PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Square ‘s mobile card reader undoubtedly made a significant impact on the mobile point-of-sale ( mPOS ) market, and kick-started a slew of recent innovations to broaden the ability for small to medium businesses (SMBs) to accept payments just about anywhere.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Meanwhile, only 5 percent of customers said they would definitely be buying one – only slightly ahead of the 4 percent of U.S. One thing’s for sure: Whether or not it ever becomes a sizzle, it’s an interesting test of just how far consumers are willing to stretch the definition of Amazon as a trusted commerce partner.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

At the same time, the market caps of the top 20 retailers have lost more than $230 billion over the last two years, and mall operators are sucking wind as overstocked anchor stores shutter underperforming locations, which delivers a death knell for the stores that depend on anchor store foot traffic to lure customers in. What Innovation?

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Insights on Business

JULY 20, 2017

I wasn’t particularly inspired by the Wikipedia definition , so I’ll give you mine. Open banking is often mentioned in relationship to compliance with regulatory standards, but in reality, the regulators are only catching up with what is happening in the market. The digital markets maker. What is “open banking”?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

But in recent years the country has faced its fair share of economic turmoil and political unrest, which has forced many to take their eyes off the tech innovation prize. The startup and tech community in Greece faces many challenges, including political uncertainty, tax increases and heavy regulations.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2018

Amazon’s entry into a new market is rarely considered good news in the world of retail. Baked into that expanded definition and demand for an ever-increasing amount of digital services is the core 7-Eleven customer who’s looking for a higher touch, more service-intensive visit. Moreover, Joseph DePinto, CEO of 7-Eleven, Inc.

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 13, 2019

Rather than focus on the deal particulars, which you can get from Bloomberg , the Guardian , Business Insider , and Forbes , I want to think through some corollaries of an event like the digital-first transportation company hitting the retail markets. The barrier to entry into the private markets is not just existing regulation?—?which

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 13, 2019

Rather than focus on the deal particulars, which you can get from Bloomberg , the Guardian , Business Insider , and Forbes , I want to think through some corollaries of an event like the digital-first transportation company hitting the retail markets. The barrier to entry into the private markets is not just existing regulation?—?which

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

There were plenty of tailwinds that pushed the segment forward: A strong economy, healthy consumer interest in credit and advances in credit scoring technology were all instrumental in pushing more consumers into the market, particularly in the first half of the year. The Two Faces Of Consumer Credit. Resetting Mortgage Services.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

However, with revenue in some markets growing as scarce as the consumers who used to generate it, some retailers are finding that reaching across the aisle — or several unrelated aisles altogether — and forging partnerships with strange bedfellows might be their best bet to make it into, and stay, in the black. million. “We

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

This rogue group also voiced fears that bitcoin’s strong position in the market could be usurped by an alternative digital currency. In Turkey, however, bitcoin stakeholders are one group that is definitely not able to relax as they face the blocking of many online services by Turkish authorities. versus Canada, according to NewsBTC.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014. Price: $7.9B. Price: $6.3B.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Market volatility. And he definitely liked the company’s “most unusual” executive compensation plan, which he wrote, “warms my heart.” He increased his holdings dramatically during the bear market of the mid-70s when GEICO was struggling. Don’t give your executives stock options as compensation.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 30, 2016

And all of this is to say nothing of the even larger number of security and authentication specialists whose technologies – at least by Deloitte’s definition – can be considered “regtech.” The emergence of regtech as a catalyst for innovation – BANKNXT. See also: To be a fintech hub, Singapore needs RegTech – Today Online.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

That most of our elected officials don’t have any clue how Facebook, much less the platform business models that have powered so much innovation across industry segments for thousands of years, work. Anyone who gets it down to one minute should definitely get the Nobel Peace Prize. billion searches a day or some 1.2

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Tomorrow's Transactions

DECEMBER 7, 2016

I told the assembled throng ( from the STFC ) that I was there to lobby parliament to have THE BLOCKCHAIN accepted as a religion, like Scientology, and to have all associated tax breaks and other privileges. Maybe some of us old hands still have something to offer when it comes to rethinking the ways markets can work.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Unfortunately, we were not able to find our place in the market. Around 4 p.m.,

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B Semiconductor Manufacturing International generated huge returns for investor New Enterprise Associates when it built a semiconductor company with an experienced team in a fast-growing international market.

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