PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

Having $1 billion in bookings and more than 200 destinations globally – those are big numbers, to be sure, but these are not stats gleaned from an airline. The Series D round, which includes investors as far-flung as Sequoia Capital China, Goldman Sachs and others, brought in a total funding of $300 million to date.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

Capital One logged stronger than expected results when it posted its earnings yesterday — the growth was driven largely by rising interest rates and an uptick in its largest lending categories, cars and cards. Supply of card credit is on the high side, although it has settled out a bit. By The Numbers . What’s Next.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

As such, they can struggle to organize flight bookings, handle payments, manage trip expense records and more. The February Workforce Spend Management Tracker , a collaboration with PEX , tracks how solution providers are seeking to bridge this gap to meet the business travel expense management needs of SMBs and freelancers.

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Abrigo

APRIL 25, 2024

The negative correlation of funded business loans to the Fed funds rate is a staggering 86% as businesses weigh their needs for capital against expensive debt and lenders aim to limit risk. Almost half sought credit to grow their businesses, and 28% applied to make repairs or replace capital assets.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Cryptocurrency lending platform Vauld raised $2 million to expand into full banking services, including issuing credit and debit cards and providing fiat and crypto order books, CoinDesk reported. The funding round was led by Pantera Capital and included Coinbase Ventures and LuneX Ventures. In other news, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Today in B2B payments, corporate acquirers get creative with technology in a pandemic world, while BBVA upgrades its expense management offering. Plus, Sleek raises $4 million, JAGGAER upgrades its treasury management tool and AWS teams with Orange Business Services to accelerate corporates' digital cloud migrations. 23) announcement.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2020

The firm's plan is to manage more money for clients and to bring down investments from its own balance sheets. There are two goals — to free up capital and to generate a steadier revenue stream from management fees, according to Bloomberg. Tiger Global Management, Sequioia Capital and TCV are all working on similar projects.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Travel booking company Amadeus is integrating Barclaycard virtual card technology into its Amadeus B2B Wallet solution to streamline business payments processes, the company announced Thursday (Feb. “Payments is not a one-size-fits-all business,” explained Bart Tompkins, Amadeus managing director, payments, in a statement.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest B2B FinTech venture capital funding rounds. million Series A investment led by Framework Venture Partners, while PenderFund Capital Management, Conconi Growth Partners and Royal Bank of Canada also participated. In Canada, Checkfront revealed its $9.3 FinCompare.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 14, 2022

That's the number of books in John Maxfield's banking book library. Doesn't your bank have a bank book library? Two hundred and forty three books. Books are in author last-name order. Because it's a library's worth of books! Two hundred and forty three. How do I know? He sent me his list. Interesting idea.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Starting today and running through the end of 2017, travel-loving Capital One customers with either the Capital One Venture Card or the VentureOne Card will have a new perk to play with. But discounts aren’t the whole of the model, since even Shank noted that there are other ways to save when booking online.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 19, 2024

While bankers can sell customers cash management or deposit products and later cross-sell credit, in the vast majority of cases the real estate mortgage acts as the entrée to a new relationship. The real estate mortgage is a platform that drives cross-sell and upsell capabilities. Profitability continues to grow over time.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

In the first quarter of this year, KPMG said in a recent report that there were five $1 billion-plus mega-venture capital rounds, and analysts say venture capitalists (VCs) are diversifying their investment targets as emerging focuses, from artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare, build excitement.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

Capital One and Discover were falling at more tempered rates, in the low to mid single digit percent ranges. WSJ noted that Synchrony issues branded credit cards, among them with customers as large as Walmart, and those cards skew to riskier borrowers. That is more than 10 percentage points higher than JPMorgan and Discover.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

We have deep dives into virtual card adoption and self-service technology, as well as a report on Kobe Bryant’s legacy. Bryant formed the Bryant Stibel venture capital firm in 2013 with Jeff Stibel, founder of Web.com. Bank Is Doing to Drive Virtual Card Adoption. Managing Spend in a Sector Where Unplanned Expenses Are the Norm.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Commercial card startup Brex, which recently secured funding that propelled it into unicorn status, is augmenting its platform with the introduction of corporate travel booking capabilities. ” “Startups have a disadvantage when booking corporate travel,” added TravelBank CEO Duke Chung in another statement.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Yet, the burden of financial management, from tedious data entry to compliance challenges, is a nonnegotiable part of starting a small business (SMB). When small business owners take on the books themselves, the process requires significant manual data entry and number-crunching. “In retrospect, it was a big mistake.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

While 2021 has kicked off with a bang in the venture capital arena — with several high-value investments on the books — this week's B2B VC roundup is all about the seed rounds. Young B2B FinTechs secured some of their first investments in areas that include small business accounting, alternative lending and financial management.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

While many businesses large and small continue to rely on the legacy method of expense management — that is, requiring employees to front the bill, manually fill out expense reports, and submit spreadsheets for paper check reimbursements in the mail — FinTech innovation has opened the door for significant improvements in this arena.

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BankBazaar

JANUARY 30, 2020

What if we tell you that you don’t need to run from pillar to post or spend a lifetime in queues to get a Credit Card or a Personal Loan? Thanks to websites like BankBazaar, it is now possible to get a Credit Card or a Personal Loan without running from pillar to post or drowning yourself in paperwork. Find out how. .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

5) the launch of Stripe Capital to simplify the way internet companies can access funds. It remains difficult for online businesses to get access to capital. Stripe Capital makes it easy for internet businesses to get the funds they need when they need them,” said Will Gaybrick, Stripe’s chief product officer.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Business confidence remains relatively high, but the latest analysis from CB Insights found that venture capital (VC) investment took a turn for the worse in Q1. Reports earlier this week in the Financial Times revealed that global venture capital funding dropped 13 percent to $6.3 FreightHub.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The lead underwriter for the offering is Goldman Sachs Canada in cooperation with book managers Credit Suisse Securities Canada Inc, BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and RBC Capital Markets. The company said it plans to use net proceeds from the offering to repay debt.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

It looks like a race is shaping up to determine the future management of General Motors ’ credit card business. However, the Journal cited unnamed sources as saying that the London-based Barclays is also bidding for GM’s card business, while current issuer Capital One is unlikely to let the account go without a fight.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In the past, Eko has taken in investments from the likes of Intel Capital and Sequoia Capital. In August, Walmart announced another partnership with the launch of its eBook service, Walmart eBooks by Rakuten Kobo, which provides customers with access to an all-new digital catalog of books in-store and online. With a $9.99

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year marketing campaign rolled out by American Express in 1987 to convince consumers that it was worth paying a yearly fee for one of its charge card offerings. Data Analytics Changes the Working Capital Management Paradigm. Booking Holdings cautioned investors on Thursday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

banking-as-a-service (BaaS) Startup Railsbank closed a $37 million funding deal co-led by MiddleGame Ventures and Ventura Capital. The funding is being earmarked to launch credit cards-as-a-service in the U.S. UK BaaS Railsbank Closes $37M Funding Deal To Support Growth. and elsewhere as the BaaS platform grows its global footprint.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

The incentive is available for people with cruises that are booked between March 6 and May 31. These same credit cards used in frequent flier programs that use “credit acquirers” to process the card payments also issue the refunds, and they can “hold” cash for trips bought but not yet taken. told Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Corporates want to delay payment as long as possible in order to better manage cash flow, while suppliers are pressed to accelerate accounts receivable to strengthen their own cash positions. It can indeed be a valuable tool, enabling corporate buyers to make a purchase without having to immediately let go of capital.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

And often, drilling down into business segments and management commentary provides insight into just how we as a nation are faring, depending on where you look. The company also launched a gift card portal in order to help buyers search for and support Square sellers. Card-present volumes were down by 60 percent year over year.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While the term “accretive to book value” is still the best bet for buzzword bingo at AOBA, the real talk centered around digital transformation and fintech disruption. price/book multiple. experiments with a more visible move from shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism. Technology Management Breaking the Bank?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

Small business lending platform OnDeck is accelerating access to capital for its users through the launch of a same-day funding option. local time, as per National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) caps, as long as small businesses complete their booking or line of credit draw by 10:30 a.m. on a business day.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

Corporate travel and expense (T&E) management solutions provider TripActions led this week’s B2B venture capital roundup with its announcement of new funding that propelled its valuation to $4 billion. Lulalend lends directly to SMBs that can apply online, with an automated approval process accelerating access to capital.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In a week of multiple nine-figure venture capital funding rounds, B2B FinTech has proved it plans to end the year on a high note. Investors from IVP, Madrona Venture Group and Meritech Capital all joined the fold, while existing backers CapitalG and Sequoia Capital led the round.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The issue, he recently explained to PYMNTS, is travelers spend corporate cash to book travel and then request reimbursements after-the-fact, meaning CFOs and accountants can’t retroactively push for employees to spend less. In his professional experience, Chung said he has identified a major factor that contributed to this trend.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Financial management is mission-critical to the health and vitality of small business (SMB), but it’s also one of the most difficult tasks for entrepreneurs and business owners that may have the skills to launch new products or services, but lack the accounting expertise to handle the numbers. The firm secured $1.8

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