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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

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But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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The High Price Of Payments — And Innovation — In Travel

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Payments costs $75 billion annually for the global travel industry, according to the new PYMNTS Travel Payments Study , an Amadeus collaboration, and 5.4 Innovation Challenges. Payments innovation, for starters, is an alien concept for many travel service providers, especially in the U.S. Innovation Willingness.

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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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Duffel Funding Round Adds Fuel To Travel Industry Innovation

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million in fresh funding, capital that will go toward “a B2B offering (that allows) individual travel agents at large online travel management companies and tour operators to offer a ‘seamless travel experience’ to their end customers, making the booking experience simpler, faster and cheaper.”. based startup called Duffel. Payments Cost.

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Spend Controls Fuel Commercial Card Innovation

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Spend controls were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to feature and program launches. This week’s commercial card innovation tracker includes a rollout of the next generation of authorization controls from Comdata Inc., as well as the launch of the Flex by Finaxar initiative from Finaxar.

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In Banking Innovation, Eyeing The Needs Of The ‘Digital Native’

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Depending on where you look, the chasm yawns wide when it comes to innovating with new technologies or features. In a PYMNTS interview with Karen Webster, Joe DeRosa, EVP of Global Sales at i2c , discussed the findings of the July 2019 Innovation Readiness Playbook , subtitled “Leveling the Playing Field for Different-Sized FIs.”

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UK Study Finds Broad FI Support For Open Banking

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A vast majority of firms in that sector surveyed by Forrester (and commissioned by TransUnion) – 99 percent of them, in fact – view open banking as beneficial to financial services, as reported by Enterprise Innovation. Additionally, as many as 46 percent expect to see better customer experiences.

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