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Watson Marketing Delivers a Competitive Edge that Financial Institutions can Bank On

Insights on Business

The worldwide banking industry experienced profound challenges during the Great Recession of 2008-2009. increasingly sophisticated security threats; and, most recently, shifting customer expectations driven in large part by millennials. While the global economy has improved, the pressure on banks is unabated.

Marketing 156
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Even with Fair’s Job Cuts, Car-Sharing Keeps Racing Forward

PYMNTS

The move came about a month after Fair, which functions via an app, secured a $500 million revolving credit facility led by Mizuho Bank. Founded in 2009, the San Francisco-based company has already received more than $400 million in total venture capital funding from investors including GV, Madrona Venture Group and actor Ashton Kutcher.

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Even With Fair’s Job Cuts, Car-Sharing Keeps Racing Forward

PYMNTS

The move comes about a month after Fair, which functions via an app, secured a $500 million revolving credit facility led by Mizuho Bank. Founded in 2009, the San Francisco-based company has already received more than $400 million in total venture capital funding from investors including GV, Madrona Venture Group and actor Ashton Kutcher.

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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. IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.0

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Who Will Disintermediate The Intermediaries?

PYMNTS

Traditional acquirers are being marginalized by technology players that provide solutions — not just payments processing — to software platforms who want more control over the end-to-end payments experience for the merchants with which they do business. To name but a few. All of these same forces are disrupting banking and lending.

Retail 117
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Facebook And Dating: It’s (Not) Complicated

PYMNTS

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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The Only Thing to Hate About Personal Finance Management Is the Term ‘PFM’

Javelin Strategy & Research

I said that in first PFM report for Javelin in 2009, and I’ve repeated it in the seven reports since, most recently in “Managing Money in the ‘Mobile-First’ Era: A Blueprint for On-the-Go Personal Finance Management.”. The simple fact is: PFM in a tab is – and always will be – a disappointment in terms of consumer adoption.