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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Lucaciu is the chief technology officer of Adore Me , an eCommerce and brick-and-mortar retailer that has adjusted to disruptive changes in its market, including the bankruptcy of the parent company of Victoria’s Secret. Since it was founded in 2012, the company has grown to a team of 140 employees across the U.S.

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MARCH 20, 2020

payments platform Ebury and Portuguese bank Crédito Agrícola (CA) have forged a partnership to allow the bank to work with more customers online and in a wider range of currencies, Ebury announced Thursday (March 19). Duarte Líbano Monteiro, country manager for Ebury Portugal, said the company was happy to be working with CA.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

My heart goes out to the hard working professionals who run the Treasury Services or “Cash Management” divisions at community banks. Yet for more than a decade, cash management professionals have shown their resiliency. But lately, there are deeper lines and fatigued expressions on the faces of cash management professionals.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Swedish peer-to-peer (P2P) lending upstart Lendify has reportedly secured $115 million of funding, while international trade platform Contour has teamed with information technology (IT) solutions firm Mphasis. The Hong Kong sale is being managed by Citigroup, China International Capital Corp.,

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

Here’s the latest news from the technology industry, which is coming under increasing scrutiny from governments around the world. France Hits Amazon, Google With $164 Million in Penalties for Alleged Cookie Violations. The legislation does not specify the manner in which a payment would be handled.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Aided by technology – and emboldened by the rise of cryptocurrencies – fraudsters are stepping up ransomware campaigns. The threat actors realized they can amplify their impact by targeting specific companies such as managed service providers,” said Bennett. Payment terms have been higher, too.

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APRIL 12, 2019

It was a good day for Jumia Technologies on Friday (April 12) — and that’s a good signal about the future prospects of eCommerce in Africa, home to some 1.3 Founded in 2012, Jumia became the first African unicorn startup in 2016 after a $326 million funding round that included Goldman Sachs, AXA and MTN. billion, according to reports.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies alerted Google to the cyberattack on Aug. Online reviews company Yelp is saying Google broke its promise to stop using content from third-party websites without their permission. 7, and the apps were removed from the store. Yelp Raises Alarm. Google agreed in Dec.

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JUNE 5, 2017

Starting at the company in 2012 as Macy’s VP of engineering, Anwar founded MacysLabs. Mike Robinson also rose through the ranks at Macy’s and was just named the executive VP of product management and customer experience. Macy’s CEO, Jeff Gennette, commented on these two new strategic hires.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

A $5 million funding round led by Steadfast Capital and other existing backers will help Sourcery strengthen the technology behind its invoicing and B2B payments capabilities, the company announced. The funding will also be used to develop an accounts receivable solution for vendors receiving payment via the Sourcery platform.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Honey began in 2012 as a way for consumers to easily locate savings while shopping online. Online platforms have to ensure that product listings on their sites are properly verified, as the fallout from failing to do so even once can have devastating impacts. House Committee Passes Bill to End Federal Marijuana Prohibition.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Existing investors in the company include CMIG Leasing, China Minsheng Investment Group, Tiger Global Management and CLSA. It was founded in 2012 and said that it handles $500 million in loans every month for 4 million borrowers in retail. Dianrong is headquartered in Shanghai and it’s a privately held company.

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JANUARY 6, 2017

Ellison-Taylor, chairman of the AICPA , recently noted that technology tops her list of the most important trends shaping 2017 because it will drive so many of the profession’s opportunities and challenges in the year ahead. But how are accountants supposed to keep up with all of the technological trends ?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

According to Financial Times , Parakilas monitored privacy and policy compliance of software developers for Facebook for 18 months before he left in October of 2012. At Apple, he will work with the privacy team as a product manager, people familiar with the matter told Financial Times.

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JUNE 3, 2020

Curing payment pains associated with complicated medical billing gets to the heart of how payments technology is moving medical money in smarter, faster ways. Paper checks may become a thing of the past if healthcare’s trend toward modernization continues,” according to the new report.

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MAY 25, 2016

million in a Series A funding round to further develop its in-store display technology. More resources will enable us to continue serving the growing needs of our current customer base, who want to expand their use of eyeQ technologies,” said CEO Michael Garel. Shopper intelligence platform eyeQ announced that it has secured $3.5

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MAY 5, 2017

Formerly known as Creditera, Nav, which offers small businesses an online platform through which they can find financing, announced a $13 million addition to its previously announced $25 million Series B funding round, bringing the total raised for this round up to $38 million. SME Lending. W2 Global Data. YL Ventures.

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Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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MAY 10, 2018

The early consultants changed that by using market research and data analysis combined with niche expertise to help companies manage their supply chains, improve their product positioning, and enter new markets to beat their competitors. From one perspective, the position of management consulting as an industry has never seemed more secure.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

But there’s another reason why the neo-challengers are so front-of-mind: They’re industry leaders in cultivating technology innovation and optimising customer service and experience. They also deliver innovative, easy-to-use apps that help users with things like managing their daily budget or travelling abroad. What the future holds.

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MARCH 14, 2017

While the retail technology space has boomed just as quickly as commerce moved online, some sectors still relied on older management systems and tactics well after others had upgraded. “In Hariharan was tasked to work on developing technologies to move Amazon’s strategy and decision-making out of spreadsheets.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Consumers have been banking online for 28 years. The first, online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. 7,270 $4,100 4 Revolut 3004 2015 London 11,460,000 $1,700 5 Chime 2727 2012 SF 10,710,000 2.6 2 $520 12 Acorns 613 2012 LA 2,170,000 2.3

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JUNE 1, 2020

Losing customers can be as easy as experiencing one too many online glitches, however, which can drive clients into the competition’s arms. The challenger bank has run on a cloud banking model since its 2012 launch and is available for business and consumer use in 30 European markets, including Austria, Germany and the Netherlands.

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APRIL 21, 2016

One of the biggest stories of the holiday season was the hit that legacy department stores took when warm winter weather and continued consumer moves toward online retailers disrupted everything from revenue streams to inventory management. The strength of a company’s brand equity can have direct business and financial outcomes.”.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

The “Facebook-Google duopoly” has crashed funding for advertising technology start-ups to five-year lows, according to reports emerging this morning. The slowdown also became more pronounced as the year went on; Q4 saw only 69 adtech deals, the lowest it has been since 2012. billion in 2013, and only $2.2

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JUNE 11, 2020

A company called Buy It Installed , which launched in 2012, is ready to help the less skilled consumer with the task. The company allows online and offline consumers to purchase products with installation included, and then uses connecting technology to facilitate the assembly with an installation service provider.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Coinbase last reported a valuation of more than $8 billion as of October 2018, when it raised $300 million in a Series E round led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Wellington Management, Andreessen Horowitz and other firms. “We Rival online pet supply firm Chewy staged a successful IPO last year.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Since its founding in 2012, the firm has specifically distinguished itself in a crowded field of tech-based underwriters, with its focus on the consumer group it calls the “underbanked middle class.”. Avant’s consumer-facing product is devised as a digital alternative to that market. This is the bank’s product backed up by our brand.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

The launch, he noted, allows PayPal merchants to offer installment payments to their shoppers without any new or different technological integration. Afterpay is in a unique position to extend and deepen the relationship with our customers and help them to manage their money more seamlessly through savings and budgeting tools.

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MAY 7, 2020

In fact, pre-crisis, Simon had invested $1 billion per year since 2012 on recasting its top malls as destinations, building office space and hotels into the mix as anchor tenants. With online shopping gaining even more popularity with the pandemic, we can expect it to take even more business from malls.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

According to research from the Fed , the number of paper checks being used dropped by more than 50 percent between 2000 and 2012, as the use of new payment methods, like cards and mobile wallets, more than tripled. But what if you could pay your rent with modern technology and earn perks and rewards in the process?

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Private technology companies in Latin America have raised over $5.8B in funding since 2012. in deals since 2012 — nearly seven times as much as either Mexico or Argentina. Brazilian companies represented eight of the 10 largest rounds in Latin America since 2012. GIC, Tiger Global Management, ICONIQ Capital.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

According to Jonathan Donovan, chief product officer at mobile ticketing and payment technology provider Masabi , one only needs to fish out a cell phone to put these troubles to rest. In that 2007 pilot test program, commuters could buy tickets in-person or online and have them delivered to their mobile phones. From paper to digital.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

We are starting to see consumers demanding things like order ahead or buy online, pick up in-store,” Ready said. Showrooming was the act of looking at an item in a physical store and then buying it online later (or, sometimes, right then and there) in order to save a few bucks. People default to Amazon because it’s easy to check out.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In a state of constant change, how does an online retailer ensure it is keeping up with the best customer experience, security, payments solution or fulfillment process? It was only a few years ago that retailers started looking externally for strategic answers to how they were managing inventory or how they were keeping fraud at bay.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

E-commerce sales growth is pulling ahead of total retail sales ( 17% vs. 6% for year-over-year in Q4’17), and Amazon is controlling upwards of 40% of online sales in the US, according to the US Department of Commerce and Slice Intelligence, respectively. However, this isn’t the whole story. The new big-box store. Ikea as a model.

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