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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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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 .

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Alibaba to Buy 33% Equity Stake in Fintech Affiliate Ant Financial

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The Alibaba Group will take a 33% equity stake in Ant Financial, it’s affiliate fintech company that operates popular mobile payments service Alipay, the group announced today.

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Banks Push Back On Possible Banking Charters For Big Techs Like Amazon And Facebook

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House committee this week began reviewing the idea of allowing the likes of Amazon or Facebook to receive charters to operate as banks — an idea that’s already gotten plenty of pushback from traditional financial institutions (FIs). This isn’t the OCC’s first attempt to create a special banking charter that would benefit tech firms.

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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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Data Enablers: SigOpt’s Machine Learning Tools Help Businesses Optimize Operations

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From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. After testing the solution out at Yelp, we joined YCombinator to launch the company in 2014 and bring this solution to experts in every field.

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Sterling Bancorp Names Leaders Of Innovation Finance Group

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Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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