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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

PYMNTS

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 2010, Blockbuster declared bankruptcy, a decade after famously telling Netflix, which then had $5 million in annual sales, to get lost when they suggested that Blockbuster buy them.

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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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Why bank branches—and human contact—are not going away any time soon

Accenture

For years, we’ve heard people proclaiming the demise of the bricks-and-mortar bank branch, supposedly swept away by customers’ mass-migration to online and—increasingly—mobile alternatives. But as our latest UK banking consumer survey— Beyond Banking —confirms, there’s still plenty of life in the bank branch.

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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. At the peak of the crisis, the delinquency rate was 10 percent in 2010, as underwater mortgages and foreclosures hit the headlines. Necessity is the mother of invention.

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KeyBank Acquires SMB Lending Tool Bolstr, Plans to Originate $2.5 Billion in Loans in 5 Years

Bank Innovation

Founded in 2010, Bolstr is a […]. The most recent example of a bank taking note of this area is KeyBank’s acquisition of Bolstr’s SMB-focused digital lending platform, which it announced this week. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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How The Digital World Will Soften The Blow Of The Coronavirus

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Museums are putting their exhibitions online for people who want to visit but are unable to currently. Educators are putting coursework online so that children quarantined at home don’t have to miss out on key aspects of their education while school is closed or students can’t get there.

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Visa’s CyberSource On The Digital Payments Evolution

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The “online version of a payments terminal” was how the media portrayed Visa ’s acquisition of CyberSource in 2010. Then, it was a very easy way to mentally place the online payments processor in what was at the time a nascent online payments ecosystem. A decade ago, he noted, most merchants were trying to “get online.”

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