PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Lego sales jumped 14 percent in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period last year, while the company’s operating profit increased 11 percent to $622 million. Nintendo’s operating profit surged 428 percent in its most recent quarter, built on surging sales of the Switch and Switch Lite consoles and the “Animal Crossing” game.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

Metro Cash and Carry entered the Indian market in 2003 and largely operates as a wholesaler for local neighborhood grocery stores, hotels and restaurants. The company already runs a smart kirana program that has enabled 500 small retailers to transition to some form of digitization.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Jack In the Box acquired Qdoba restaurants in 2003, when it was an 85-location chain with around $65 million in annual sales. We are firmly committed to Qdoba’s continued growth as a leading fast casual restaurant operator.”. percent in pre-market trading Tuesday to $103 following the news. Jack In The Box’s stock rose 2.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

Drexler, who has been CEO since 2003, will continue to serve as chairman. I’m very open to a strong operating executive who knows how to partner well with merchandising and design,” he said. According to The Wall Street Journal , James Brett, president of West Elm, will takeover as CEO next month. in 2010.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

Imagine if a North American company had the market share of Amazon, the payment flexibility of PayPal and the credit portfolio of Visa. It now operates in 18 countries in Latin America. It launched as the eCommerce industry took off in 2003, and has seen a surge in usage with the pandemic. percent year over year. ”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

They’re still part of the market, particularly the holiday shopping market in 2020. With the bankruptcy of Toy R Us in 2017, the market didn’t only lose its dominant seller of children’s toys. million, the brand’s biggest quarterly sales since 2003. Dueling Toy Books.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

More so than the average SMB, independent pharmacies are particularly affected by the state of the healthcare market and its regulatory shifts. While all small businesses may struggle with cash flow, certain market forces in the pharmaceuticals and healthcare space make owning a small pharmacy a challenging endeavor.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

That comes in the wake of BEC scams that are growing as a threat to companies of all sizes and industries as they conduct B2B operations. The South China Morning Post reports that the SFC has set up a form online through a page titled “Reporting corporate fraud and market misconduct.”

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Washington Fraud Security Report 122

PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

and around the world, it seems the Japanese market is dropping from a place of prominence. Walmart has been operating in Japan for the last 16 years — a time described as “tumultuous” by the Financial Times ( FT ). The Japanese market for mass merchandisers fell 6 percent in retail value to ¥6.7

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eBook Retail Marketing Report 100

PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Necco had moved its operations to a large 50-acre site after leaving its longtime plant just outside Boston in 2003. Bubble gum sales, for example, have declined by more than 40 percent over the last decade, and the market for chewing gum in general rests at $3 billion — a decline of more than 8 percent in the same timeframe.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

These legal victories have significantly expanded the market opportunity for surcharging,” Razi said, and represent a tipping point for the five remaining states that have bans in place – Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Kansas and Oklahoma – to narrow their scope or drop them altogether. population.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Yes, I know that for many of you, especially in California, this is old news and standard operating procedure – but hear me out. The card networks left it up to the states to decide whether or not to allow its operating merchants to do so. Surcharging has been permitted Down Under since 2003. Innovation by Any Other Name.

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Regulation Boston Cards Innovation 181

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The use of prepaid cards has exploded over the last decade or so — in 2003 consumers put less than $1 billion on prepaid cards annually, but by 2012 that figure had grown to $65 billion and by 2018 that figure is projected to reach as much as $121 billion. The user base of prepaid cards has grown significantly as well.

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Cards Google Tools Regulation 189

Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 5, 2012

The average profitability of fee-based products was -10% during the first quarter of 2003, and is –7% during the first quarter of 2012. But we have to be cautious comparing a community financial institution’s brokerage operation to Charles Schwab. They typically operate independently, containing HR, IT, and Marketing Departments.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. He later joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers as a partner for a period between 1999 and 2003. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: Philadelphia, PA. Operating Location: Menlo Park, CA.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

True or false: Thanks to mobile devices and apps, American consumers spend more time today shopping than they did in 2003. In 2003, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that American consumers spent roughly 48 minutes a day shopping offline and online. In 2005, online sales accounted for 2.3

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Over the last few years, large tech companies have entered the healthcare sector, increasing internal R&D and private market activity in the space. Below, we compiled a list of the top 10 tech companies in the US by market cap (as of 9/6/18) and analyzed their private market activity in the healthcare space. First Name.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money. Date: March 20, 2003. Google and Motorola. Date: August 15, 2011. Price: $6.3B.

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NCR

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There have also been systems adopted in markets like the UK and Canada that allow images of checks to be captured the moment they are deposited. During this integration period, two clearing systems will operate in parallel. percent in value between 2012 and 2015, the decline was slower than in earlier periods since 2003.

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System Payments Mobile Innovation 53

BankUnderground

JULY 20, 2022

The BLS is a quarterly survey through which euro area banks are asked about developments in their respective credit markets since 2003 (for more detailed information see Köhler-Ulbrich, Hempell and Scopel (2016) ). Our identification strategy exploits heterogeneous exposure to negative rates across banks. Four key results.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2016

The funding is a striking portrait of demand by investors with dry powder to gain entry into a nascent, technology driven market. But there are such things as natural market forces, and price discovery that comes in tandem. These are the businesses that look simple but are the hardest businesses to operate. And do that at scale.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 26, 2016

Online payment solution SafetyPay began operations in its 21st country this week. The Florida-based company now operates in Belgium, expanding its global footprint which covers the U.S., For SafetyPay, expanding operations in Europe fulfills one of the company’s strategic objectives. Canada, Europe, and Latin America.

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Florida Maine America Operations 12

Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

imberly Anderson, senior vice president and chief administrative officer of Cañon National Bank in southern Colorado, became her community bank’s loan compliance officer in 2003. It teaches bankers how to develop a compliance program, meet lending compliance requirements, and comply with deposit and marketing regulations. By Ed Avis.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In 2003, the Human Genome Project was completed after fully sequencing and mapping the genetic code of a human being. The second framework that’s useful is whether the company is operating to satisfy consumer curiosity or whether its applications have medical relevance. and making several private market investments.

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Trends Data Software Analytics 55

Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 9, 2016

After three years managing and overseeing financial operations for The Phone House, Leonore Van Waaij will take her talents to Backbase as the company’s new – and first -Chief Financial Officer. In its 2015 metrics report , Backbase noted more than 60 large FI clients, serving more than 70 million end users in 25 countries.

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Management Retail Operations Software 12

PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

The big daddy of the video rental industry at the time was Blockbuster , and it operated more than 4,500 such outlets. Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 with a market cap of $12 million, down from $4 billion just a decade before in 2002 — the year that Netflix IPO’d. By June 2003, DVD rentals overtook VHS rentals.

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Payments Video Marketing Course 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In Beijing, many stores across multiple retail markets are closed. The move was to be completed through reverse repo operations as the country reopens its stock market Monday (Feb. The new virus is a plausible catalyst for a market correction.”. 3) from the extended Lunar New Year holiday.

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United States Marketing National Capital 147

CB Insights

AUGUST 30, 2017

In 2003, the Human Genome Project was completed after fully sequencing and mapping the genetic code of a human being. The second framework that’s useful is whether the company is operating to satisfy consumer curiosity or whether its applications have medical relevance. and making several private market investments.

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Trends Data Software Company 41

PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. But it would be over the next four years that eBay would find itself increasingly pulled into a riptide of changing market dynamics.

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Online Retail San Francisco Mobile 128

PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The iTunes storefront for purchasing music, movies and TV may remain up and running within the major apps, but it will be less of a central focus as Apple redirects its attention to the booming subscription eCommerce market. It also came to the market at just the right time – about 10 months before the iPod hit the market in October 2001.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. “Microsoft will roll [Salesforce] over,” Thomas Siebel of Siebel Systems flatly told Bloomberg in 2003. Bitcoin is a highly speculative market. The iPhone and iPod. Bitcoin is a bubble.”

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Bitcoin Apple Industry Nebraska 78

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. “Microsoft will roll [Salesforce] over,” Thomas Siebel of Siebel Systems flatly told Bloomberg in 2003. Bitcoin is a highly speculative market. The iPhone and iPod. Bitcoin is a bubble.”

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Bitcoin Apple Innovation Industry 65

CFPB Monitor

MARCH 10, 2022

In a related development, the Treasury Department announced that the Financial Literacy and Education Commission (FLEC) “would form a new subgroup on digital asset financial education, which will operate alongside the FLEC’s current workstream analyzing the impact of climate change on household and community financial resilience.

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FDIC National cryptocurrency Leadership 148

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Founded in 2003, uShip began as a way to connect large shipments with empty truck space. Today, uShip operates in 19 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Austin Texas and Amsterdam. With uShip specifically, there was inbound interest last summer, and given how big the market opportunity is, it made sense for us to pursue.”.

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Austin Online Texas Operations 122

PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

What they didn’t have as of 2003, after over 60 years in business, was any cash. They’ve also expanded in bridal registries, and have built an experimental retail destination in San Francisco designed to “bring together a wide array of makers, tinkerers, bakers and small-scale operators into a single creative space,” according to Bailey.

Retail 108

Retail San Francisco Branding Operations 108

PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

What they didn’t have, as of 2003 with over 60 years in business, was any cash. They’ve also expanded in bridal registries, built an experimental retail destination in San Francisco designed to “bring together a wide array of makes, tinker, bakers and small-scale operators into a single creative space,” according to Bailey.

Retail 100

Retail San Francisco Branding Operations 100

Abrigo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Once accounting for 46 percent of bank revenue (2003), more recently, noninterest income averages closer to 34 percent (2018). Noninterest income associated with the housing markets such as securitization, trading, and real estate slowed significantly during the financial crisis and beyond. And it is trending downward.

Community Bank 195

Community Bank Community FDIC Trends 195