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Oriente said it will use the money to boost its growth in existing markets and further new developments in places like Vietnam. Prentice, a co-founder of Skype and ex-chief strategy officer, formed Oriente in 2017, along with Hubert Tai, a founder of Ping An’s Lufax and Chinese unicorn dangdang.com, and investor Lawrence Chu.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Human resources (HR) and benefits software platform Namely has found a new CEO — and $60 million in venture capital (VC). She had been part of the Namely board of directors since 2017. GGV Capital , a Menlo Park, California-based firm, led the round alongside Tenaya Capital.

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JULY 6, 2022

Banks usually find resounding success as providers of capital and cash management services if the event and approach are right. The thinking goes that while it seems like a waste of resources, you have already committed at least your business development officers’ time and cost of attendance.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Belgium’s capital city is becoming known for more than just housing major international institutions like EU Parliament, EU Commission and NATO. The World Bank ranked Belgium as the seventeenth best country in which to do business in 2017, out of 190 regions. The region is also home to an active and fast-growing startup scene.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

And earlier this year the company raised €25 million in equity financing in a Series B round led by Valar Ventures, with participation from Acton Capital Partners and Atlantic Labs. Founded in 2017, Cluno allows users in Germany the chance to subscribe to a car for an all-inclusive monthly fee.

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MAY 29, 2019

“That has tied up enormous resources.” “ICC, for its part, is proactively working with regulatory bodies worldwide to promote the fair treatment of the industry and increase access to the market.” This only exacerbates the preexisting gap between the demand and supply of trade finance.”

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JUNE 11, 2021

How IFRS 9 affects the level of equity capital. As Figure 2 demonstrates, IFRS 9 increases the level of credit loss provisions, reducing after-tax profit and retained earnings (the main component of equity capital resources) of a bank. Table A presents some details about the impact of IFRS 9 on capital ratios of European banks.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Helen joins from Natwest Group, where she was a member of the executive team and held the position of Chief Human Resources Officer. the leading open platform for innovation, FusionFabric.cloud, in 2017. She has an incredible wealth of expertise including extensive global exposure in all aspects of people strategy.

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MAY 30, 2017

With growth in other areas, such as student loans, banks are more interested in steering their resources in less risky directions. billion from the fourth quarter of last year to the first quarter of 2017. . billion from the fourth quarter of last year to the first quarter of 2017. percent in October and a peak of 25.5

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

As the financial services industry takes a look back at 2017, a few milestones stand out: the progress of faster and instant payment initiatives. A small business needs working capital, letters of credit, export insurance logistics, shipping insurance and credit protection. The evolution of blockchain-based services.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Card volume for on-demand, live-streamed and game or software content increased by 35 percent between 2017 and 2018, according to a First Data SpendTrend report. Ad views for live-streamed content account for 33 percent of total views, up from 23 percent in 2017.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Hiring continues to be a challenge as business owners not only struggle to find qualified workers in a tight labor market, but find professionals who will help that company achieve its goals. Smaller companies are most vulnerable, researchers said, pointing to their lack of resources and IT staff to bolster cyber defenses.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

Expense management technology is now a saturated market, particularly for the small business space – which is notoriously difficult to serve, because they are too small for large, enterprise-grade solutions, but too large for consumer-specialized tools. “Some observers will define the market as $10 million in the top line to $1 billion.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” The move comes amid growth in the larger maternity market, however, with sales of that apparel expected to reach $7.7 percent CAGR since 2017, according to one recent estimate.

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JUNE 21, 2017

Whether a company is a Main Street florist or Fortune 100, executives and owners struggle with the gap between their perceived value of the business and the market value. In fact, this valuation gap is the top reason private-company transactions fail to close, according to the 2017 Private Capital Markets Report by Pepperdine University.

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APRIL 24, 2017

We break down the latest on SME lending in these key markets. trillion worth of outstanding SME loans in China means lending activity to small businesses in the community has inched up in Q1 2017. The $330 million market cap of alternative SME lender OnDeck is giving rise to murmurs of a merger.

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JUNE 6, 2019

bank branches in 2017, and some are concerned that, as the trend continues, small business (SMB) owners will not have access to the in-person services that a customer relationship manager (CRM) can provide. As a younger generation of entrepreneur steps into the market, that minority will continue to shrink. Researchers found a 2.2

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

One of the biggest shifts in banking that FinTech newcomers ushered into the market is the demand among customers for advisory services. What some financial institutions have come to realize is that collaborating with FinTechs can enable them to offer cutting-edge solutions while reserving resources to invest in meeting those advisory needs.

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MAY 8, 2017

We redeployed resources for growth and invested heavily in our technology platform in the first quarter,” said Scott Sanborn, the company’s president and CEO. Net revenue in the first quarter of 2017 was $124.5 He noted that the downward trend has continued into the first quarter of 2017. So how did that acceleration shake out?

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JULY 24, 2018

The Other Bets unit also reported an operating loss of $732 million, a 16 percent increase from the second quarter of 2017. According to some observers, that increase might indicate that hiring costs for Waymo employees are increasing as the market for connected and self-driving automotive technology continues to grow. “We

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small businesses had sought a loan online, compared to just 19 percent that did so in 2017. But according to Pat MacKrell, president and CEO of New York-based small business lending firm Pursuit , the online alternative lending market has gotten good at hiding the true cost of financing from SMBs. ” Knowing Their Options.

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Gupta said that what has been interesting to note thus far is how many repayments are made years earlier than expected — with payments going out in 2017 and 2018 already coming back in repaid. We think if we can extend that help at the right time in the right ways, we can both support and strengthen the market as a whole.”.

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MARCH 16, 2018

Because APIs facilitate integration between two services, the technology allows FinTechs to innovate in their niche markets, rather than attempting to be a jack of all trades. “I There is a culture of banking innovation; they understand what their core competencies are,and where to allocate resources most effectively.”.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

A 2017 report from Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends found a whopping 75 percent of new online advertising spend comes from either Google or Facebook. Their market monetization has made it difficult, however, for industry newcomers to step in.

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The core premise is that, at least in the American education system, the value of getting a degree is one part skill gathering and another part labor market signalling. For example, let’s consider this compelling article: Disruptors PayPal and Square surpass Wall Street giants including Goldman Sachs in market cap. is signalling.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

That’s according to SAP SuccessFactors and Oxford Economics, which surveyed 4,100 FinServ executives across markets. 49% of financial professionals say earnings uncertainty is a greater threat today than it was three years ago, according to the 2017 Association for Financial Professionals Risk Survey. s current political system.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

With these developments in mind, we used CB Insights data to analyze the surge in auto tech private markets financing through 2017, including a breakdown of how much financing has gone specifically to the autonomous driving ecosystem. in 2017 to date. Indeed, 2017’s larger deals have ranged across the AV ecosystem.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I find that persistent debt booms led financially constrained firms to cut back on investment, across both capital expenditures and intangible assets. It is an open question whether this debt overhang effect – the process through which indebtedness takes away resources from the economy – may also be at play for corporates.

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MAY 8, 2018

While the prices of cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets have fallen from their 2017 peaks, equity investment into blockchain startups is on pace to hit all-time highs in 2018. How 2017’s winners are turning into money managers, venture investors, and acquirers. ICOs are expensive, and often incur legal, marketing, and advisory expenses.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

To illustrate the different ways China’s largest internet giants are positioning themselves in the online insurance market, we put together the graphic below breaking down BAT’s various partnerships, investments, and acquisitions in the space. Hillhouse Capital, Allianz. Hillhouse Capital, Aviva. Partner/Name.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Market opportunity. Stripe is ramping up its private market investments. Expansion into emerging markets. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Focus on developers.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

At stake is roughly $27.25T held in US retirement assets as of September 2017 (including IRAs, 401(k)s, pensions, etc). Though 401(k)s only account for $5.28T of assets (nearly 20% of total retirement savings in 2017), they have grown dramatically, up from 2% of total retirement savings in 2007. WEALTH TECH TRENDS TO WATCH IN 2018.

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JUNE 9, 2017

In the world of consumer payments in 2017, seeing a paper check out in the wild has become a genuinely rare event. If you take the middle market, it’s probably a lot closer to 70 percent to 80 percent. They are very clearly an underserved market.”.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

The World Bank ranked the United Arab Emirates as the 26nd best country to do business in 2017, out of 190. The centrally located city, which is globally recognized as a hub for European, African and Asian business, is placing its focus on boosting its status as a FinTech capital of the world. Dubai is the land of opportunity.

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APRIL 20, 2017

The North Carolina Technology Association’s 2017 State of Technology Industry Report found that Charlotte and the Research Triangle area account for 60 percent of the state’s tech sector. MP: I would say that the biggest challenge facing startups in Charlotte is access to early-stage capital.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

For the millions of American households that remained on the “nice” list during 2017, the holiday season often meant receiving mounds of new gifts. That’s the beauty of capitalism,” he said. “I Notable players contributing to the growth of the market include rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft and home rental services like Airbnb.

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JULY 18, 2018

Credit unions who feel the calling to open their doors to this growing and upwardly mobile community have a great opportunity to capitalize on word-of-mouth momentum. Here are some highlights from the 2017 study: Underserved consumers spent $173 billion in fees and interest to use $1.94 The market opportunity expanded an estimated 8.3

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