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Mastercard Selects New President For European Operations

PYMNTS

He will be tasked with developing strategy, direction and comprehensive success of Mastercard’s operations across 53 countries in Europe. He joined Mastercard in 2003 and headed the company’s European and global consulting divisions. . Mark brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience.

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MercadoLibre: The ‘Amazon Of Latin America’ Spreads Its Wings

PYMNTS

In Latin America, such a company exists in the form of MercadoLibre , a triple-threat regional financial powerhouse based in Argentina. It is one of the region’s fastest-growing companies, having just turned in a stellar first quarter in a region that has more complexities than any of its northern neighbors. ”

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KKR To Acquire German Digital Payments Firm Heidelpay

PYMNTS

Founded in 2003, Heidelpay enables its clients to accept online and mobile payments and is used by more than 30,000 merchants, including companies such as L’Oréal. A person familiar with KKR’s strategy said the buyout group hoped to expand by adding customers in Germany.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

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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A Tale of Two Cities (Conference Season)

Celent Banking

The T24 overhaul appears to have already borne fruit, with the Swedish retail bank Nordea Bank signing up last September to implement T24 across its regional base of 10.8 million retail and 500,000 corporate customers in several Nordic countries.

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Autopsy Report: 9 Startup Failure Stories And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

After soaring to a multi-billion-dollar valuation behind an iconic founder, a team of prominent backers, and a promise to revolutionize blood testing, Theranos officially ceased operations in 2018. Theranos was founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, then an undergraduate student at Stanford University’s School of Engineering.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

CB Insights

Expertise: An experienced operator’s perspective on a problem and the different ways that it can be solved. There’s a complexity to getting these tools operational that compounds at scale. Bain, which has helped hundreds of similar businesses undergo their “digital transformation,” has that deep operator expertise.