BankUnderground

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I find that persistent debt booms led financially constrained firms to cut back on investment, across both capital expenditures and intangible assets. For instance, credit deepening and the quality of financial intermediation create the conditions for faster investment and economic growth ( King and Levine (1993) and Levine (2005) ).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

We have invested heavily in the restaurant technology industry as part of our focus on eCommerce and are very impressed with the work Olo has done to help restaurant brands benefit from digital ordering adoption by acting as their digital interface and technology backbone,” Shleifer said. “We We believe Olo has a long runway ahead.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The debt load came care of a 2005 $7.5 billion buyout by private equity investors KKR, Bain Capital, and Vornado Realty Trust. The brand further released that it has secured a commitment from some lenders, including a syndicate led by JPMorgan, for around $3 billion in debtor-in-possession financing.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Capital One made the headlines then – a genius move, many called it at that time, for an issuer that lacked demand in deposit accounts and had no other way to provide a debit-like offering that would make their brand sticky to consumers. And each time, the headlines were all about how great these merchant-branded initiatives would be.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2018

There have been a number of great commercial jingles in the history of commercials — tunes so catchy that they stick, almost forever, and remind us of brand names simply by nature of being so catchy. Toys R Us had also taken on a massive amount of debt — thanks to being taken private in 2005, via a $6.6

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2018

And fueling it all was the rise of television, where brands such as Mattel could market their toys directly to children — stoking the fires of demand. Or perhaps it was when the company was bought out by private equity firms in 2005. Toys R Us went public in 1978. Slow Decline Sets in. Lazarus handed off the reins as CEO in 1994.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

According to a consultant hired by Total Hockey to help it right the ship, comparable same-store sales for the brand, which runs about 27 locations spread across the Midwest, were positive for every quarter up until Q4 2015, when they took an 8 percent dive. Not every brand that closes its doors did so last week in infamy, though.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Innovations from 1995 to 2014 (with launch dates) Note: Ranking as of Jan 2014 Wells Fargo is first in the world to offer Web-statement access (launched May 1995) Security First Network Bank launches first full-service Internet bank brand (Oct 1995, disbanded 2002) PayPal launches first online optimized payment system (Nov 1999, bought by eBay in 2003) (..)

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Amazon introduced Prime and free two-day shipping in 2005, when buying online was still a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of all retail sales. In 2018, more than nine billion dollars of venture capital money was invested in startups using AI to improve certainty across a range of use cases. Certainty as Retail’s Disruptor.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For Google’s part, it kept releasing its own branded phones under the Nexus brand, partnering with Samsung, Asus, and LG to manufacture these devices, and further eroding the value of the Motorola acquisition. Date : September 2005. Date: August 12, 2005. Date: July 2005. Date: March 24, 2005.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The sequel, “ Meet The Fockers ,” released in December of 2004, was among the top-grossing films of 2005. At their peak in 2005 , DVDs were a $16.3 Dining out, though, is just one example of the consumer’s “don’t have to but want to” activities that brands can meet with digital-first solutions to keep consumers engaged.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

By 2005, the firm was profitable and, by 2006, had sold over 2 million cards. He was able to manage the business until it turned a profit, raising very little outside capital. That’s when Green Dot made its first major pivot, pulled back all its cards from the Rite Aid shelves and repackaged them with a more adult-oriented target.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

capital appreciation and dividends. Open Bank (OTCQB: OPBK) Open Bank commenced operations in 2005 as First Standard Bank in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. The lion''s share of their growth, profitability, and capital have come since their re-branding to Open Bank in 2010. Congratulations to them.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 30, 2016

Combined with the company’s December 2015 round of $65 million, this brings its total capital to $85 million. Launched in 2005, BizFi offers a host of funding options, including equipment financing, invoice financing, SBA loans, and more. ” BizFi’s marketplace and funding technologies have furnished $1.7

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 16, 2020

movement in 2005/2006, the financial crisis hit. Other than the brief 2005/2006 period, there had really been relatively little investment in digital for more than 10 years and things just took off like a rocket ship. And it took the rest of the decade for the capital to gravitate to all the good ideas. Related: Top U.S.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2015

The debt financing will help the New York-based company: Expand its financing programs to meet the capital needs of small businesses. Build brand awareness. Since its 2005 launch, Bizfi has provided $1.3+ small businesses. Decrease the amount of time it takes for businesses to receive financing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. In 2012, eBay CEO John Donahoe , who had taken over from Meg Whitman in 2008 , more or less told retailers that “Amazon is your enemy, eBay is your friend” to persuade them to upload their product catalogues to branded eBay storefronts. From the Living Room to the Basement.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

Media companies, in the meantime, shoveled tens of millions into Snap in the hopes of selling to a generation whose brand loyalty is about as fleeting as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s affection for each of her nine husbands. This comScore chart shows that audience breakdown and made the tech press and event circuit rounds in force. They eventually fall.

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 25, 2020

Many of the companies being sold were started between 2005 and 2015. Because apparently, Goldman Sachs is considering buying up Wells Fargo, PNC, or US Bancorp to accelerate its transformation into a consumer banking brand. Capital markets and private wealth bets come naturally to the company. no more of the same old.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.” ( 2005 ). “Be Each manager, in other words, would receive a portion of the company’s profits less the amount that they spent, in terms of capital, to generate those profits — a reminder to all that capital was not without costs. It had a great brand.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

The easiest possible summary is that in a post-apocalyptic future, the United States has become the Kingdom of Panem, which consists of a rich, technologically vibrant capital city ringed by 12 impoverished agrarian or industrial districts that are exploited for their resources by wealthy residents of the capitol. In the U.S.,

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Founded: 2005. The company’s assets were acquired by Q Holdings in 2015, and the firm quietly relaunched the Quirky brand in 2017. Second, the thesis that one or two brands would quickly go on to own on-demand food turned out to be either wrong or too early. Dart Music. Earth Class Mail. Declared Bankruptcy: 2011.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

The payments ecosystem grew up around that model, enabling acceptance of network-branded credit cards and debit cards across all physical merchants at scale. In 2005, Amazon introduced Prime, and promised two-day free shipping for Prime members. Yet, the online checkout experience remained largely inconsistent and friction-filled.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. The Honest Company’s branding and promotional materials claimed that the firm’s goods were free of synthetic chemicals. Bouxtie’s broken promises.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2005: Don’t get fixated on short-term numbers. Customers love it, it can grow to very large size, it has strong returns on capital, and it’s durable in time—with the potential to endure for decades. 2005: Don’t get fixated on short-term numbers. The only ways to differentiate is to narrow down to price and brand.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 17, 2016

. “We will continue to forge these white label partnerships with companies that have existing small business relationships,” Sheinbaum said, “with the goal of solidifying the Bizfi brand and expanding our reach.” Founded in 2005 and headquartered in New York City, Bizfi demonstrated its technology at FinovateFall 2015.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

JULY 13, 2016

Inaugurated in 2005, Kingfisher Airlines… never made money, not in one year. The more cynical among you might just note this as another example the subverted corporatist version of capitalism that we are familiar with today, where profits are privatised and losses are socialised, and put it to one side. Well, these things happen.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Bain, whose co-founders would go on to start Bain Capital, had a particular expertise in finance from the beginning. Mitt Romney, center, began his career at BCG but made his real fortune as vice president of Bain & Company and co-founder of Bain Capital — specialization-wise, a fitting career move.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Khosla Ventures also backed Cafe X Technologies in Q1’17, alongside The Thiel Foundation, Felicis Ventures, and Social Capital. The company went public in 2005 after raising $37M from investors including FA Technology Ventures, Fenway Partners, iD TechVentures, iD Ventures America, and Trident Capital. Retail salespersons.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

Key people: Chris Curtin, Chief Brand & Innovation Marketing Officer; Shiv Singh, Senior Vice President of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships. Founded: 1999 and 2005. Capital One — Capital One Labs. Key people: James Patterson, Managing VP & Head of Capital One Labs at Capital One.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 9, 2018

This spread of misinformation, amplified by high engagement, has impacted individuals and brands alike. Select Investors: Passion Capital, Storm Ventures, Ten Eleven Ventures. Select Investors: BlueYard Capital, Fred Ehrsam, and Piotr Smolen. DIGITAL SHADOWS. Total Disclosed Funding: $48M. PERIMETERX. Latest Round: N/A.

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Signature has been so successful that it''s growth was beginning to put strains on Bank Hapoalim''s capital. So in 2004, Signature went public and in 2005 Bank Hapoalim divested its controlling interest. From 2006 through the second quarter of 2011, the bank''s assets grew from $5.4 billion to $13.1

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Between 1956 and 2005, 1,500 malls were built in the U.S. Brands today don’t even need stores – they can now go directly to the consumer, on channels like Instagram.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In the process, these brands, spanning everything from detergent to sneakers, are radically changing consumer preferences and expectations. These well-positioned startups are not just competing with some of the biggest retail brands in mattresses, razors, shoes, and more, by launching their own brands.

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