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JULY 18, 2018

dollars on its balance sheet after it raised $4 billion in new capital late last year. Building on its leadership and expertise in the global online travel market, Booking is championing a digital revolution of travel experience. Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing has received $500 million in funding from Booking Holdings.

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JULY 20, 2018

Prashanth Ranganathan, the company’s co-founder, told the outlet that “the consumer lending market in India is ripe for disruption and this capital will equip us to focus on this huge, untapped market potential.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

Finlyte Partners has launched a new central office services platform that will provide Finance-as-a-Service (FaaS), consulting and capital for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). ” Finlyte is a technology-driven business solutions provider for emerging and established startups and middle-market companies. . ”

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JULY 16, 2018

In a PayPal press release , the company said that in addition to its investment, Citi Ventures and returning investor HPE Growth Capital participated in the round of fundraising. According to PayPal , in many markets, consumers are choosing to make payments via alternative methods, such as bank transfers, eWallets and cash.

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JULY 19, 2018

Earlier this year, DoorDash received a $535 million investment from SoftBank , Sequoia Capital and Singapore-based sovereign wealth fund GIC , bringing the food delivery company a $1.4 billion valuation. DoorDash plans to use the funding to expand into additional cities this year.

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JULY 20, 2018

It was only four months ago that Chef’d CEO Kyle Ransford predicted that big changes were coming to the meal kit market in a conversation with Karen Webster , and that meal kit providers were going to need to seriously update their business models to navigate a changing landscape. “I Meal kits are a changing market.

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JULY 16, 2018

A Growing Market. As more businesses turn to payroll cards, a range of providers are entering the market and hoping to capitalize on the growing demand for employee wage solutions. That includes payment solutions company Comdata , a division of fleet cards provider FLEETCOR , which offers a payroll card program.

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JULY 18, 2018

RBC Capital Markets estimates Amazon made between $1.5 If customers find an item for less on an eligible competitor’s website, eBay will give them 110 percent off the price difference for all eligible Deals and Top Products. billion and $2 billion in revenue from Prime Day, with gross merchandise value surpassing $3.5 billion.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Nubank’s other investors include Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, and Goldman Sachs. Innova Capital, Naspers.

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JULY 19, 2018

In fact, the Shudder platform has launched in several global markets since its initial debut, including Canada, the U.K., Because horror has such a broad appeal, Engler said a subscription-based model presents the best opportunity to capitalize on that interest and reach consumers. Ireland and Germany.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 17, 2018

Banking consumers take a middling view of today’s mobile banking applications, according to a study by Bank Innovation. In the survey conducted this month by Bank Innovation, banking consumers gave mobile banking a net promoter score of 12, which is in the bottom 25% to 50% of all NPS scores. NPS scores range from -100 to […].

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JULY 16, 2018

And, who knows: The market may catch up — one day, eventually — and make the wait worth it. Or the decision to cut and run comes too late to capitalize on what the market really wants. This uncertainty often forces businesses to find and access sources of working capital to fill the gaps, which comes at a cost.

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Filene

JULY 18, 2018

Credit unions who feel the calling to open their doors to this growing and upwardly mobile community have a great opportunity to capitalize on word-of-mouth momentum. The market opportunity expanded an estimated 8.3 The FDIC says more than 45 percent of Hispanic households were unbanked or underbanked in 2015. percent, compared to 1.4

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JULY 18, 2018

In the cryptocurrency market, some weeks are better than others. Its interest can have a bit of a ripple (no pun intended) effect, too, “and [can] encourage other asset managers, even with more conservative strategies, to seriously explore investing in the crypto space,” Black Square Capital Portfolio Manager Chris Yoo told Reuters.

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JULY 16, 2018

The month of July “has turned into a mini holiday shopping season,” PwC Consumer Markets Lead Steve Barr told CNBC. Even so, merchants aren’t deterred from offering their own deals and marketing around Prime Day. As a result of Prime Day’s popularity, retailers are stepping up to the plate to offer shoppers deals on their own sites.

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JULY 17, 2018

Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. The sophisticated food hall: North 3rd Street Market (Brooklyn). This approach to marketing is enabling a new wave of specialized fast-casual brands to take root.

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Gonzobanker

JULY 16, 2018

So, GonzoBankers, let’s quickly summarize how the banking industry has fared since Gates’ famous prediction regarding our demise: Since Mr. Gates’ grand prediction, bank operating revenue has tripled, earnings have quadrupled, and equity capital has quintupled. Revenue was under $4 billion back in 1994 and now is a staggering $90 billion.

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