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Streaming Bellwether Netflix Shows Drama Of COVID-Era Subscription Economy

PYMNTS

When streaming on-demand movies at scale became viable around 2007, a new household brand name emerged: Netflix. Secondly, its pipeline of original shows were mostly in post-production when COVID-19 shut down the entertainment industry. There was also their “suggestion” algorithm — a glimpse of the future.

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Deep Dive: Why The Pandemic Is Pushing MENA Regulators To Upgrade Open Banking, Privacy Laws

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The Dubai International Financial Centre ratified the original version of its Data Protection Law (DPL) in 2007, for example — about a year earlier than Europe’s official General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and first Payment Services Directive (PSD) launches.

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Addressing Portfolio Risk in Economic Uncertainty: Part 2 (2022)

FICO

This blog illustrates how to use FICO Resilience Index in underwriting risk management strategies during both stressed and unstressed times to maximize its return on investment. However, in the stressed economy of 2007-9, this would have aligned with a FICO Score cut-off of 720 or higher.

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LendingClub Broadens Access To Credit With Select Plus Platform

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LendingClub received more than 14 million applications for loans originated by banks last year. Select Plus provides loan applicants with seamless access to credit within the company’s current rate parameters and enables investors to access new opportunities for potentially attractive risk-adjusted returns.

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Lending Club’s Terrible Twos

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I crossed paths with Laplanche back in 2007 and wanted to back him right away,” Petrushka said. When I founded my first startup, it got me thinking — banks are middlemen that can and should be disrupted,” Laplanche noted in a 2007 interview on how he came up with the idea of Lending Club. The Billion-Dollar IPO. IPO of the year.

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Is Algae The Key to Making Biofuel A Viable, Carbon-Neutral Energy Source?

CB Insights

In order to return to a stable state, the fatty acid ejects its last carbon atom in the form of CO2 and replaces it with a hydrogen atom, returning the molecule to a stable state. The original research “An algal photoenzyme converts fatty acids to hydrocarbons” was published in Science. The end result?

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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Date: May 18, 2007. in May of 2007 to Google’s $3.1B And in the short-term, that would have looked like a good deal, as the social media site hit its peak in 2007 at a value of about $12B. Credit Suisse paid nearly three times the book value for DLJ, and got little in return. Microsoft and aQuantive. Price: $6.3B.