Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

TEL AVIV — PayKey, an intriguing Israeli startup that lets banks offer payments on any social media platform — and we mean any — won the demo contest at Bank Innovation Israel 2016 here this week. PayKey beat out 12 other finalists at the DEMOvation Challenge at Bank Innovation Israel, Read More.

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MAY 1, 2020

advertisers probably won’t “like” its subpar rating from a media industry watchdog. The Media Rating Council (MRC) review found that the California-based social media giant has failed to address advertisers’ concerns arising from an Ernst & Young audit over how it measures and reports data about video advertisements. .

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 15, 2016

Bank Innovation Israel 2016 registration has officially opened today. The only Western fintech event in Startup Nation, the 2016 Bank Innovation Israel will take place 1-3 November at the Dan Tel Aviv. The event is presented by Bank Innovation, one of the world’s leading fintech blogs.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The panel of judges — Scarlett Sieber of BBVA; Sam Maule of Carlisle & Gallagher; Ryan Falvey of the Center for Financial Services Innovation; Matt Wilcox of Fiserv; and Phil Ryan of Bank Innovation — will decide which company is worthy of the “Best in Show” DEMOvation crown at Bank Innovation 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Facebook may be under fire for how it handles the data on its more than two billion monthly active users, but the social media company has been trying to get its hands on financial information from the financial services firms for years, reported The Wall Street Journal.

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MARCH 13, 2017

70 percent of SMEs didn’t use tax software in 2016 , found Office Depot in its most recent Small Business Index survey. sought external financing in 2016 , suggesting these firms simply aren’t interested in lending technologies or accessing, for instance, a loan from an alternative finance provider. 37 percent of SMEs in the U.K.

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Accenture

APRIL 26, 2017

Given that this trend is coinciding in with an ongoing shift by younger consumers towards more innovative channels—the likes of wearables, social media and instant messaging—it’s possible that the continued strong usage of branches is a transitory effect. But our study gives no indication of that.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Amid data sharing and online privacy controversies, Facebook recently promoted on billboards what Bloomberg called the social media operator’s “new approach to user safety and privacy.” McDonald’s and Apple also held the top two spots in 2016. percent year-over-year growth rate in 2016 or the 4.6 Examples abound.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer of Facebook, is pushing back against two antitrust lawsuits filed against the social media giant, CNBC reported on Friday (Dec. percent of proposed mergers from 2008 to 2016. Sandberg said approved mergers shouldn’t later be revoked. .

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JULY 24, 2019

The SEC began probing Facebook after revelations that Cambridge Analytica , a data-analytics firm that had ties to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, got access to information on millions of Facebook users. The new case was over whether the social media firm violated that decree not. .

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2018

National Australia Bank set up its own alternative lending arm called QuickBiz Loans back in 2016. Large banks, e-commerce moguls like Amazon and eBay and tech firms are likely to enter the alternative lending space, and soon, according to Eden Amirav, co-founder, and CEO of startup LendingExpress. Over the […].

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APRIL 18, 2017

One company that has received a fair share of media attention on the topic of chat commerce is social media giant Facebook. 2016 that it would be allowing the 30,000 and growing chatbots to accept payments. Potentially, the uprising of chat commerce may have the opportunity to entirely overtake the app economy.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Messaging apps are eating the world — and in the case of WeChat, even the payments world. Texting plans in China are quite expensive, so messaging apps play a more important role there in simply communicating than elsewhere. WeChat, developed by the corporation Tencent, numbers more than 650 million users Read More.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2016

We can all agree Credit Karma, Chase Mobile, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PayPal aren’t leaving the Top Ten on App Annie anytime soon. But ratings and rankings aren’t everything — there’s also the cool factor. How easy is the app to use? Does it makes us feel good (even Read More.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does. We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Elections, first made international headlines when it was discovered in 2018 that Cambridge Analytica stole information on some 87 million Facebook users after being hired by President Trump’s 2016 election campaign. The psychographic profiling of U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Facebook’s acquisition of Servicefriend is expected to help the social media giant roll out its cryptocurrency Libra in 2020. In 2016, bots let users talk to businesses on Messenger. Startup Servicefriend builds bots to facilitate customer service using AI messaging apps. . “We Bots have not been easy for Facebook.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We know almost US$1 billion was invested in PSD2-enabled services in 2016, up 200 percent from the year before¹. Based on this survey of over 2,000 consumers, it’s clear that online retailers, tech firms and social-media players face an uphill battle to convince consumers to allow them access to their financial data. So why not?

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JANUARY 25, 2019

In 2016, customers took to social media to complain about a similar thing. Some customers complained that they’d been charged for orders they didn’t make, including one case in particular worth almost £1,000. This is not the first time that Deliveroo has dealt with this issue, either.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

New York was rocking the fintech this week, from Next Money and BBVA Open Talent to Finovate Fall. Tune in to Brett King and company below to hear the fintech insider perspective.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Citing people familiar with the matter, Cheddar reported that the device, which is the social media giant’s first major entrance into the hardware market, is being marketed as a way for friends and families to connect via video chat and social features, rather than a voice-controlled speaker.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Of course in recent years, bots have been given a bad name, due to Russian bots bombarding social media outlets during the 2016 election. “Before, they were limited to one or two areas. Today, they’re pretty much everywhere.”.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Social media is a terrific breeding ground for travel envy — there is no faster way to find yourself wishing you were in a more exotic, warmer and more pleasant climate than to view someone else’s social media images of already being there. In 2016 China opened the world’s highest and longest glass platform.

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JUNE 26, 2017

In the US, the result is that banks are now beginning to fade from the mortgage landscape, with non-banks occupying six out of the top 10 origination spots in 2016, up from just two in 2011¹. Wall Street Journal, November 2, 2016. Read the report.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 28, 2016

Bank Innovation INV, this blog’s fintech accelerator, is pleased to today to announce the six extraordinary startups that have been admitted to its inaugural class.

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JUNE 19, 2019

In an appearance at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said the social media platform didn’t anticipate the foreign interference that sought to disrupt the U.S. presidential election in 2016, but has since put up safeguards against misinformation.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

politician said Facebook was aware that Russian-linked organizations were harvesting data from the social media giant, since October 2014, according to Bloomberg. Facebook previously said it was unaware of the activity until after the 2016 election.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Live video strategy engages viewers in immediate and authentic ways that other social media formats cannot,” the company added, noting that 28 percent of marketers said they planned to invest more money in the tech this year. New Uses For Existing Tech . According to Vimeo, there were more than 1.1

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Pinterest is the fastest-growing costume influencer on social media at 17 percent, but the social media site has seen 133 percent growth since 2012. Pop culture is at 16 percent, and print media influences 14 percent of all costume decisions.

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JANUARY 1, 2019

Among the most anticipated are IPOs that will impact the mobility-as-a-service and ride-hailing ecosystems, social media, and data analytics. company that sells data analytics software (and which in 2016 bought data visualization firm Silk, another sign of Palantir’s intentions)? consumer ridesharing market.

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MARCH 2, 2020

The survey also found that social media won’t add much to any KPIs. It was rated as contributing only moderate value to company performance figures, and has been flat since 2016. Thirty percent of marketers now report the ability to prove the impact of social media on company performance, up from 18 percent in 2017.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Currently, about 30 percent of all online sales in Southeast Asia in 2016 occurred through social networks, like Facebook, Instagram and Line (Naver Corp.’s Additionally, 80 percent of shoppers in Southeast Asia used social media to research items and contact sellers. says market research firm GlobalWebIndex.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

The social media giant has admitted to Congress that it provided companies with special access to user data. We’re a very different company today than we were in 2016, or even a year ago,” he wrote. “To To be clear, addressing these issues is more than a one-year challenge.

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APRIL 26, 2019

The New York State Attorney General (AG) is reportedly launching an investigation into social media giant Facebook , focusing on the its past practice of collecting more than 1.5 The practice ended in May of 2016, but Facebook maintained access to the email address books of the 1.5 million email address books of users.

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JULY 28, 2019

Stamos led Facebook’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Part of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, the Observatory is a cross-disciplinary initiative comprised of research, teaching and policy engagement addressing the abuse of today’s information technologies, with a particular focus on social media.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Bitfinex announced a reward for anyone who can put the cryptocurrency exchange in touch with the hackers who made a transfer of nearly 120,000 bitcoins in 2016, according to a statement.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Back then, he had warned executives at the social media company of the potentially damaging impact of Facebook’s data sharing policies. Financial Times highlighted a 2016 blog post in which Parakilas warned about the impact of social media. “We In 2017, Parakilas provided the U.K.

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