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FitPay Founder & COO Michael Orlando Joins Bank Innovation 2018

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EXCLUSIVE- Michael Orlando, founder of FitPay, a provider of payment technology for wearables, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2018, which takes place March 5-6 in San Francisco. Orlando founded FitPay in 2014. The company went on to be acquired by security technology company Next-ID Inc.,

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Innovation Still Centers on Cards as Mobile Payments Languish

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Cards may be fumbling at the innovation game, but they’re still the center of the payments world, while mobile payments remain a geeky sideshow.

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2016 Innovators to Watch: 1 to 5

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Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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Providing Wine Consumers With eCommerce Innovations

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Wine Insiders , in one case, has combined edgy technology and innovations, and supplemented traditional marketing channels with digital advertising. 2014: The year that DRINKS , which was Wine Insiders’ chief competitor, acquired the company. All this, Today in Data. 400M: Amount of revenue Wine Insiders has brought in to date.

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Powering Retail Innovation With Digital Technology

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Data: 2014: The year Lumen was founded. In investments, retail dispute management firm Chargeback closed a funding round to speed up growth and to help retailers reduce credit card disputes. And in tech, the future of retail may include mobile scanning. All this, Today in Data.

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Bolt Nets $75 Million In Funding Round For eCommerce Innovation

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Bolt was founded in 2014 in San Francisco and works on tools to streamline web transactions. The round saw the company's valuation hit over $215 million. The round was led by General Atlantic and WestCap , and existing investors Activant Capital and Tribe Capital also participated.

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Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar

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Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .