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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. FinTech managed to do that by making financial services accessible and affordable globally.

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Navigating the Digital Payment Landscape: Understanding ACH and EFT Transactions

Strategy Driven

An informed comparison between EFT and ACH differences enables smart decision-making, ensuring effective cash flow management and cost savings in various financial activities. Through such advancements, businesses and consumers can anticipate more seamless cross-border payments, which is essential for participation in the global marketplace.

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers draw a comparison with an apple seed that has the potential to grow into something great, but that potential is far from guaranteed. “We The Global Innovation Index illustrates this, as they cite the inhibiting impact a shortage of human capital is having on the innovation potential of the nation.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy. Click on the table below to see at full size.).

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Insurance Isn’t Safe from Digital Upheaval

Harvard Business Review

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

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How Big a Competitive Threat Is China, Really?

Harvard Business Review

China, by comparison, is rising in the WTO era. By comparison, China's FDI stock equals 8% of its GDP; more than 70% of that FDI consists of wholly foreign-owned enterprises (as opposed to joint ventures); and foreign firms produce half of China's exports and more than 90% of China's high-tech exports. Today, by comparison, U.S.-China

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America: Excelling at Mediocrity

Harvard Business Review

And what strikes me is how fast many parts of the globe are forging ahead — and how decrepit coming home can feel in comparison ( JFK airport , I'm looking at you ). The mightiest adversary that snaps great empires like twigs isn't chimerical "globalization" — it's glittering hubris, bedecked in the finery of denial.

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