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California’s fintech startups are invading New York

Bank Innovation

together in 2010, there was little question about where they should put their headquarters. When two Irish brothers started Stripe Inc. It had to be California. Now, though, Stripe is leaving the tech mecca of San Francisco, awash in tech talent and investor cash, and is in the process of moving its main office about 10 […].

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America’s banking regulations strangle innovations

Chris Skinner

Only three new banks have opened in the United States since 2010.

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Slow regulations versus fast tech

Chris Skinner

Before 2010, I was writing a lot about technology but it was all heavily geared towards regulations. It was pretty dull, to be honest, but worthy. MiFID and PSD were top of mind, along with Basel III and other global, European and domestic regulations. I wrote a lot about regulations.

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Innovative Ecosystem Draws FinTech Firms To Toronto

PYMNTS

Toronto is a powerhouse for financial innovation in Canada: The city has the most sizable ecosystem for FinTech in the country, with 185 startups per one count. NorthOne , a FinTech firm that focuses on small business owners, is one of the companies that call the city home.

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Citi Ventures on the Lookout for Machine Learning Startups in 2018

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE – Since its launch in 2010, Citi Ventures has focused on investments that are strategic to its parent, the global financial services provider Citigroup. But when your parent company is a bank that spans the world, you can get involved with a lot of things.

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Fintech 1, 2 and 3.0 … there’s an elephant in the room and it’s under attack

Chris Skinner

he defined as the emergence of peer-to-peer lenders and new payments companies between 2010 and 2014. I was piqued by Victor Matarranz’s [SEVP Head of Group Strategy and Chairman’s Office, Banco Santander] presentation at MoneyConf last week, mainly because he began by talking about Fintech 1.0 versus Fintech 2.0. Fintech 1.0

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Thanksgiving Innovation 101: The Turkey

PYMNTS

There isn’t a lot of room to really innovate the Thanksgiving turkey. The Instant Pot multi cooker was the idea that ended up being the solution to both of those problems and in 2010 the first-generation product launched on Amazon. So is this innovation worth investigation? Or is there? The Instant Pot Solution.