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Fintech Has A Clear Connection To Improving People's Lives, Says Morningstar's Tricia Rothschild
Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 12:25pm | 933She sings, speaks Russian, studied the Soviet empire’s fall to free market forces in person and worked as an interpreter in Lithuania. She isn’t averse to taking career advice from her kids. “I came from a small town in the middle of Wisconsin and there wasn’t anything...
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Fidelity's Jenn Samalis Embraces Fintech And The Theory Of Agile Collaboration
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 - 10:40am | 623While not averse to acquisitions, Jennifer Samalis says her fintech cohorts at Fidelity Investments like to innovate on the inside, in close contact with customers throughout the development process. "We design with the customer right there," said Samalis, senior vice president for...
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Fintech's Billion-Dollar Question, According To TD Ameritrade's John Hart
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - 12:01pm | 543John Hart was boating in the middle of a lake when the fan belt broke. He said he used a safety pin, dental floss and duct tape to get his motor running well enough to make it to shore. It was a case of think or swim. “That fix lasted for weeks,” Hart said, managing director for trading...
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Fintech Wizard Yin Luo Mines The Human Language For Hidden Meanings
Monday, May 8, 2017 - 4:18pm | 605The words people use, the way they phrase things during conference calls, in reports or in regular conversations; all contain many of the quantitative keys that make Yin Luo such a highly respected analyst. “It’s called natural language processing, using computer algorithms to, for...
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Uber Vs. Lyft: Most Dynamic Clash Since Pepsi And Coke
Sunday, May 7, 2017 - 10:50am | 761Kimberly Trautmann says Uber Technologies, Inc. vs Lyft, Inc. is the most dynamic clash of competitors since the cola wars took root more than a century ago. “It is the best example of competitive dynamics since Coke [The Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO)] and Pepsi [PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP)],”...
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Fintech's Challenge Moving Forward: Startup Survival
Friday, May 5, 2017 - 9:00am | 562Michael Marrale’s lightbulb moment came around his 10th year as an ace technology analyst at RBC Capital Markets. The field was crowded with analysts doing essentially the same thing. “Most of the information was anecdotal and not very quantitative or data driven,” said Marrale,...
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Fintech Means Freedom: Meet The VP Who Brings Pavlov And Seligman Influences To The Investment Workplace
Thursday, May 4, 2017 - 8:16am | 528As a psychologist who applies scientific principles to organizational issues, Vicki Walia finds that fintech provides positive reinforcement for consumers. Fintech, she says, is freedom. “I like the accessibility it creates. I do see it as a democratization tool,” said Walia, a senior...