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JULY 12, 2018

and Tata Capital has rolled out a new lending platform in India. In other news, India’s Tata Capital has rolled out an online working capital platform for its customers, the company said. Tata Capital’s platform is developed in partnership with U.S. Coverage includes U.K.-based FinTech company Biz2Credit.

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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 The FinTech IPO Market. billion deal that brings it instant liquidity and avoids the uncertainty of the initial public offering (IPO) process, while leaving it better positioned to take on legacy banks.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

Among the ongoing trends in retail is the funding for online used car platforms, and the ongoing rise of eCommerce and digital payments in Latin America. Consumers who want to sell their cars via that platform reportedly seek an online price estimate. “If The latest evidence of that comes via Japan-based SoftBank. More Funding.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Canada-based point-of-sale (POS) and eCommerce software provider Lightspeed recently announced the release of Order Ahead, an online ordering management system designed for takeout orders. Boston Market On The Fraud-Fighting, Customer Service-Enhancing Power Of AI.

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JULY 12, 2020

capital’s office market, has bought an office in London, Bloomberg reports. He said he had “great faith” in London’s office market, saying there could be a greater wealth of opportunity once the pandemic is over. million to make sure all systems were still online.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

16) for the company's market debut, CNBC reported. Wish, founded in 2010 by former Google engineer Peter Szulczewski , has become known as a market for low- and middle-class shoppers, gaining it a reputation as an online dollar store, CNBC reported. Morgan Chase and Bank of America. percent Wednesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Japanese investment firm SoftBank Group is in talks with two startups in Mexico in a bid to continue to search out opportunities in the Latin American market, according to a report by Reuters citing sources familiar with the matter. Mexico is Latin America’s second biggest economy, but its startup sector is trailing Brazil and Argentina.

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PYMNTS

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. Similarities To The EU.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Bank of America and the traditional banking system is being disrupted across a wide variety of core revenue streams. . Bank of America, for one, saw profits drop 16% year-over-year (YoY) in Q3’20 to $4.9B. Tech companies are chipping away at the traditional bank’s market share.

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MAY 2, 2017

For small businesses, expansion is key, and expansion needs capital. The company has said that it is the first bank in Puerto Rico to offer digital services, ranging from business credit cards to working capital loans to SBA loans. 500,000 in the United States, with terms of three to five years.

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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. Morgan Chase and Bank of America. This helped Wish raise $1.1

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PYMNTS

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. Because of the pandemic, he said, younger people have begun investing, seeing the market downturns as an opportunity.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Bloomberg , citing four people with direct knowledge of the matter, reported that Morgan Stanley purchased $14 million in local subordinated bonds from online consumer lender Geru Tecnologia e Servicos. Morgan Stanley’s move comes at a time when the Brazil FinTech market is exploding. percent each year, noted the report.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Iain McNicoll , VP of Americas/SMB for payments platform Payoneer , recently told PYMNTS that eCommerce’s market share has risen to 27 percent from just 16 percent when the pandemic began. With this [change], we’ll see more competition in the online arena, with larger brands coming in and competing directly,” he said.

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JUNE 13, 2018

Holdaway, who has an MBA from Harvard Business School, joins Barclays after 15 years at Capital One , where he held a variety of senior leadership roles in new business initiatives, internet acquisitions and partnership finance. He will report to Barry Rodrigues, CEO of cards and payments, and Richard Haworth, CEO of the Americas business.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Volanty, an online Brazilian used car market startup, raised 70 million reais ($17.6 Monashees Capital and Canary also invested in Volanty in this round after last year providing 19 million reais ($4.8 SoftBank launched a $5 billion Latin America fund in March, the largest investment of venture capital funds the region has seen.

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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.”. The Hotel Market. For payments, the site accepts credit cards and PayPal.

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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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Online sneaker marketplace Goat Group has raised $100 million in a Series E funding round, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which will go toward expanding its products and apparel categories. The round was led by D1 Capital Partners , and values the company at $1.75

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2020

Bigger lenders — JPMorgan Chase , Bank of America , Capital One and Santander — are pouring over various borrowing rules and making revisions, informed sources told the WSJ. Square and On Deck Capital are among the FinTechs planning to follow suit in the coming days.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Online food delivery company HungryPanda has raised $20 million in a funding round led by Antoine Nussanbaum from Felix Capital and Laurel Bowden from 83North, according to a release. We bring global experience and expertise in this market, which has already made us the leader in a number of cities in the U.S., ANZ and Europe.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Chuck Huang, founder and CEO of Citcon , explores how the pandemic has prompted retailers to capitalize on the surge in demand for contactless, digital payments. "As Progressive retailers have paved the way for this with email collection at registers, enabling them to connect their customers’ behavior in-store with them online.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

With a focus on small retailers, ShopX offers online commerce and supply chain management services with support for mobile access to its services. Despite the alternative finance market’s struggles, investors have backed Skippr to the tune of $11.8 million in debt and equity financing. Payroll is on a roll with investors , again.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

13-14, online merchants in America and beyond are preparing for the earliest, most aggressive selling season ever. With more and more commerce going online, he said, it will also be increasingly important for sellers to process a higher number of returns and chargebacks and to quickly settle customer disputes.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Corporates that could quickly invest in new technology also benefited from the fast, unexpected pivot to living, working and learning online. Wider access to bigger loans benefitted companies that went into the pandemic with healthy balance sheets.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

Lightspeed and Stripe have teamed up to launch Lightspeed Capital, which will, initially offer loans aimed at small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) in the U.S., based merchants with overall business growth, more specifically to buy inventory, invest in marketing, or manage cash flows,” the company said in a press release.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

EXCLUSIVE — With government-backed initiatives and a finite business of copper export, Nathan Lustig, co-founder and managing partner at Magma Partners, saw huge potential in the Chilean fintech market. Additionally, […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Morgan Chase and Bank of America are leading the IPO for Wish’s parent company, ContextLogic. Additional participants include Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, UBS Group, RBC Capital Markets and Credit Suisse Group. ContextLogic owns other online marketplaces, including Geek, Mama, Home and Cute, according to the Wish website.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Pepsi has had a distribution agreement in North America with Rockstar as of 2009. The move comes as Pepsi and Coca-Cola have both been moving into the energy drinks market, CNBC reported. Energy drinks comprise 92 percent of the total energy market. The market is forecasted to reach a $427 billion value in 2020.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

customers feel that online-only banks are “less legitimate” than those with branches. From mid-2012 to mid-2017, Capital One Financial Corp. Still, big banks like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are committing to opening new branch locations, specifically in new cities. cut 32 percent of its branches, SunTrust Banks Inc.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Since May, Square’s market capitalization has almost doubled, now hitting $55 billion. Morgan Chase and Bank of America still easily outpace Square, but the Jack Dorsey -helmed company is only around $20 billion away from being on the level of Goldman Sachs ‘ $74 billion market value. banks, Bloomberg reports.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

have capitalized on a sea change in how we pay. Cross-border online commerce — awash with opportunities to claim new customers and, of course, grow top lines — should quicken the collective pulse of U.S. To capitalize on that aforementioned eCommerce growth in emerging markets and log sales in those regions, U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Today’s coverage includes the latest way Instagram wants to appeal to online shoppers, along with fresh data about how fraudsters might attack on Thanksgiving Day. Instacart raises new capital, Berkshire takes a stake in Chase and bitcoin has a bad day. Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Private technology companies in Latin America have raised over $5.8B Want the 12-page report for free?

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JUNE 10, 2020

billion in a move that could result in the world’s largest online food delivery firm outside of China, with operations in 25 countries. Once the deal is completed, Grubhub CEO and Founder Matt Maloney will join Just Eat Takeaway.com’s board of directors, where he will lead the business in North America.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Reports in e27 said MAA Group provided the investment, which microLEAP plans to use for marketing, new staff hires and technological enhancements. Its micro-financing portal targets SMBs that cannot access capital via traditional means. Sequoia Capital India led the Series A investment, TechCrunch reported. Modern Treasury.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Because many banks are now producing below their cost of capital, growth further exacerbates their issues and drives them out of business (likely through a sale) faster. Without the windfall of profit accrued to banks in 2022 because of faster-than-expected rate increases, banks will need to be better allocators of capital.

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