PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

House committee this week began reviewing the idea of allowing the likes of Amazon or Facebook to receive charters to operate as banks — an idea that’s already gotten plenty of pushback from traditional financial institutions (FIs). This means getting regulation right is critical.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

billion fine onto Google, claiming that their product carousel ads created an unfair advantage to small guy retailers who didn’t have the money to advertise. They seemed to be living in the last decade, when people really did just use Google or Bing to look for products. Take Google. The regulators in Europe piled a $2.7

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted. The list goes on.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Saudi Arabia’s payments infrastructure is handled by Saudi Payments, which will help unify operability throughout both digital and more traditional providers. He used to work for new markets at Google in North Africa and the Middle East. Jakovljevic will work as a chief development officer, and begin in March.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 8, 2019

Dave Girouard, co-founder and CEO of Upstart and a former president of Google Enterprise, told Bank Innovation that the latest influx of funding — from Progressive Investment […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2019

“With the help of Gatik, we’re making sure we stay on the cutting edge of grocery pickup by testing an autonomous vehicle to move customer orders on a two-mile route in Bentonville between two of our stores,” Tom Ward, senior vice president of digital operations for Walmart U.S., said in a news release. . “We Gatik has raised $4.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2019

“With the help of Gatik, we’re making sure we stay on the cutting edge of grocery pickup by testing an autonomous vehicle to move customer orders on a two-mile route in Bentonville between two of our stores,” Tom Ward, senior vice president of digital operations for Walmart U.S., said in a news release. . “We Gatik has raised $4.5

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 23, 2023

Our innovation working group, called Spark, has been playing with the tool for the past several months, and this article details how we use it to jump our productivity by 20%. Like a Google search, the answers outputted by ChatGPT aren’t foolproof. What Is ChatGPT? The tool is only as accurate as the dataset provided to it.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Viva Republica, the operator behind digital wallet Toss, became South Korea’s latest unicorn after an influx of $80 million announced this week put the valuation of the company at $1.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

There is an out-and-out frenzy to capitalize on the pandemic-fueled digital shift that gave consumers few options for accessing products and services over the last twelve weeks. Innovators with better tech will appear and — literally overnight — snatch your customers out of your calcified incumbent arms and build scale, they say.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Capital One was famously the first major bank to integrate with Alexa, Amazon's virtual assistant that lives in Echo smart speakers as well as a growing array of other devices. Voice banking -- operating your bank account by voice -- is a hot topic in the industry today, but many questions remain. Alexa is listening.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

The co-creator of Google’s Android mobile phone operating system, Andy Rubin , rolled out a new company dubbed Essential Products that will sell a high end mobile phone and a home assistant gadget. The phone is priced at $699 and will operate on the Android OS.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

FinTech GoCardless has raised $95 million in a Series F funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Small Business Solutions and Karen Webster how payments innovation will play a critical role in their digital-first 2021. Plus, Fiserv is acquiring Ondot Systems to further its digital capabilities. BarkBox To Go Public Via SPAC At $1.6

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

However, marketing and fulfillment, which usually make up most of the company’s operating expenses, grew at less than 30 percent over the same period. If there is no scale, there is saving,” Chen Zhang told a group of reporters in Beijing on Tuesday (November 6). The company is also looking to expand overseas.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Google today relaunched its Google Ideas think tank as Jigsaw, a technology incubator, and the new venture has several projects aimed squarely at some of banking’s thorniest issues. Officially, Jigsaw’s “mission is to use technology to tackle the toughest geopolitical challenges.”

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers? Customer growth.

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Lex Sokolin

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Brain activity is always *ON* in the same way that your computer is always running background software for its operating system. Don’t ask the police to innovate. Each has centuries of operating experience, as well as deep precedent?—?whether It is through this lens that we see the recent Facebook/Meta and Google news.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Capital One was famously the first major bank to integrate with Alexa, Amazon's virtual assistant that resides in Echo smart speakers as well as a growing array of other devices. Voice banking -- operating one's bank account by voice -- is a hot topic in the industry today, but many questions remain. Alexa is listening.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Last month, The Washington Post reported more than 40 conglomerates, including Google and Dell, have nixed working with Chinese vendors in an effort to avoid those fees that aim to encourage businesses to shift their supply chains to the U.S. According to Kocher, bank-FinTech collaboration is key to addressing that gap, particularly in Asia.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. Google … and Ad-Supported Search .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

This time, it’s a move from Google , but it’s unclear how far these efforts will really go, and whether they will have a major impact anytime soon on consumer perceptions of online trust — one of the biggest ongoing issues in payments and commerce. The push to offer more online privacy to increasingly concerned consumers continues.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2018

Volkswagen has a $4 billion plan for connected and autonomous vehicle technology, one that includes a proprietary software operating system and will support car sharing, delivery and other services. A “new software operating system, to be known as ‘vw.OS’ … will be introduced in VW brand electric cars from 2020 onwards.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

Operating in the trade finance market, CCRManager announced $6.5 The company operates a digital platform to facilitate the disbursement of trade and supply chain finance to the secondary market, according to Global Trade Review reports this week. Check out the latest investment rounds below. Alternative Lending. CCRManager. Blockchain.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 29, 2019

According to a new Citibank report, the incumbent banks face up to a 30% revenue hit thanks to competition from digital-first banks as well as big tech players like Google, Amazon and Apple, which are slowly making their way into […]. How real of a threat?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

million worth of venture capital across two deals. That may not have been surprising this time last year, but today, considering talk of lackluster performance by these innovators — plus recent warnings over a total market collapse — that funding is pretty impressive. Find out who made the deal and how the rest of the more than $81.5

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CB Insights

AUGUST 1, 2017

This teardown features annotations & commentary by four Social Capital partners. Thanks to the Social Capital team for updating/confirming their portfolio data on the CB Insights Editor. Social Capital is a VC fund with a focus on healthcare and education. Get all the latest data on innovation, startups, & disruption.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

million podcasts in the world, you might find it daunting to weed through the lists on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, or other platforms to find the best banking podcasts. Weekly episodes highlight innovators and industry players driving innovation in the financial services industry. Indeed, with 2.8 keep me informed.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

PayPal, Google Give OCC’s Bank Charter the Cold Shoulder. By changing to the XRP digital currency, however, it forecasts lower operating costs along with the value of working capital it needs. As largely online operations, they are tempting targets for fraudsters and hackers — therefore, robust anti-fraud systems are vital.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Not just any decade, but one that has seen unprecedented levels of innovation touch nearly every industry segment and almost every corner of the world. Only then, he said, can one get clarity about how those dots can guide innovators about the future. The last 10 years in payments and commerce have given us millions of dots to connect.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

Minna co-founders and CEO Joakim Sjöblom and Chief Operating Officer Jonas Karles told PYMNTS that getting a better handle on subscription spend can be done through retail banking channels, boosting financial institutions’ own revenue streams. It’s an important capacity for banks as they compete with FinTechs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

Not just any decade, but one that has seen unprecedented levels of innovation touch nearly every industry segment and almost every corner of the world. Only then, he said, can one get clarity about how those dots can guide innovators about the future. Tuesday marked not only the end of a year, but the end of a decade.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

It may be slow on the B2B venture capital front, with just $31.5 With $16 million in new venture capital (VC) funding, SyncHR, based in the U.S., The company provides Human Capital Management cloud-based software to businesses. Launched last year, Wishbook was founded by former Google worker Arvind Saraf.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The news agency said that while Pan stopped short of calling for Ant’s breakup, officials want the firm to set up a separate holding company to ensure its capital adequacy and regulatory compliance. Will Chinese Authorities Force Ant To Restructure? . Read More On Big Tech: Five Ways The Connected Economy And Big Tech Helped U.S.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Joshua Siegel, managing director and CEO of StoneCastle, told Bank Innovation that Cambr essentially allows any company to offer banking products and services […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Technology giants like Google and Amazon , which gained their market muscle from non-finance-related ventures, are slowly stepping into the space. Google could be in the running, too, she added. “If Their next target could be small business lending, and according to some experts, it’s fast approaching the market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The interview happened during a time of expansion and aggressive future planning for the company, a small business and consumer micro-lending technology company that operates in Nigeria. Something must be working – not only can FairMoney raise capital, but according to Hainy, loan acceptance rates have recently tripled. One-Stop Shop.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2017

Basically, what’s occurring in the advancements in the economy has a direct impact on businesses and the way they operate. Enterprises see the potential to redirect the human effort saved through automation towards innovation, and to leverage emerging technologies to shape these innovations.”

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