find and advance the best and the brightest in startups around the world.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

Even as the media storm around the sector has calmed, regulators are acting more aggressively and decisively, issuing subpoenas to bad actors and providing guidance to good ones. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology. THE FUTURE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECH.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The OJK, Indonesia’s financial services regulator, is already starting to clamp down by launching a selective registration process and shutting down unlicensed firms that continue to operate. Overall insurance penetration in the country of 264M people ranks among the lowest in the world at <2% (4.5M in premiums in 2016.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) show that several of the largest global banks moved money on behalf of scores of individuals and enterprises involved in criminal financial activity. But AI is still relatively rare in the banking world: Only 5.5 In one example, reported on Monday (Sept.

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Lex Sokolin

JULY 19, 2019

These roots must yield social fruit: each person thrust into our world is due their basic human rights, of which working dignity and mental health are becoming an increasing requirement. Today’s corporations and governments are in the business of defining the balance of these aspects of our participation in society and the economy.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In 2006, investment banks were at the top of the finance world. After the collapse of Lehman and Bear Stearns and the global financial crisis that ensued, the business models of the world’s biggest investment banks needed to change. In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

Two hundred years ago, the world was introduced to Dr. Victor Frankenstein. What may not be as familiar is its potential relevance to the regulations put in place by the European Union (EU), which forces its idea, from Brussels, of a perfect regulatory environment on the rest of the world.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Today, Amazon Pay has evolved to include a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants. Traction/Metrics: Today’s iteration is Amazon Pay, a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants and shoppers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Bots on Messenger were launched in April of 2016 – two years after Marcus took charge – to much fanfare. Its base was an established network of people who interacted with each other and, among other things, played games, which was Tencent’s main business.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The firm’s technology enables companies to access both investor and dealer networks directly for the first time, what Overbond co-founder and CEO Vuk Magdelinic called “a little bit like eBay meets Funding Circle.” Magdelinic: Corporate and government fixed income issuers, fixed income dealers, and fixed income investors.

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BankBazaar

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The 25th of August in 2016 was a significant day. It was the day that 86 percent of the world’s currency was demonetized. In 2011, just a small percentage of the approximately 10 million retailers expected card payments, according to the same paper and around 145 million households were not connected to the banking system.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Top initiatives: Filed patent in 2016 for autonomous lane-switching technology. Top initiatives: Building employee transportation network; currently have 66 self-driving minivans on the road in California. Some setbacks for Apple’s self-driving car program, Project Titan, in 2016. Apple starting to catch up.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Some of the world’s top researchers and industry leaders believe these issues are just the tip of the iceberg. How might that redefine humanity’s place in the world? Regulation will be essential. We cannot regulate technology that we cannot predict. Reshaping the workforce. Unpredictable behavior.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This generated a good $6 billion of revenue in 2016, though that number is likely further compressed given attempts at regulating this sector. lending/trading/saving), and are computing concurrently on a giant programmable blockchain network. They also often lack financial literacy and education?—?and billion valuation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

We’ll see if the government files an appeal. Nearly 75 percent of them are concerned over more regulation that would restrict the availability of the product they really like. Complain about regulators ringing the life out of innovation – well, too bad, they’ll say.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Today, the “Oracle of Omaha’s” net worth is almost $83B — making him the third wealthiest person in the world, after Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Buffet’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns nearly 10% stakes in juggernaut companies like Coca-Cola and Wells Fargo. Source: World Economic Forum. Investment strategy.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Download this presentation from the CB Insights Innovation Summit to see the technologies, business models and distribution innovations that you should watch for in the next 5 to 10 years. As he explained in remarks at a June 2016 conference: “If you assume any rate of advancement in AI, we will be left behind by a lot.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Out the investor went, proudly showing the world the newest innovation in clothing design and manufacturing all his own. Innovators also find new use cases for these new currencies, including Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), to raise money to fund innovation outside of the realm of existing securities regulation.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 4, 2018

Interestingly, the impact of AI in trading and investment management can be seen most starkly in the hedge fund world. Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine ranked the 25 best-paid hedge fund managers and 8 of the top 10 were algorithmic funds (not active managers). Another company here is Restless Bandit. Series A round.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The technology allowed this to happen at scale, globally, with cryptography doing what institutions like commercial banks, financial regulators, and central banks used to do: verify the legitimacy of transactions and safeguard the integrity of the underlying asset. These nodes are distributed around the world. Is Bitcoin really secure?

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Today, trillions of dollars slosh around the world via an antiquated system of slow payments and added fees. Cross-border transactions, from payments to letters of credit generated 40% of global payments transactional revenues during 2016. Nearly 10% of Santander’s revenue in 2016 came from international transfers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

But it is simply not right to say that the last two bullet points are the direct result of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple’s success over the last 10 to 15 years. You notice it’s your friend’s birthday and have the perfect opportunity to send a … physical gift card that they receive 10 days after the event.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The company had lost $81 million in the 2016 financial year with revenue of just $1.2 Advertising revenue declined sharply [2016], leaving the company unable to service its debt, and no suitors took a bite. The company also found itself confronted by conflicting energy program mandates and regulations. Then P2P networking.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Those document windows gave birth to the icons that today serve as the predominant shortcuts to apps on mobile screens, which have blurred the lines between the digital and physical worlds for going on four decades now. That’s up from 50 percent in 2017 and 43 percent in 2016. In fact, it already is. population to adopt broadband.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 25, 2017

Banks are among the growing number of financial services giants investing in blockchain startups such as R3 CEV, which is working with an 80+ member consortium of banks, regulators, and technology partners to develop Corda, a blockchain platform designed to be the “new operating system” for financial markets. Networking and IoT.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

A $10 million payment to remain a founding member would come sometime after that meeting took place – before the end of the year, it was said. What has happened four months after the official launch of Libra was highly predictable – and a path that I laid out in the 10 pages I published the day the news broke. These are the same 1.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

3, 2019 will mark the 10th anniversary of the first bitcoin block that was mined by Satoshi, giving birth to the notion that a digitized, anonymized currency sent over a permission-less, distributed ledger could democratize how money would move between people and parties around the world. It isn’t because it won’t.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

2017 Third Update (10/31/17). 2017 First Update (2/10/17). 2016 Third Update (11/8/16). 2016 Second Update (7/28/2016). 2016 First Update (2/15/2016). 2017 Third Update (10/31/17). Read on for post-mortems on 10 of the latest startups to bite the dust. 2017 Second Update (6/9/17).

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CB Insights

MAY 3, 2018

The 2016 US presidential election was shaped by a volatile mix of fake news, foreign meddling, doctored images, massive email leaks, and even a cartoon meme (Pepe the Frog). Military and intelligence agencies around the world are already waging secret information wars in cyberspace. Government regulation & national security.

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