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Digital Disruption And Creative Destruction
Global Finance rates the top financial innovations of the last 30 years, looking at where we are, where we’ve come from and how we got from there to here
Author: Gilly Wright
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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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#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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Equity Forever
Damian Glendinning, Lenovo’s treasurer, explains why the world’s biggest PC maker opted for a dual-tranche financing transaction using a perpetual security.
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Flux Favors Innovation
It’s been another crazy year, with Brexit, the election of Donald Trump as US president, tensions building up with Russia, continued strife and displacement in Syria and rising tensions in Asia, all of which are affecting global markets.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Ransomware Attack Highlights Weaknesses
For the 200,000-plus victims of the WannaCry ransomware attack, a short period of blame was replaced by awareness of the reality that complacency creates vulnerability.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Alipay Seeks Growth From Traveling Chinese
Alipay is partnering with banks around the world to provide its Chinese customers with seamless service at their preferred tourist destinations, with Italy’s UniCredit Bank following France’s BNP Paribas and Barclays in the UK.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Global Giants To Help Indias FlipKart Beat Back Competition
Facing increasing competition from Amazon and Alibaba, India’s Flipkart ecommerce platform has turned to Microsoft, Tencent and eBay for financial, technical and market support.
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South Africa Shakeup Sparks Downgrades
South Africa’s new minister of Finance, Malusi Gigaba, whose appointment brought on ratings agency downgrades, faces low confidence and slow growth.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Blockchain Passes Japan Payments Test
Japanese banks piloted domestic and cross-border payments successfully through the Cloud with Ripple.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
China Feasts on Fintech as Asia Passes The West
The Asia-Pacific region surged past North America for funding of fintech enterprises in 2016, due to blockbuster China deals.
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Payments Get Real
Corporate and banking entities are seeking faster, more secure payment systems, and experiments in the payments space are coming to fruition.