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MAY 8, 2020

months of payroll (plus some expenses) if they could prove it necessary to continue to operate their business as the businesses were told to close their doors as a result of the pandemic. Part of the “necessary” requirement included the lack of access to other capital.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times. In talking to community bankers, here are the main reasons provided: Improved Credit Quality : Banks can stabilize the borrower’s debt service coverage ratio (DSCR).

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times. In talking to community bankers, here are the main reasons provided: Improved Credit Quality : Banks can stabilize the borrower’s debt service coverage ratio (DSCR).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

The new anti-money laundering (AML) and combatting the financing of terrorism (CFT) regulations outline the duties of the country’s banking watchdog, the Financial and Capital Market Commission, so it can fight money laundering and terrorism financing in the financial sector. In 2017, two Latvian banks were fined more than 2.8

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2017

And, behind the scenes, the brewery’s story is that of an exacting journey of finding Main Street success. We wanted to start fairly large because if you are small, it’s really hard to grow as you just don’t have the capital coming in,” Marvil said. Two months later, Lamplighter was fully operational. Growing Thirst for Suds.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Both Uber and its main competitor in India, Ola, hold more than 70 percent of their revenue from only five cities in the whole country: Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi-National Capital Region and Kolkata. They’ve hosted protests in major cities, including Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Kochi. Government acceptance is also an issue.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

The data painted a dark picture for Main Street retail this week, with a new Facebook & Small Business Roundtable study showing that over 30 percent of small to medium-sized businesses have either failed or don’t see a way forward due to the pandemic. It’s called Main Street Regenerators.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

Our surveys found that like most consumers and businesses, Main Street SMB owners thought in March that the lockdowns would last two or maybe three months tops. The PYMNTS study found that sluggish sales figures have cut cash flow for Main Street SMBs hard as the pandemic grinds on. But even then, 58.4 percent of U.S. Cash Flow Woes.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

B2B startups saw a little bit of everything this week when it came to venture capital. million funding round over the weekend, with the corporate expense management company seeing funding from Sabadell Venture Capital, Venturecap, Bankinter, Telegraph Hill Capital and Kibo Ventures. Spain-based Captio revealed a $1.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Hong Kong’s travel and leisure booking platform Klook has closed a $200 million Series E funding round led by Aspex Management , with participation by Sequoia Capital China , SoftBank Vision Fund, Matrix Partners China and Boyu Capital , according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

Businesses of a certain size — and in industries as varied as construction and restaurants — know the pain of wondering if they will have enough capital to fund operations, inventory, expansion and other mission-critical business activities. For loans made via the Working Capital operation, the new money tends to support inventory.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

But 2020 isn’t a normal year, Visa ’s Global Head of Business Solutions Kevin Phalen told Karen Webster on the eve of National Small Business Week , and restaurateurs, like every other Main Street business everywhere now brace for a holiday season without precedent. Main Street businesses have been undeniably hit hard by the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Digital payments — and specifically, card-not-present transactions — may be convenient for consumers, but can impact the very operations of the retailers serving them. As a result, Visa and PYMNTS found that 76 percent of the surveyed Main Street businesses reported having cash flow shortages.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

According to Blue Star Capital , its investee company SatoshiPay has launched a new B2B payments platform to speed up cross-border payments, Proactive reported. And it has signed its first client, a European business operating in sub-Saharan Africa in the microfinance industry.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Highlighting the increasing interest in this startup space is this week's B2B venture capital roundup, which recaps the final two weeks of 2020 in B2B FinTech investments. The company operates a B2B online marketplace for the food and restaurant industry, allowing businesses to purchase goods directly from producers and distributors.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. Select VC Investors: Khosla Ventures, Social Capital.

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Abrigo

MAY 24, 2023

“Without full access to the banking and payments system, legal cannabis businesses are forced to operate in the shadows,” said Sen. Without access to traditional banks, legal cannabis businesses can’t access loans and capital or even use basic bank accounts. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, in the same hearing.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Plus, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is reportedly among the backers in a new European early-stage venture capital fund. That included a large boost from the food delivery part of the operation, which experienced a 32.8 RIT Capital Partners is the new fund's main investor. Meituan Revenues Up Nearly 30 Pct YOY In Q3.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

Verse will continue to operate as an independent business, working out of their offices with no immediate changes to their existing products, customers, or business operations, Square added. At this point, our main priority is enabling Verse to continue their successful growth in Europe,” Square said. “We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Aside from SoftBank, Microsoft, Toyota and Didi Chuxing serve as the company’s main backers. As it stands, Grab , which launched in 2012, has operations in areas like Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. (Sources have since told Reuters that the company plans to invest two times that much at a minimum.)

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

The two main eCommerce players are Copia (which has faster delivery) and Jumia (which has more market share. Tim Steel, its CEO, points to Africa’s 750 million mid- and low-income consumers- who spend $680 billion a year – as its main target market. The commission I earn as a Copia agent has been my working capital,” said Kihara, 48.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

as well as Durable Capital Partners LP in addition to current investors, accounts and funds that T. The company said the funds will help with new offerings that assist its retailers in handling the evolved operating climate as well as provide diners with secure and accessible ways to transact. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

The purchase comes as Ontario Systems has recently shifted to being backed by private equity money, as it was acquired last year by New Mountain Capital, according to a Government Technology report. SwervePay, meanwhile, offers text payments and automated balance messages on top of its main services for electronic payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

According to nonprofit Accion Opportunity Fund VP Adriana Eiriz , the uncertainty plaguing Main Street today is widespread. While these pivots reflect the resiliency of small business owners, they can also make it more challenging for lenders to understand how a business operates. Small business owners are so resilient," she said. "I

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

26) that the company raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Ribbit Capital, based in San Francisco, and Steadview Capital, based in London. Its lending operations connect small businesses with about $500 million in financing over a three-month period, with the company planning to expand that funding amount to $2000.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

Menlo Ventures , the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, closed a new $450 million venture capital fund aimed at investing in early stage companies focused in the consumer, enterprise and so-called frontier technologies markets. Menlo Ventures said the fund was oversubscribed, with existing investors and new ones participating.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Andreessen Horowitz has revealed that it is transitioning from being a venture capital (VC) firm to a registered investment advisor (RIA). Last year Andreessen Horowitz became the first venture capital firm to raise a large fund focused on cryptocurrencies, worth $300 million. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Americans, by-and-large, drank the same amount during prohibition as they did before and after — the main difference was that they paid more and bought it from the Mafia, which itself was largely an outgrowth of prohibition. But the world is full of unexpected costs — just ask the team at CAN Capital.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Laura Ashley shares have recovered in the aftermath of an agreement finally reached between its main shareholder and leading creditor, The Financial Times reported. based Wells Fargo and Malaysian group MUI Asia , it should be well-poised to utilize the needed funds from its working capital facility to meet its immediate funding needs.

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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. In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. Improving efficiency is like “losing weight” and “working out more.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

ZipLoan operates a digital platform to connect small businesses to loans, with a focus on kirana stores and micro-enterprises. Mexico’s Creze secured about $12 million in fresh funding that will bolster the company’s small business lending operations. Accounting automation startup CANDIS secured about $14.2

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, John Rainey , chief financial officer and executive vice president of global customer operations at PayPal , noted that CFOs (including himself) have learned to pivot, too, with ground-level, tech-driven insights that move well beyond simply tracking money flows. What’s Important To Merchants.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 30, 2017

Here is how he saw things … Fintech in Rwanda: the place where Telcos are surpassing Banks in the financial sector Telcos dominate in the financial sector of Rwanda Last week I participated in the leading fintech conference in Africa “Dot Finance”, which took place in Kigali, capital of Rwanda.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Community banks should consider implementing the following management tools (all used by their larger competitors) because they are easy to adopt and can gain community banks significant advantages against their lending competition: RAROC – larger banks measure product profitability with risk-adjusted return on capital models.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2018

The investors to take part in the latest fundraising include CICC Capital (a unit of investment bank China International Capital Corp.), brokerage China Securities, private equity firm Citic Capital and BOCGI (Bank of China’s investment arm). Google gets 27.1 million new JD.com shares, giving it a 1 percent stake in the company.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Describe a typical day in the life. Perficient, though not new to insurance, is consistently realigning to capitalize on the industry’s digital transformation potential. Some of the main talking points were around agent systems and ecosystems, embedded insurance, and of course, generative AI.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 23, 2023

This data is critical for pricing, capital allocation, and marketing. The operative question is when commercial PODs will show a spike. As can be seen, Arizona and Texas have the largest increases in credit risk, while Minnesota and Maine are the most stable. Once again, it is time to play more defense.

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