Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 22, 2024

Back in the summer of 2007 we had a simple vision for the first Finovate event. Wysh: Emerging player in the wish-list market, innovative features attracting young demographics, growth driven by effective social media use. QuickFi: Continues to innovate in mobile-first financing for business equipment, gaining strong foothold in U.S.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

One of the paradoxes of the early digital banking era (1995 to 2007) was why Capital One was a laggard? Fast-forward six years and Capital One owns the innovation mantle, at least in the United States. Its latest innovation? It’s still a relatively manual user experience, especially if you want to dispute a charge.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 24, 2016

Looking back at the demos from 2007 , the major trends were PFM, text alerts, and bill payment. Next month at FinovateFall in New York, we’re going to see some things that, compared to 2007, seem like the way the Jetsons would manage their finances.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Netflix pre-2007 was a manual, paper-based system — relying entirely on manual shipping, manual returns and absolutely no customer self-service. By the time the mid-2000s rolled around, Netflix’s stock price had plateaued, and innovation was needed to take its business to another level. The Customer Experience.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 26, 2016

According to Ryan Caldwell, MX Founder and CEO, landing MacDonald is a big win for the Utah-based company: “Don brings the rare combination of a seasoned and proven marketing leader with the passion and drive of a true innovator. Kight is founder of Checkfree and served as the company’s CEO until it sold to Fiserv in 2007.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 2, 2016

In an interview with TechCrunch , Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand said, “At the end of the day, UnboundID has one of the world’s best customer-facing user directories.” Durand added, “Once we incorporate this into our platform and have capabilities to store user profiles, it allows us to innovate in ways we couldn’t before.”

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 14, 2016

May 2015 demo: MoneyAmigo debuted its new platform that brings financial services to the underbanked and underserved, delivering traditional banking products in an innovative way. What they’ve been up to: July 2015: Won “Most Personalized Banking Experience” award from EPAM at the 2015 Citi Mobile Challenge in EMEA.

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CB Insights

JULY 31, 2017

Since 2007, the company has made 77 acquisitions, including 8 last year and 7 in 2015. Cybersecurity is an area of focus for Facebook, which has recently been publishing job solicitations for people with experience in investigating and analyzing online threat actors, tactics, and techniques.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Allowing users to “cut” by referring other users was an innovative idea, and it worked. Mint had a more internal mechanism for showing that value — an algorithm that took a user’s financial information and sorted and categorized it upon first use of the product. The more people you refer, the faster you move up.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 5, 2016

These 10 companies range from payments innovators and security specialists to alt-lending platforms and mobile banking app builders – and even include a pair of alums that have earned multiple Best of Show awards. Founded in 2007. Michael Laven is CEO. $35 35 million raised. identity ( FF16 ). Founded in 2014. InSpirAVE ( FF16 ).

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Founded: May 2007. How can you preserve the digital user experience? debut with its innovative e-form management system, the eximee™ Platform, eximee.com , at the September FinovateFall 2016 conference in New York. Getting ready to talk about two customer experiences. Product Demoed: mobileBanker. Biometrics?

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Groupon’s IPO in 2011 was the biggest IPO by a US web company since Google had gone public in 2007. In 2007, Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell seeded The Point with $1M. Lefkofsky noticed some users had used the platform to buy something together in a big group and get a discount. stake was worth about $2.5B. Source: Statista).

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Founded in 2007, Bonobos is the oldest company on our list of direct-to-consumer success stories. I think about disruption as being a way to innovate and so blatantly change things for the better that you become an industry standard. This was 2007, so buying clothes online wasn’t new — but there was still friction there.

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