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Kia Rolls Out Connected Car Subscriptions Via Zuora Platform

PYMNTS

The shift to subscriptions is intended to offer a seamless connected car through innovation, convenience and simplicity. Kia’s limited UVO service started in 2009, but it needed the right infrastructure to launch a mass-market version. Kia picked Zuora due to its smooth user experience and flexibility.

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Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution

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More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens.

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Reimagining the first line of defense with next-gen GRC

Insights on Business

The global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 brought a renewed focus on the governance, risk and compliance (GRC) processes within the financial institutions, who, not very long ago, viewed GRC as little more than a necessary evil – cost of doing business, which added little value.

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Who Will Disintermediate The Intermediaries?

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In 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman , an innovation that made music both portable and personalized. That was until Amazon branched out of books and niche players like Etsy provided a different and better product selection with a cleaner user experience less than a decade later. And two more things.

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Facebook And Dating: It’s (Not) Complicated

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Friendster shut down five years later in 2009 , owing its lack of success to technology challenges that made the user experience slow and cumbersome in the face of a more powerful and focused Facebook challenger that launched two years after they did.

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Fenergo Brings its Client Lifecycle Management Innovations to ABN AMRO

Fintech Labs Insights

ABN AMRO’s Helène Erftemeijer elaborated on the role Fenergo’s technology will play in helping the bank improve the user experience for its clients. And in March, the company partnered with BBVA, Spain’s second largest bank and a widely-known, eager adopter of innovative financial technologies.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

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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