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Searching for the Priceline of Fintech after Lending Market Meltdown Week

Bank Innovation

You could have bought Priceline stock below $10 in 2001. For many years you had little to show for it. From then until 2008, you had some appreciation, but not much. Then the stock shot up above $1,000 (as of writing it is $1,261). Yes that is 100x return from Read More.

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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

The bank that will be around in the next 50 years will be one that develops the ability to build infrastructure now that allows for efficient innovation in the future. Banks need to evaluate new technology, new lending areas, and new cash management levels to name a few with a longer time horizon and with some process rigor.

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Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies

PYMNTS

That year, two grocery store owners opened a small business to help merchants trade financial information that would make it easier for all of them to access that information and make lending decisions. The credit score itself, the FICO score, was an innovation brought to market in 1989 by the Fair Isaac Corporation.

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Data Dive, Farewells Edition: Apple, Chase, SoFi, Uber

PYMNTS

iTunes dominated after its 2001 release by putting two things in one place that had never existed before: a digital MP3 player that actually worked, properly paired with a store that made accessing music for a small fee much easier than trying to pirate it. Meanwhile, Jain is the face of SoFi to banks that package its loans into securities.

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FICO Celebrates 30th Anniversary of the FICO Score

FICO

This was not only innovative at the time, but it allowed lenders to have the confidence that they could use the score, regardless of which bureau it came from. One outcome of the growing acceptance of the FICO® Score in lending was that consumers became more aware of us. Innovation has always been at the core of the FICO® Score.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. High-tech employment fell from 12.1

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Date: September 3, 2001. Microsoft and Nokia. Price: $7.9B.

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