PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Luxury retail is being revised — and in some cases, reinvented — and those trends are worth attention as the 2019 holiday shopping season approaches. Not only that, but the luxury online consignment retailer opened a brick-and-mortar store on New York City’s famed Madison Avenue. Indeed, in its recent U.S. Barneys Woes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Digital fraud is a long-running problem for merchants, retailers, banks and businesses of all types. 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. Developments From The World Of Digital Fraud.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Digital Black Friday sales this year hit $9 billion, a 22 percent increase from 2019 figures, according to recent Adobe research. Despite a surge in sales, small businesses selling online can struggle to manage working capital, particularly as many rely on third-party marketplaces like Amazon that don't facilitate instant access to revenues.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The epidemic has hit the country’s manufacturers and retailers alike as people have been out of work and quarantines have come down. ChiNext is trading at roughly 59 times last year’s earnings, up from around 30 a year ago and 47 at the end of 2019. percent gain in China’s blue-chip CSI 300 index. .”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

Asset manager Brookfield, which owns stakes in numerous malls, is demanding retailers pay back rent even as the Toronto-based investment group has missed mortgage payments, the Financial Times reported Sunday (June 21). The tenants, who requested anonymity, said they have asked for until next year to come up with the payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Specifically, Global Blue focuses on tourists spending abroad, and offers products that help capitalize on tax-free shopping as they buy luxury goods. Global Blue handled 64 million transactions for 29 million international shoppers in the fiscal year ending March 2019. Retail sales were up 3.6 percent year on year.

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 18, 2021

Effectively, Britain was forced into a ‘Battle for Capital’ simultaneous with its military efforts — with the efficacy of the latter dependent on the success of the former. New information about those changes comes from some of the hundreds of ledgers of War Loan investors who provided capital for war in the years 1914-1932.

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CB Insights

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. In August 2019, the company closed out its Series F funding round from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and General Catalyst at a $35B valuation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Yes Bank is a private-sector bank that mainly operates as a corporate bank, but it also does asset management and retail banking. The bank has had a tumultuous 2019, facing increased attention from regulators as well as scrutiny from investors, who are concerned about bad loans , lack of lender regulation and availability of capital.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Robotics and automation were areas of focus for both retailers this week as they seek to upgrade their operations in an effort to capture more consumer spend. The move comes as cities and states are passing bans on cashless retail establishments, on the argument that such retail discriminates against unbanked consumers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Taken together, the $350 million in capital invested by Ant and the group of financial investors values the firm with an enterprise value of about 2.3 billion euros. The new, publicly-traded company will be incorporated in Switzerland , will trade as “Global Blue” and will sport the ticker GB. The IPO – and Other Attractions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

Global investment firm RBC Capital Markets sent out a note on Sunday (Jan. “We think investors are better off remaining positive here, given attractive valuation and high probability for services to re-accelerate later in 2019 via new offerings,” RBC said. RBC made a list of the reasons for the drop in revenue.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 10, 2022

Anton Schutz, President and Chief Investment Officer, Mendon Capital Advisors. Anton formed and has led Mendon Capital for over 25 years. Prior to starting Mendon he worked for Tucker Anthony Capital Markets working in the banking sector, and before that worked in Structured Derivates at Chase Manhattan.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

Chamber of Commerce’s Q4 2019 Small Business Index , conducted with MetLife, reached an all-time high for the quarter with 69 percent of surveyed SMBs saying they are in good health, and 59 percent reporting optimism for the future. Among the largest is the friction SMB owners face when seeking capital. Cash Flow Pains.

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BankUnderground

AUGUST 30, 2023

Profits versus excess profits: measurement and trends Measuring profits is a challenging task : national accounts data are affected by the ‘mixed income’ of self-employed, taxes and subsidies, and conflate two different dynamics: those of the market and non-market (real estate and public) sectors.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The jousting over eCommerce taxes — especially for U.S. Last week in India, the government proposed a tax on eCommerce transactions that will likely increase operating costs for sellers large and small. The tax, technically known as “Tax Deducted at Source” (TDS), is sent directly to an account held by the central government.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2017

However, if Apple sticks to its previous patterns, then future versions will be losing the Home button as well sometime in 2018 or 2019, TechCrunch predicts. Bloomberg reports that Apple is now in talks with Bain Capital to throw its hat into the ring with competitors KKR & Co. Car Designers Hit The Road. and Western Digital Corp.,

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2020

These companies differentiate themselves from traditional human advisors with lower fees, 24-hour automated support, portfolio rebalancing, and tax optimization, which can translate to higher returns for investors in the long run. 2019 represented a record year for asset and wealth management M&A deals. Source: Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1789 that the only certainty in life was death and taxes. Over the last decade, innovators have capitalized on the consumers’ growing desire to save time, using mobile devices and apps to create any number of ways to do that. PYMNTS.com 2020 SOURCE: 2019 How We Will Pay Study. Maybe even spendable.

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PopularBank

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This realignment in our New York Metro market is consistent with our small business and retail services model in South Florida,” said Popular, Inc. The expenses include a pre-tax charge of approximately $2.4 “Popular is committed to meeting the needs of our customers and communities, guided by our 127-year legacy. Virgin Islands.

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BankUnderground

JULY 29, 2020

However, the empirical literature, most prominently Heider, Saidi and Schepens (2019) , find that commercial banks generally do not push deposit rates to negative levels, so that negative policy rates compress banks’ net interest margins and hence their willingness to lend. Several recent papers consider variants of debt financing.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. Even so, September 2020 was one of the strongest months for IPOs since Uber went public in May 2019. Investment banking revenues hit a 13-year-low in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Presented by Afterpay and featuring an interview with Daniel Demsky , co-founder of travel clothing retailer Unbound Merino , this report detailed the way installment payment plans’ popularity have surged during the pandemic, and research correctly suggested it would become only more popular during the holiday season. Buy Now, Pay Later.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Corporate relocations and expansions—influenced by factors like affordability, low corporate tax rates, no personal income tax and a rich talent pool—have contributed to a momentum that isn’t likely to subside soon. billion to the state’s GDP in 2019, according to state records. Capitalizing on an area’s growing popularity.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

As 2019 ended its first quarter, it may have been the deals worth tens of billions of dollars that garnered the lion’s share of headlines. IPO Tax Windfall: Amid dizzying IPOs — they’re up and they’re down! According to The Wall Street Journal , state tax coffers will swell by $13.8 billion as a result of capital gains.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

And taking effect with the dawn of 2019, the Chinese government has put in place new initiatives tied to cross-border trade flows done by digital means into several markets. Platform operators and merchants must conduct due diligence related to everything from intellectual property and tariffs to tax laws and FX rates.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Bank of America, Capital One, Chase, PNC, and Wells Fargo all offer digital and mobile banking options. Wells Fargo, Capital One, and Bank of America are also looking to chatbots as a way to provide more responsive, real-time digital services for customers. It had over 2M users as of July 2019. users avoid unnecessary fees.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: CapitalG, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Select Investors: BlackRock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. In January 2019, Munchery abruptly ceased all operations, as it informed customers via email.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

The Washington-based company has raised $6M to date from Vulcan Capital, among others. Vulcan Capital, the private equity arm of Vulcan, made early bets in Seattle on downtown commercial real estate now largely occupied by Amazon. Blokable was founded by Aaron Holm, who formerly spearheaded physical retail efforts at Amazon.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

For many retailers, especially those focused on eCommerce, the next several weeks are crucial. Clearbanc , which provides growth capital for online brands, said on Wednesday (Nov. Front load your inventory and get the capital you need in as little as 24 hours. Clearbanc (@clearbanc) November 13, 2019.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

PYMNTS has studied more than 700 SMBs since March 24 to understand the impact of the pandemic on their operations, the stability of their businesses, their access to cash and working capital, and their efforts to slow their cash burn and pivot their approach if possible. Contractors’ margins average between 5 percent and 7 percent of sales.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 7, 2019

Hopefully your holiday season was restful GonzoBankers – because 2019 is literally going to be a bear. After the initial high of the “Trump Bump” in late 2016 and the euphoria-promoting “Tax Bump” of late 2017, bankers saw their fortunes turn against them in the second half of 2018. KRE – Regional Bank Stock ETF – Past 5 Years.

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