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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. In 2007, Netflix introduced streaming services to further scratch that consumer itch. In the book, he freely admits that his formula might not work for every company.

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

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And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. Student debt was at $545 billion at the end of 2007, just ahead of the financial crisis, and now stands at more than $1.5 Necessity is the mother of invention.

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What’s Changed in the 10 Years Since Quant Quake? Not Much.

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Ten years ago today, in the months leading to the start of the global recession, the ‘Quant Quake’ of August 10, 2007 shook Wall Street. But what’s changed since the Quant Crash of 2007? To the contrary, there are more copy cats today than there were in 2007.

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Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors

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The innovation touted 10 years ago, that has garnered billions of dollars of venture capital (VC) funding, hasn’t turned out to be the “internet of money” as advertised. In those pieces, I acknowledged bitcoin as an interesting, even fascinating, innovation. Innovation By Any Other Name. It isn’t because it won’t.

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Decoupled Debit — Again?

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The year is 2007. Analysts at the time called this product “an historic opportunity” to bolster the merchant’s “corroding bottom lines,” and innovators rushed to build new applications to help them seize it. Just like 2000, and then again in 2007 with the initial hype over decoupled debit. And what was the product?

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LendingClub Broadens Access To Credit With Select Plus Platform

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“This is a huge step forward in our evolution as we continue to unlock the power of the marketplace model to generate access and, ultimately, savings for borrowers by finding and matching the right capital sources with the right borrowers,” said Chief Capital Officer Valerie Kay in the announcement.

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Bidco Agrees To Acquire Paysafe In All-Cash Deal

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The buyout value of the combined issued and to-be-issued ordinary share capital is approximately £2.96 The Paysafe Independent Directors believe that Paysafe will continue to play a key role in payments innovation, leveraging the state-of-the-art technology it has built over a number of years.”.

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