PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

Online retail has had a tremendous impact on logistics, further evidence of which emerged on Monday (June 3). Blackstone Group reportedly is paying $18.7 According to a recent report from CBRE Group , 56 of the largest 100 warehouse leases in the first half of 2018 were with eCommerce firms and third-party logistics providers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Berlin-based Auto1 Group said on Wednesday (Jan. In July, Auto1 raised $300 million in funding in a round led by Farallon Capital Management and the Baupost Group. Existing shareholders, including SoftBank Group , also took part. 13) that it plans to go public in the first quarter of this year. billion euros in 2019.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

CIT Group Inc. As digitally-enabled sales continue to grow, businesses and their customers expect the same technology experience and service that they are accustomed to in other aspects of their life,” said Denise Menelly, CIT’s executive vice president and head of Technology and Operations. “As

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

moneycorp, has acquired an Australian independent treasury advisory company called the Rochford Group for an undisclosed sum, according to reports. This is moneycorp’s second major acquisition this year after it picked up the Brazilian online marketplace Novo Mundo. A payments service provider based in the U.K.,

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Perficient

JULY 29, 2020

Come join us for an exclusive virtual event for healthcare providers, featuring top industry experts from Salesforce, Perficient and The Chartis Group, on Tuesday, August 11. Keys to improving clinical operating models and closing gaps in care. Paul Griffiths, General Manager – Digital Health Solutions at Perficient.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

With a round led by ACA Investments, comparison shopping platform iPrice Group has notched $10 million in Series B funding. million items from over 1,500 online shopping partners. The core iPrice unit ran at a 30 percent EBITDA margin and comprised about half of its revenue. It now purports to bring together over 1.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

has entered into a definitive deal to sell Cost Plus World Market to Kingswood Capital Management, while Authentic Brands is reportedly in discussions with Arcadia Group and Debenhams. has entered into a definitive arrangement to sell Cost Plus World Market to Kingswood Capital Management. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Consumers are now getting everything online and that’s going to shape their behavior for good. online or offline, safely or not). Modesty aside, Shift is one of the prime examples of how innovation and shrewd management led firms like Vroom, Carvana and even more traditional companies to this point.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2020

Oyo Japan is a joint venture between the Indian online hotel company and SoftBank’s domestic telecoms unit, and it is among the most hard-hit by the pandemic among SoftBank’s portfolio of sharing economy businesses. The committee was announced in a town hall meeting on Aug. 3, Bloomberg reported.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

National Australia Bank (NAB) has chosen Eedenbull to integrate its payment and spend management technology for SMB customers. NAB will add Eedenbull’s Q Business platform to its offering to help SMBs track and manage spend, as well as to automate compliance controls. Absa Group Collabs With Surecomp. BNL Goes Live With Tink.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

JD.com and the biggest retailer in Thailand, Central Group, have launched a financial services app called Dolfin to help connect with local banks and increase the companies’ online presence, according to a report by Reuters. The app has e-wallet capabilities, digital lending services and wealth and insurance management.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 23, 2019

The FDIC has announced that it has entered into a settlement of the lawsuit filed against it and the OCC in 2014 by a trade group and several payday lenders challenging “Operation Choke Point” — a federal enforcement initiative involving the FDIC, OCC and other federal agencies. In July 2017, the D.C. In July 2017, the D.C.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2018

Earlier this week, five healthcare firms operating across the U.S. insurance landscape said they’re launching a pilot program that will help boost the management of healthcare provider data. Optum and UnitedHealthcare are part of UnitedHealth Group). The record trail is far-flung and often duplicative.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Right now, though, we are talking about fraud, and how criminals use online data sites to steal from consumers in search of romance or, at least, some temporary companionship. That’s the view from Reinhard Hochrieser, director of product management at Jumio. Online Dating Scope. The solution? Fake Accounts.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Faculty and staff members are attempting to control COVID-19’s spread to keep everyone safe and maintain smooth operations while also managing higher online portal volumes and other troubles related to education environments’ new realities. We had to transition all of that new student orientation programming online.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sequoia Capital has agreed to invest around 6 billion euros in Auto1 Group before the online car trading platform's initial public offering (IPO), Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. In addition, the company said the increasing amount of online sales was wind in their sales, too. 18), citing anonymous sources.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

Norwegian banking alliance Eika Group is teaming up with EedenBull , India’s FinTech startup BharatPe notched $15.5 Kudi Co-Founder and CEO Yinka Adewale said the company will be “hiring engineers, product managers and product designers,” according to the reports. With the latest round, the company’s total investment has arrived at $6.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Online retailer Allegro.eu was valued by investors at $25 billion in a deal last month, Bloomberg reported, in a transaction whose value was driven up by the shift of Poles to online shopping as a result of the pandemic. Globally, experts predict, online shopping will surpass prior levels significantly this holiday season.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

Three people associated with the hacking group FIN7 — also known as Carbanak — were arrested in Europe and are facing charges in the United States. The group was able to steal $1.2 Europol contended that the group has been operating since 2013 and has members in 40 countries around the globe. Hladyr is already in U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Banking giant HSBC and Cainiao Network Technology, which is a logistics arm of Alibaba Group , have announced they will offer rapid finance approvals to online merchants that use Chinese shopping site Tmall, according to reports. It will have first-mover advantage,” said Louis Tse Ming-kwong, managing director of VC Asset Management.

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Abrigo

JULY 15, 2015

One such pain point is the confusion behind identifying ways to effectively grow their business through the management of financial resources. Some provide higher rewards for travel, gas, restaurants or online purchases, among others. Advise clients to look for business partners or help connect them with investors in their region.

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Perficient

JANUARY 11, 2021

The brands that can operate with speed and agility win in this environment. 56% of BOPIS (buy online, pick up in-store) and 45% of grocery delivery users plan to continue using these services after the pandemic. . You can start making changes today to manage your mobile app as a mobile product and adapt to this new reality. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

One might imagine that mall operators nationwide take a rather jaundiced view of the internet, since online shopping has more or less killed the mall. But perhaps that is the old conventional wisdom — the emerging idea is that online retailers are giving back some of what they’ve taken away these days. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

Authentic Brands Group ( ABG ), the New York-based brand management company, could be the latest potential buyer of Ascena Retail Group , the recently bankrupt parent firm of Ann Taylor, Footwear News reported. The New Jersey-based company operates about 3,000 stores, mostly at malls.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

To serve travelers from China who want to shop in-store and online, retailers thousands of miles away from Asia are accepting Alipay in brick-and-mortar stores and on the web. Alipay North America General Manager Yulei Wang said in the announcement, “This is a key strategic partnership for achieving awareness in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

In an interview with PYMNTS, Xavier Ginesta , chairman at Voxel Group , which focuses on B2B payments, said that friction exists for B2B payments within the travel space — but that friction can be eased with eBilling and ePayments. This made the need to optimize operational inefficiencies secondary,” he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Online marketplace eBay could be getting closer to selling off its classified advertising business, which is potentially worth about $10 billion, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Interested parties include Blackstone Group, TPG, Naspers and German publishing company Axel Springer.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

The Saudi Arabia-based company hopes to take advantage of the surge in demand for its online delivery business due to the shutdown. Founded in 1984, BinDawood operates 73 stores across Saudi Arabia with 10,000 employees. Bloomberg reported that BinDawood is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Chase & Co. ,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

and China-based Ant Group. Mynt is the operator of the mobile wallet GCash. Mynt's funding round this month was led by Bow Wave Capital Management, a new investor. After the Bow Wave deal, the shareholdings of Globe Telecom and Ant, an affiliate company of Jack Ma's Alibaba Group , went down to 40 percent.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

In a deal expected to create the world’s largest online classifieds company, eBay Inc. has agreed to sell its ad division to Adevinta ASA, the Norwegian online marketplace, for $9.2 Adevinta operates in 15 countries and its portfolio includes nearly three dozen digital products and websites.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

The Indonesian eCommerce retailer backed by SoftBank Group Corp. ’s In 2018, SoftBank ’s Vision Fund and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., In 2018, SoftBank ’s Vision Fund and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., s Google and Temasek would be major scores for one of Southeast Asia’s biggest eCommerce operators. Microsoft Corp.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Boston-based Advent International , a global private equity firm focused on overseas buyouts, has purchased a stake in the United Kingdom’s parcel delivery group Hermes for 1 billion euros ($1.3 The goal for Advent is to profit on the surge in online sales. He said he expects the peak in demand this year to set records.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

BigCommerce , which works in software for online business operations, saw its value rise by 292 percent after an initial public offering (IPO) for $216 million was priced above a target range, according to a report by Bloomberg. exchange for a company raising at least $100 million, according to Bloomberg’s data.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We’re operating at this intersection of finance and technology, which are both industries that are woefully underrepresented by women in the first place,” Alaina Sparks , a managing director and the U.S. Female Innovators Lab is a New York program run by the Anthemis Group and Barclays that champions female FinTech founders.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Chinese eSports provider VSPN has raised $60 million in a Series B+ funding round to help it expand its operations overseas. Investors in the latest financing included Prospect Avenue Capital, Guiotai Junan International, and Nan Fung Group. Banana Gaming has operations in Shanghai and Seoul, Korea.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

AppotaPay, a division of the gaming and entertainment firm Appota Group , is among the 39 entities in Vietnam that have been granted payment licenses. Founded in 2011, Appota Group grew out of the Topica Founder Institute. Its online gaming ecosystem generates content, advertising, esports and more. 14) Tech in Asia report.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Dutch retailer Ahold Delhaize — owner of grocery behemoths Giant and Stop & Shop — has acquired a majority stake in supermarket delivery startup FreshDirect amid an online shopping surge propelled by COVID-19. “We Delhaize, founded in 2016 from a merger of Ahold and Delhaize Group, is among the biggest supermarket operators in the U.S.

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