CB Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

As blockchain tech gains commercial traction, a growing number of companies want to use it to reimagine the capital markets infrastructure that powers the trade of stocks, bonds, and other securities. The chart above shows the core blockchain tech being used by projects and corporates working on DLT applications for capital markets.

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JULY 22, 2020

Brex , the San Francisco financial technology startup, is offering FDIC insurance on its no-fee cash management account, the company announced Wednesday (July 22). The new feature in Brex Cash allows customers the choice to hold cash savings with FDIC insurance, or invest in Money Market Funds.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 27, 2019

SigFig, a San Francisco fintech specializing in robo advice, today unveiled SigFig Atlas, an interactive platform for financial advice and software-guided sales that faces both retail banks and their customers.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Uber Money teams are also located in Palo Alto, Amsterdam, New York and San Francisco tech centers, Livemint reported. Besides engineering, we are investing in growing and scaling data science, analytics, and product management organizations to transform Hyderabad into a full spectrum tech site for Uber.”. of India (NPCI).

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. 13), the company has raised $400 million in funding round led by Generation Investment Management LLP and previous investor T. As The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Nov. Rowe Price Associates.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Apis, which made the investment through its Apis Growth Fund II, said in a press release that it was attracted by Cashfree’s “strong growth and profitability as well as its product innovation.”. Cashfree is a “2017 alumnus of Y Combinator,” the San Francisco-based startup incubator, according to the release.

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JULY 31, 2020

the San Francisco-based online bank, had the last laugh. Varo Bank’s opening … represents the evolution of banking and a new generation of banks that are born from innovation and built on technology intended to empower consumers and businesses,” said Brian Brooks, OCC’s acting comptroller in a statement. “As Varo Bank N.A.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

To bolster its subscription business, San-Francisco-based Recurly has notched $19.5 The subscription commerce market is undergoing a dramatic shift as consumer purchasing behaviors are quickly evolving to expect flexible, pay-as-you-go models from their favorite brands,” CEO Dan Burkhart said in a statement per the outlet. “The

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Speaking at Disrupt San Francisco , Oviosu announced Paga’s plans to expand globally. Oviosu said Big Tech players like PayPal and Alipay are competitors as Paga moves into more emerging markets. I put together a team … to build … public financial management systems for the country.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The startup, which raised the funding from angel investors including Southern Water Managing Director Rob Barnett, EV Cargo CEO Craig Sears-Black and Lyre's Spirit Co. Its cap table management solution targets startups to offer investor information and maintain ownership records. The company highlighted the $8.14

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MARCH 11, 2020

Several companies have stepped up this week with some innovative remote solutions. Anine Bing tapped NewStore to leverage its cloud-based omnichannel order management system and mobile point of service offerings. “Operating a storefront in a major city like San Francisco isn’t cheap. The first is Perfect.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The company will also be closing its tech offices in San Francisco. Michele Herron, senior vice president of strategy, marketing and small business at Visa’s CyberSource, lays out the challenges of bringing sales into the digital pipeline while defending against fraudsters — and shares a roadmap on how to get there.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

There are a number of transactions that are cross-companies and multi-party that are inefficient, they go through intermediaries, they are very slow,” senior manager at Coke One North America Andrei Semenov said. The market for ICOs blew up and then bombed with bitcoin’s roller coaster ride in value.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

The firm said it plans to focus on scaling up and product innovation, building out its staff, and strengthening marketing initiatives. Designed for the field services industry, Skynamo ’s offering connects businesses to a sales app and management solution while enabling sales representatives to reduce their reliance on paper.

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FICO

APRIL 2, 2019

This April, the world’s leading event in financial services innovation kicks off – LendIt Fintech USA 2019 in San Francisco on April 8 and 9th. Keynote – Analytic Innovations Using Consumer Permissioned Data (April 9 at 9:40 a.m. They will also dive into FICO’s newest innovation in credit scoring…the UltraFICO™Score.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Launched in 2013, San Francisco-based Particle aims to be an all-in-one solution to help customers bring IoT devices to market by providing encryption and security, as well as data autonomy and scalability. Our customers who started as early innovators are now leaders in their industries.”

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MARCH 25, 2019

To connect food delivery platforms with consumers looking for convenience and cost savings, eCommerce innovators are creating aggregators as price and time comparison tools. The Food Delivery Market. FoodBoss is available in markets from Chicago to Washington, D.C., as well as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.

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APRIL 28, 2017

leads the rest of the world in the total value of FinTech investment due to the large amount of funds available to invest in the market, with investors focusing on late-stage, clear front-runner FinTech companies,” said KMPG U.S. The company said it will also look to expand into new markets. According to KPMG’s U.S.

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APRIL 14, 2020

Tally had its test run at a Target store in San Francisco, although the company has not announced plans to expand as of yet. Phil Duffy , VP of product management and marketing at retail automation company Brain Corp, believes that retailers will adopt a different mindset on the other side of the coronavirus crisis.

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MARCH 14, 2016

The French cosmetics chain announced Saturday (March 5) that it had officially opened the Sephora Innovation Lab, a research space located in San Francisco where the retailer will test its own and sponsored partners’ innovations for in-store and online retail.

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MARCH 1, 2019

Socure provides cloud-based fraud prevention and identity verification functionality to its business customers, and said in its announcement it plans to use the funding to focus on sales, marketing, research and customer support team expansion. growth trajectory, particularly in the healthcare and public sectors. Contrast Security.

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JUNE 25, 2020

And this, Unison CEO Thomas Sponholtz told PYMNTS in a recent conversation has pretty much been in its terms of innovation in the world of homeownership financing since the mortgage was invented in 1192. ” Unison offers its services to both potential homebuyers and homeowners with equity in their properties.

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MAY 30, 2016

The San Francisco-based startup’s computer vision technology helps machinery acquire, process, analyze and understand images from the real world to make decisions and automate actions. Until now, it has provided software tuning and integration in several market-leading products ranging from cars to security systems.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 2, 2023

These the biggest and best events in the financial services space geared towards technologists, product managers, developers, marketers and C-Suite execs at both financial institutions and rival fintech firms. Event Spotlight Tech meets finance in San Francisco 60+ demos. 100+ speakers.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Customer relationship management (CRM) firm Salesforce is expanding its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer customer service technology powered by artificial intelligence (AI), Salesforce said in a press release on Tuesday (Nov. 19-22 in San Francisco and New York City.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

and the small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) tasked with tidying messes have little tolerance for disarray in cash flow management and worker reimbursements. The market for franchised cleaning services, excluding commercial or janitorial companies, has expanded at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.8

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Country Manager Lars Petersson said, “We recognize that we are in a rapidly changing retail environment, and to be fit for long-term growth, IKEA is transforming in a way that lets us meet our customers where they are.” As it stands, Amazon Go stores in Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco use the cashierless technology.

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MAY 15, 2019

The company is far from the only delivery aggregator in the game and they aren’t the best-known – DoorDash, Grubhub, Postmates and Uber Eats all have bigger public profiles, and three-quarters of them were founded and are headquartered in San Francisco, the U.S. in San Diego. city where tech buzz is built most of the time.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In a new report , the CFPB discusses its approach to FinTech and financial innovation, its Project Catalyst initiative, and marketplace developments the CFPB views as potentially beneficial for consumers. ” The report also reviews the CFPB’s trial disclosure waiver policy and its no-action letter policy.

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William Mills

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Now in its 23 rd year, the conference featured more than 20 technology providers and rallied together innovators from across the globe to discuss how financial institutions can better engage with business customers… and the timing couldn’t be better. According to The Wall Street Journal , the U.S. www.miradortech.com. AI Foundry.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

still manage their bookings with pen and paper,” Shedul co-founder and CEO William Zeqiri said in an interview. The round was led by Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), and backed by Dubai’s BECO Capital and San Francisco-based Lumia Capital. A full 52 percent of salons in the U.S. The firm’s goal is to “process over $1.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

While it was a quiet week for the industry, B2B startups still managed to secure more than $190 million in funding, mostly situated in the U.S. million for its freight management technologies. Another startup dabbling in the logistics market is Anchanto , a Singapore-based company that secured $5.45 and Singapore. Trucker Tools.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

But one California company has taken a slightly different approach to marketing their products at the popular grocer — they’re stocking kiosks, not shelves. And the company is not done expanding — it plans to find one or two new partners for the fresh kiosks in the San Francisco Bay area, according to Inc.

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MARCH 25, 2020

The March 2020 Order To Eat Tracker® , a PYMNTS and Paytronix collaboration, is packed with innovation news bringing an early thaw to Q1. Restaurants operate in a competitive market and adopting the right kinds of technology-powered services can help them stand out,” the report states. Sous vide” Indeed.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

Today, Farmstead is fairly small – its delivery footprint is limited to San Francisco and the Bay Area – and it doesn’t carry the 40,000 SKUs that most grocery stores do. What we see in many markets is eventually we have best-in-class prices to go along with our best-in-class, highly fresh produce,” noted Elankumaran.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

And digital technology’s ongoing work of tying together global markets, combined with the spread of FinTech , is leading to the problem of payment fragmentation. So what can merchants do in trying to navigate a landscape that, at least in near-term, promises even more payment innovation and fragmentation, according to observers?

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 31, 2019

Seeing other customers in the store raising their eyebrows, the store manager, a very amicable person in her 50s, walked up to the group and read the house rules from a placard. The teens scoffed at the manager’s dictation of how they’re supposed to behave, and amusingly grew annoyed for being deprived of some social media mobile device time.

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