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A disruptive innovation appears

Chris Skinner

I was listening to a financier talking about FinTech the other day, and claiming that they are all sustaining innovations and not disruptive. They were referring to Clayton Christensen’s innovator’s dilemma discussions, where Professor Christensen points to different markets that were destroyed by disruptors.

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Charles Potts: Assesing potential fintech partners

Independent Banker

Photo by Rido/Adobe Maximizing each step in the innovation journey, including the fintech evaluation process, will set you on the right path to a fruitful fintech partnership. By Charles Potts, ICBA When it comes to innovation, understanding how we do it may be even more important than why.

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Banks Should Look Within for Fintech Entrepreneurs

Bank Innovation

Banks spend a great deal of time, money, and energy building technology to compete with fintech companies, but the CEO of innovation software maker Spigit has a message: Don’t bother. “You’re too late,” Spigit CEO Scott Raskin told Bank Innovation, referring to the banks.”By Why is that?

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Cambodia, Singapore In X-Border FinTech Pact

PYMNTS

Cross-border FinTech efforts have seen increasing participation from central banks and monetary authorities. The MOU dictates that the banks will train FinTech startups with an eye on cross-border transactions. The Fed And FinTech Firms. The banks have also agreed to share data on emerging markets.

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Fintechs Are No Threat to Banks — But Amazon and Alibaba Are

Bank Innovation

The biggest threat for the banking sector is not fintechs. The report refers to these companies as “platform companies” and calls them the “new heavyweight competitor(s) in town,” for the banking sector. No, according to a recent report by McKinsey, that would be non-banking companies such as Amazon and Alibaba.

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Singapore Eyes ‘Bringing Together’ Banks And FinTech Firms

PYMNTS

In the coexisting — and sometimes colliding — worlds of FinTech and traditional financial services, a bit of collaboration often evolves. As reported by Bloomberg , the regulator at the helm of Singapore’s financials has embraced an effort to “bring together” FinTech firms and banks there.

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Why Not All FinTech Providers Are FinTech Firms

PYMNTS

And sometimes, terms get thrown about interchangeably — when, really, they refer to very different things. Such is the case in financial services, where “ FinTech ” is often used to describe financial technology vendors. “A The Promise of FinTech. New Delivery, Not New Products.

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