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Fears of a Fintech Slowdown? How to Pivot Your Brand for a New Era

Bank Innovation

For most of the past decade, the fintech sector seemed to have nothing but blue skies ahead. CEO scandals, pulled IPOs and sinking stock prices, have taken the luster off previously high-flying brands. But over the last 12 months, warnings that first signaled in 2016 have been flashing brighter.

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12 Coolest Brands in Banking 2016

Bank Innovation

We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.

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The State Of FI Innovation: Moving In Reverse

PYMNTS

Those who work in and around high tech and innovation are lulled into a narrative about progress being on a march ever forward, rarely slowing, never stopping and certainly never turning around and marching in the wrong direction. . Even worse, it’s having an impact on how quickly their innovations can get to market.

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Walmart, Green Dot Create FinTech Accelerator Partnership

PYMNTS

Walmart and Green Dot have announced that they are going to develop a FinTech accelerator together and call it “TailFin Labs, LLC,” the companies said in a release. The accelerator will create new products, technologies and services that exist in the meeting place of retail shopping and consumer financial services. 1 of next year.

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Walmart, Green Dot To Develop FinTech Accelerator With Omnichannel Focus

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Walmart and Green Dot have announced that they are going to develop a FinTech accelerator together and call it “TailFin Labs, LLC,” the companies said in a release. The accelerator will create new products, technologies and services that exist in the meeting place of retail shopping and consumer financial services. 1 of next year.

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What Payments Players Had To Say About Innovating Payments In A Pandemic

PYMNTS

As much as a click from the Kardashians helped spread the brand awareness and jump-start his company, Molnar said, as a spending trend among young consumers set the stage for BNPL's success. Fast-forward to the present, and Afterpay now counts more than 11 million active customers at 63,000 retailers – and most recently reported doing $2.1

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The Race To The Effortless Experience

PYMNTS

“Given the seismic shift to digital, the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing retail to achieve innovation in three to six months that would otherwise have taken three to five years. The pandemic has brought uncertainty to many businesses, but at the same time, it has sparked innovation,” said Ro Bhatia , chief operating officer at sticky.io.

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