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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The surge in automotive online purchasing traffic sparked by the pandemic has led to increased demand for eCommerce. Our new financing will allow us to further distinguish our offerings and customer experience as an industry innovator," said Modal CEO and Founder Aaron Krane. 8) of a $15 million Series A financing.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The one thing we all have to learn: it is not about the innovations themselves. We get very excited about our innovative capabilities, and we are extremely proud of all of our IP and patents in this area. Those innovations have illumination that there is value here beyond a great light,” said Karner.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Restaurants that are driving food innovation with carefully chosen ingredients focused on health are seeking funding to help power their growth. True Food Kitchen , in one case, has created its menu around recipes that Dr. Andrew Weil inspired with anti-inflammatory ingredients and is mulling raising new private capital, Bloomberg reported.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Credit unions (CUs) are performing well as the new decade dawns, with a recent study finding that CUs increased their loan originations by 29 percent from Q4 2018 to Q4 2019. Though still strong, this industry growth has slowed in recent years, with another survey finding that total loans only increased by 6.6 percent in 2019, compared to 10.5

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CB Insights

MARCH 20, 2019

From e-commerce to software to payments, several companies with $1B+ valuations exited in 2018. Using CB Insights data, we identified the startups with a $1B+ valuation that exited in 2018. We’ve also covered 2018’s 14 European unicorns , 37 Chinese unicorns , and 55 US unicorns.). Meituan Dianping.

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CB Insights

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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MAY 3, 2019

To provide consumers with less expensive and more flexible booking options, eCommerce innovators are taking new approaches to hotel reservations. They then can see a list of hotel results with prices (similar to other online booking experiences). million Series A round led by Fosun International’s VC investment arm, Fosun RZ Capital.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

8) that Naspers invested $500 million of new capital into the company. The number of monthly listers on its marketplace has grown 65 percent since the beginning of 2018, letgo said. “We We are fueling unprecedented growth in the secondhand economy through meaningful innovation.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Almost 33 years ago, David Letterman introduced his singular innovation in stand-up comedy: the Top 10 List. Since we would hate for anyone to go into the end of 2018 behind the eight ball, we decided to pay tribute to both a great bit and a great deal of news with our own top 10 list of the biggest news of summer 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. Banks are getting into online initiatives, evidenced by Goldman Sachs building a consumer-facing business beginning two years ago and moving beyond catering only to the wealthy.

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JULY 9, 2019

In the age of quick-service restaurant (QSR) dining technology innovation, restaurants are frantically looking into ways to provide consumers with mobile ordering bells and whistles like third-party payment integrations, rewards programs and surprise-and-delight offers. At the same time, dining platforms are expanding their offerings.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – Since its launch in 2010, Citi Ventures has focused on investments that are strategic to its parent, the global financial services provider Citigroup. But when your parent company is a bank that spans the world, you can get involved with a lot of things. The portfolio of Citi Ventures, which comprises 35 companies, […].

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

There were fewer discounts on toys for online shoppers, despite an average of 15-18 percent price cuts into Cyber Monday. In 2018, toy prices were slashed 31 percent, UBS Analyst Arpine Kocharyan wrote in a note, citing eCommerce trends tracked by Adobe. In 2017, price discounts were about 19 percent.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Kaspi.kz, which is part-owned by Baring Vostok and Goldman Sachs , offers online payments and an eCommerce marketplace accessed through an app. Net income for the company has increased 54 percent to $203 million in the first six months of 2019 compared with the same period in 2018. “We stock market.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The amount of use cases has really expanded, as customers want to be able to answer simple questions when shopping online that aid in the consideration process. In early 2018, goodr grew from a small community of runners buying its products to appeal to a larger fanbase. Some of those questions are: How big is it? What are the details?

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 13, 2018

Berlin-based challenger bank N26 will be opening its services to users in the United States and the United Kingdom by the end of this year, founder and chief executive officer Valentin Stalf told Reuters today. The bank, which was officially launched in 2015, currently has a German banking license, allowing it to operate in other […].

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Online personal shopping service Lookiero revealed it has closed a $19 million funding round led by London-based MMC Ventures, as reported on Friday (Sept. Founded in 2015 by Spanish entrepreneur Oier Urrutia, the company uses algorithms to provide users with a personalized online shopping experience.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Stripe is buying Paystack, a firm that says it processes over half the online payments in Nigeria. The FinTech reportedly invested in Paystack’s Series A round back in 2018. billion in venture capital investments spanning from January to September 2020. Stripe To Acquire African Payments Processor Paystack.

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Insights on Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In order to remain relevant to digitally astute and socially active customers, core banking processes, must be more reliable, scalable and secure requiring banks to constantly innovate. Without optimizing existing processes and platforms, it is a drag on creating anything new and innovative.

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JULY 24, 2020

Open banking is often associated with the European Union (EU) almost by default as the region pushes the envelope further on regulation than anywhere, partly to encourage — but also to keep up with — imaginative FinTech innovators going to market throughout the Eurozone. FinTechs Flourishing.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

One of the most important innovations in history is the pendulum clock, which was invented in 1636 by Christiaan Huygens , a Dutch scientist and founder of the field of mathematical physics. Enabling people to use their scarce time more efficiently has been at the core of many disruptive innovations throughout history.

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MARCH 20, 2018

The “Scottish Pacific SME Growth Index,” released twice a year, found the portion of small businesses that said they would use banks for funding declined from 38 percent in 2014 to 24 percent in 2018. FinTech offers include creating seamless online loan applications and software that analyzes financial data to deliver the best possible deal.

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MAY 1, 2020

The best way today’s businesses can digitize their payment processes is by transitioning to innovative platforms that work with existing systems and do not require large infrastructure investments or changes to current processes.”. postal mail, using APIs that work with existing software. Paper Wait.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

As part of the partnership , DATIS will attend and sponsor the upcoming Relias Impact Nation 2018 conference for the second year running to promote the complementary aspects of the Relias and DATIS platforms. Relias is also the leader in online training and compliance solutions for the Health and Human Services market.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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AUGUST 25, 2019

Chinese social eCommerce platform Wanwu Xinxuan has raised $20 million in a Series B round of financing led by Fresh Capital, with participation from Redpoint China Ventures, according to Deal Street Asia. Launched in August 2018, Wanwu Xinxuan is an online retail platform selling children’s apparel, shoes and accessories.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

While commercial card innovation certainly accelerated in 2018, progress can always continue. Recent Capital One research also uncovered how sluggish mobile payments adoption has been in the corporate setting. One area of development that J.P. It’s not altogether an unfamiliar concept, of course.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor. This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Those that invest in optimization will effectively manage their corporate capital and emerge from the pandemic stronger businesses as a result.”. One report found that 93 percent of B2B SMBs are now conducting at least some of their operations online — an increase from the 90 percent that said the same in December 2019.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

million in a Series A round of funding that involved Index Ventures, Y Combinator, First Round Capital, F-Prime Capital Partner and other investors. The new capital will help fuel hiring and other growth, the company said. Fraud Prevention Innovation. Castle, founded in 2015, said it has raised $9.2

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

ContentSquare, an experience optimization platform for online and mobile businesses, announced Tuesday (Oct. The capital investment by Highland Europe will support ContentSquare’s global expansion and attract new talent to advance the company’s vision. 18) the completion of $20 million in Series B funding.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Plastic cards and the card rails are reliable and certain, at the physical store as well as online. Speaking of online, uncertainty over shopping online is what gave birth to PayPal in 1998. Then, buying and selling online was a sea of uncertainty. Consumers stick to what they know will deliver a predictable outcome.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Bukalapak, an online marketplace company from Indonesia, will soon announce a new round of funding, according to reports. percent stake in the company in September of 2018. As the company recently celebrated its ninth anniversary, Founder and CEO Achmad Zaky said innovation is the key to driving the business forward. Naver Corp.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 7, 2018

On August 3, 2018, Arizona began accepting applications for its regulatory sandbox that “enables a participant to obtain limited access to Arizona’s market to test innovative financial products or services without first obtaining full state licensure or other authorization that otherwise may be required.”

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MAY 29, 2020

billion as of 2018, but a sale now would likely reflect a reduced valuation due to the rough first half of 2020. “We Those goals would all require vast amounts of capital, but Zoox lacks the automotive partners that facilitate other startups like Cruise (which works with General Motors) or Argo AI (Volkswagen and Ford). We believe $1.1

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

The pandemic has helped, no doubt, as it has brought us all toward ordering online. 31, 2018 and 2019, we and our independent registered public accounting firm identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting.” Will investors reward the digital shift?

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MAY 28, 2018

According to Chain Store Age , the criteria for the award include successful development and executions of product, store, online and service innovation strategies; delivery of an outstanding in-store experience; excellent customer service; and strong financial performance. Founded in 1909 by American businessman H.

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