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3 Ways Fintechs are Helping Financial Institutions Fight Fraud

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The new capability provides a way to validate return consumers online in less than two seconds with just a selfie. ” A Finovate alum since 2011, Experian most recently demoed its technology at FinovateFall in New York in 2018. Here are a trio of stories highlighting the latest efforts by fintechs to combat financial crime.

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Gwynnie Bee Offers Subscription Services For Traditional Retailers

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According to news from TechCrunch , the platform — called “CaaStle” (Clothing as a Service) — handles all aspects of the subscription business, including the website, databases, cleaning, returns, packing, shipping and more. With CaaStle, retailers send Gwynnie Bee their inventory, and the platform takes care of everything else.

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Apple/Disney: Is Apple About To Make The Happiest Acquisition On Earth?

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After Disney bought Pixar, the logic held that it was only a matter of time before Apple returned the favor and bought Disney. That’s when former Disney CEO Bob Iger noted in his autobiography that had Jobs not died in 2011, a Disney/Apple combination might have happened after all. By contrast, Disney+ is not off to a slow start.

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From Instagram To Slack: 9 Successful Startup Pivots

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After a brief launch in 2011, Glitch was returned to beta and by 2012, Butterfield declared the concept wasn’t viable. It was originally a dating site that allowed singles to upload videos of themselves talking about what they wanted in a partner. His company, Tiny Speck, began developing a game called Glitch.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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LCA and Laplanche, along with former CFO Dolan, were also charged with improperly adjusting fund returns. Investors have returned to the platform in larger numbers, but loan volume and revenue have seen sluggish growth until very recently. The DOJ Finding. Those effects, however, were short-lived. lending marketplace.

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Turning Fashion By The Numbers Into A Billion-Dollar Business

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Since its founding in 2011, Stitch Fix has had a difficult challenge: how to ship customers clothing that matches both their size and taste preferences once a month, without the client ever having to be present for a measurement or inventory check. The simple answer, is data (of course) but in Stitch Fix’s case there is a lot of data in play.

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Netflix Everywhere Is Not The Same For Everyone

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The feat is particularly impressive when considering that the company was nearly dead in the water as recently as 2011. an issue unique to that country (and other developing nations like it) is that Netflix, with its catalog of American-derived content that everyone knows and loves ( Pee-Wee Herman returns today!)

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