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Why customer acquisition is so difficult for financial startups

  • Customer acquisition is high for fintech startups, which is why the idea around competition between banks and startups has turned to partnerships
  • While startups have the ideas and the tech, banks have the customers, data and scalability -- and will need to intervene if startups are going to have any success
Tanaya Macheel | November 07, 2017
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