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MAY 6, 2020

In the year ago first quarter, the growth rate had been about 27 percent as measured against 2018’s first-quarter volumes. CEO Jack Dorsey noted on the earnings call that new and existing sellers continued to transition from in-store commerce to online channels, aided by curbside pickup and delivery. Customers had more than $1.3

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APRIL 18, 2019

The Federal Reserve has released new data on small businesses’ appetite for capital, and it appears that financing demand is on the rise. Compared to 2017 figures, small businesses have increased their demand for capital. Nearly one-third sought financing online in 2018, an increase from 24 percent in 2017.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

It’s easy to play Monday morning quarterback for the growth of online grocery. When consumers need essential items but get scared by a high-touch environment, it’s only natural for online numbers to spike. The prevailing data and wisdom at this point is that, yes, online grocery has spiked due to COVID-19.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

JPMorgan Chase had the highest "buzz ranking" among banks in 2018, according to YouGov's Brand Index, an annual poll measuring which brands are considered the best by consumers. Participants were asked, “If you’ve heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks, through advertising news or word of mouth, was it positive or negative?”

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Online FinTech startup SoFi announced Thursday (Jan. 7) that it was merging with publicly-traded Social Capital in an $8.6 Noto will continue in his role as CEO which he has held for three years since arriving from Twitter in 2018, where he was COO, and prior to that the NFL, where he served as CFO. consumers.

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JULY 12, 2018

and Tata Capital has rolled out a new lending platform in India. At first, the company will be referred to as ‘TransUnion, formerly Callcredit’ and will then be known as just TransUnion later in 2018. In other news, India’s Tata Capital has rolled out an online working capital platform for its customers, the company said.

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APRIL 1, 2019

Some providers are capitalizing on the concept by launching new services that offer access to premium content such as newspapers and magazines in exchange for a monthly fee. The share of Americans aged 14 to 21 who subscribed to internet-based video services in 2018 is 80 percent. in the fourth quarter of 2018 (although it added 7.3

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

Though FinTech has, in many ways, heated up the competition with banks, traditional financial institutions (FIs) widely began to realize in 2018 that their best strategy to remain competitive in today’s financial services landscape is often to collaborate with (not against) those FinTech firms. Visa Acquires Longtime Partner Fraedom.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

The data-driven “Restock Kroger” initiative will largely take the place of new growth in the coming year, according to Supermarket News , with improvements to customer service and assortment winning out over expansion in 2018. The retailer is also expanding online ordering and delivery options available through Shipt and Uber.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

The rise in online shopping means more shoppers needing refunds on returned merchandise. Twenty-five to 30 percent of online orders are returned, three times higher than physical purchases. According to CBRE, in 2018 online returns were forecast to reach $37 billion in value during the gift-giving season.

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JULY 23, 2019

As noted in this space yesterday, there’s been a rush by venture capital firms to find and fund startups that focus on the digital transformation of buying and selling properties. Crunchbase has estimated venture capital money flowing to these firms in just the first few months of this year has topped $1.9

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

The rate of credit card delinquencies jumped 52 basis points (BPS) in the first quarter (Q1) of 2018, and will likely continue to increase over the next 12 months as consumers take on more debt. percent in Q1 of 2018, “down slightly from a year ago,” Moody’s said. Performance by banks was mixed again in Q1 2018. percent and 4.9

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Digital trust-and-safety company Sift said that 2020 has been a “banner year” for online shopping sales, but that scammers have modified their approaches to take advantage of the boom, according to an announcement. Digital fraud is a longstanding issue for retailers and banks. The pandemic has only made these issues worse.

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MAY 22, 2020

Previously, Missfresh has raised $900 million thanks to investors like Jeneration Capital and Genesis Capital. As of 2018, Missfresh had $1.5 The demand for online groceries has become a factor in the U.S. A Missfresh spokesperson declined to confirm or deny the report. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Matt Clark, president and COO of Corcentric , contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. Working together to implement solutions that provide value to both the buy-side and sell-side of the equation, buyers and suppliers achieve insight to working capital that was not previously possible.

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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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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 24, 2018

While some banks and fintech view each other as competitors, that’s not always the case. In fact, there have been a number of significant bank-fintech partnerships this year. What follows is a list of four alliances that the Bank Innovation staff found most interesting. Lloyds Banking Group and Thought Machine Core overhauling is a […].

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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. American Honda has worked with Modal, formerly Drive Motors, since late 2018 to create branded online buying tools for Honda and Acura. 8) of a $15 million Series A financing.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

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. It is not an exaggeration to say that 2018 has been the summer of movie subscription service MoviePass ’ discontent.

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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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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 26, 2018

This year the financial services industry saw a lot of fintech M&A activity. Here are five deals, in no particular order, that Bank Innovation's editors think will most significantly impact the landscape in 2019. PayPal Acquires iZettle Payments giant PayPal inked its largest deal ever this summer, acquiring Swedish company iZettle for $2.2

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

Coming up on the half mark in 2018, total fundraising on the continent has hit $168.6 The two biggest players in the FinTech startup have been Cellulant — a digital payments operation currently up and online in 11 African countries — and the online micro-lending startup Branch. So why the boom? Cellulant raised $47.5

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

billion and gave it an implied market capitalization of $14 billion. Wish, which is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2010 by ex-Google engineer Peter Szulczewski, runs an online marketplace known largely for selling discounted items from China. and it was the most-downloaded shopping app in the world in 2018.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Account takeovers and shipping fraud increased by 347 percent and 391 percent, respectively, between 2018 and 2019, and the pandemic has only exacerbated these issues. Other fraudsters are deploying phishing schemes to net their ill-gotten gains, either using the stolen data themselves or selling it online.

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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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MARCH 6, 2019

PayPal said on Wednesday (March 6) that it has provided more than £1 billion in financing to small businesses in the United Kingdom through its Working Capital program. As has been reported, the company’s capital lending program lets companies receive cash advances against future revenues.

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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 letgo , the app to buy and sell locally, announced Wednesday (Aug.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The startup followed that up in 2017 with the launch of its first mobile personal bank account and app, and the first digital business account in 2018. In October, Starling rolled out an online banking account for customers who want to manage their accounts on their laptops and desktops, in addition to their phones. “As

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JULY 8, 2020

Ant Group, the online payment service affiliate of China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, is looking to go public as early as this year, Reuters reported. . The Chinese financial services company was valued at $150 billion in a 2018 fundraising round. At the time, Credit Suisse and China International Capital Corp.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Co-Founder and CEO Eran Shust told PYMNTS in an interview that the aim is to bring more options to the table and enable travelers to “choose something not out of the specific package[s] that most of the OTAs [online travel agencies] are offering.”. million Series A round led by Fosun International’s VC investment arm, Fosun RZ Capital.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. The news reveals CEO Anthony Noto 's aspirations to go public after he succeeded SoFi Co-Founder Mike Cagney in 2018. SoFi was valued at $4.8

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

Cyber Monday is tracking to break eCommerce records and possibly go down in history as the biggest day ever for online sales in the U.S., Across Thanksgiving and Black Friday, retail visitors dropped a combined 3 percent from 2018, according to analytics company ShopperTrak. Online shoppers were projected to drop $9.4

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

An Israeli startup that creates anti-fraud services that deal with online transactions wants to raise $200 million for expansion, according to a report in Bloomberg. At Riskified, our goal is to turn fraud management into a growth engine for online retailers,” the company said on its website. “We

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

With small business, there is a tremendous need for access to capital. Largest independent purely online bank in the world. William Mills III, Chief Executive Officer of William Mills Agency is live blogging today at FinovateSpring 2018. Some data gets categorized via the tool. www.tinkoff.ru/eng Tweet #Finovate.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

“Walmart is keen to get a strong brand backing its eCommerce business, while Tata Group wants a global name and an established player in the online space,” a source told Mint. If the deal is signed, it would represent India’s largest retail space ever, eclipsing Walmart’s 2018 purchase of a 66 percent stake in Flipkart for $16 billion. .

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PYMNTS

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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