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A YouTube Marketing Primer with Pixability

In MarketingTags Pixability, YouTubePublish DateFebruary 11, 2015

Both video consumption and advertising on YouTube are on an impressive trajectory. Pixability is an ad buying and video marketing platform for YouTube. Many of the world’s top brands and agencies depend on Pixability’s award-winning programmatic …

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All About AXA Lab

In Innovation, InsuranceTags AXA, Silicon ValleyPublish DateFebruary 6, 2015

AXA is a well-known holding company for a collection of international insurance and financial services firms, including AXA US. AXA has 102 million clients in 56 countries around the world. It is the number one global …

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Trends in FinTech Recruiting with David Boehmer of Heidrick & Struggles – Part 2

In FinTechTags Heidrick, London, recruitingPublish DateFebruary 2, 2015

This is part two of a two part interview with David Boehmer, Regional Managing Partner of the Financial Services Practice for Europe and Africa at Heidrick & Struggles. He is based in London. (Part one in here: http://j.mp/1CvlIiX.) …

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Trends in FinTech Recruiting with David Boehmer of Heidrick & Struggles – Part 1

In FinTechTags Heidrick, London, recruitingPublish DateJanuary 27, 2015

FinTech is hot. It’s attracting entrepreneurs and increasingly large amounts of capital. We all know that finding the right talent – whether CTO, CMO, CEO, head of product, head of sales – is a key to …

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That Was the Year That Was

In FinTechTags Boston, startupsPublish DateJanuary 2, 2015

It’s time once again for our first annual Greater Boston FinTech year in funding review. 2014 saw roughly $194 million invested in private financial technology companies, a substantial jump from roughly $86 million in 2013. But, …

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Disrupting Insurance with Friendsurance

In InsuranceTags Friendsurance, Germany, P2PPublish DateNovember 13, 2014

Are we about to see a flowering of P2P insurance startups? In France, insPeer was recently named a finalist in des Grands Prix de l’Innovation de la Ville de Paris. Not yet ready to launch (and …

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Interview with Claire Cockerton, CEO of Innovate Finance

In Accelerators, FinTechTags Innovate Finance, London, P2P LendingPublish DateNovember 4, 2014

Innovate Finance is the brand new industry body for the FinTech community in the UK. It is member-driven and aims to accelerate the UK’s position in global financial services by directly supporting the next era of …

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2nd Annual Boston FinTech Meetup Demo Night

In FinTech, StartupsTags Boston, MassChallengePublish DateOctober 15, 2014

The Boston FinTech Meetup group held its second demo night Tuesday, with six companies presenting to a standing room only audience at the IBM Innovation Center in Kendall Square. Here’s a rundown of the presenters, in …

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Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator

In Accelerators, Banking, Venture CapitalTags startups, Wells FargoPublish DateSeptember 25, 2014

The Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator is a semiannual boot camp for young companies that will help them commercialize their ideas and begin selling effectively into the enterprise marketplace and/or the financial services vertical. Wells Fargo is seeking …

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the 3D FinTech Challenge

In FinTech, Institutional Asset ManagementTags accelerators, Dassault, LondonPublish DateAugust 19, 2014

Every week seems to bring the announcement of another accelerator for financial technology startups. But I was particularly interested to read that French software company Dassault Systemes will sponsor a FinTech accelerator in London later this year. …

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