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#2 Mobile Payments

Starbucks generates 27% of its US sales via mobile payments, as consumers opt for contactless coffee. While there were efforts to provide banking through cell phones in the late 90s, the transition, around 2007, from cellphones to smartphones—with their expanded ...

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#3 Ecommerce

Ebay leaders Meg Whitman, Bill Cobb, and Rajiv Dutta at an eBay Live event in 2007. Photo by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. Ten years before Jeff Bezos left a New York hedge fund to start selling books over the Internet ...

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#4 ETFs

Nathan Most, at the Amex, and Kathy Cuocolo, at State Street, were key players in the creation of SPDRs.

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#5 Black-Scholes-Merton And Algorithms

Left to right: Robert Merton, Myron Scholes and Fisher Black Markets are known to be risky, but what if you could design insurance that would protect against losses?

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#6 Asset-Backed Securities & Exotic Derivatives

Professor Michael Greenberger testifying, in 2010, at a Congressional inquiry into the causes of the 2008 financial crisis. The 1980s ushered in an era of exotic financial products that were hailed for fostering new ways to manage risk.

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#7 Online Trading Platforms

The story of online trading platforms really starts May 1, 1975, when the Securities and Exchange Commission broke the Wall Street cartel and eliminated the practice of fixed brokerage commissions.

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#8 High-Frequency Trading

Most of the frantic pit jobs were displaced by digital technology, which pushed trading to warp speed, well beyond the capacity of humans.

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#9 Blockchain

First developed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto—whose identity remains a mystery—as a public ledger for all bitcoin transactions, blockchain is now outshining the cryptocurrency it underpins as it offers banks and others the benefits of a distributed ledger, i.e., an ...

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APIs Alive

This year, we have honorees across a range of product areas that all aim to either help make their clients’ lives easier or make it easier for the banks themselves to foster innovation.

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Bad Ideas

Reknowned economist James K. Galbraith, one of our expert panelists, pulls no punches in talking about the damage wrought by financial innovation

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Bahrain Launches National E-Wallet

The Central Bank of Bahrain will launch the kingdom’s first electronic wallet by the end of June, “an important step in enhancing the financial sector by providing innovative payment solutions aimed at both public and private sectors,” says Salman bin ...

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Botswana: In The Zones

The sub-Saharan nation taps special zones to draw foreign direct investment.