West Monroe (September 9)
“Legacy banks are at an inflection point.” Today, banks ”are no longer just competing with each other, but rather a sprawling field of fintechs, embedded finance players, and tech firms—all of which are delivering faster, cheaper, and more intuitive financial services. The field is fragmented, but the pattern is clear: customers now expect their bank to act like a digital platform, not just a financial service provider.”
Tags: Cheaper, Competing, Customers, Digital platform, Embedded finance, Faster, Financial services, Fintechs, Fragmented, Inflection point, Intuitive, Legacy banks, Tech firms
Institutional Investor (August 5)
Series A and B is the “inflection point…. where institutional capital typically expects clarity; clinical data, market readiness, and a signal that someone else has de-risked the science. But in women’s health, those signals often do not arrive. Not because the companies aren’t progressing but because the validation layers that used to feed the pipeline e.g. public grants, translational studies, pilot programs have eroded.” Because validation doesn’t arrive, “promising science stalls, not because of bad data, but because no one wants to be first.”
Tags: Clarity, Clinical data, De-risked, Inflection point, Institutional capital, Market readiness, Pilot programs, Promising, Public grants, Science, Series A and B, Signals, Stalls, Validation, Women’s health
Time (March 24)
“The unveiling of DeepSeek R1, China’s most advanced AI model to date, signals a dangerous inflection point in the global AI race.” It should be “a wake-up call for American leadership. What’s at stake isn’t merely economic competitiveness but also the most geopolitically precarious technology since the nuclear age.”
Tags: Advanced, AI model, China, Dangerous, DeepSeek R1, Economic competitiveness, Global AI race, Inflection point, Leadership, Nuclear age, Precarious, Technology, U.S., Unveiling, Wake-up call
Washington Post (October 26)
“The coronavirus pandemic numbers have been going the wrong direction for more than a month, topping 80,000 newly confirmed infections daily across the country, with hospitalizations rising in more than three dozen states and deaths creeping upward. Now, the United States is barreling toward another inflection point: a holiday season dictated by the calendar and demanded by tradition.”
Tags: 000, 80, Confirmed, Coronavirus, Deaths, Holiday season, Hospitalizations, Infections, Inflection point, Pandemic
WARC (August 27)
“Lockdowns have lasted longer than the 66 days research suggests it takes to form a new habit – so 2020 really will be an inflection point when we witness a paradigm shift.” COVID-19 has overturned our entrenched attitudes and assumptions, “halting much of what we have taken for granted, imposing new ways of living our lives and creating new boundaries.”
Tags: 2020, 66 days, Assumptions, COVID-19, Entrenched attitudes, Habit, Inflection point, Lockdowns, Overturned, Paradigm shift, Research
Institutional Investor (January 21)
“For more than half a decade, a seemingly irresistible momentum has been building around the idea that finance and technology are converging at a historical inflection point, a combination of business transformation and competitive disruption that has come to be labeled fintech.” Fintech “has legs,” making a “2000-style crash” unlikely. Still, fintech is not immune to cyclical decline, may be approaching frothy levels, and carries other risks as well.
Tags: Cyclical decline, Disruption, Finance, Fintech, Froth, Inflection point, Momentum, Risks, Technology, Transformation
