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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

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Last week, I spoke at The Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering in NYC about how emerging markets (and Africa in particular) are leapfrogging innovation in the financial services sector. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

thebarefootvc

Last week, I spoke at The Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering in NYC about how emerging markets (and Africa in particular) are leapfrogging innovation in the financial services sector. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Swipely is focused on payment marketing, namely unifying loyalty programs and payments for main street merchants. If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g.

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