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Japan’s Startup Index Soars To Highest Point Since 2006

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The Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Index , which tracks Japan’s startups, has climbed back up this year to finally match an earlier high set in 2006. 2 best-performing equity index in the Asia-Pacific region. Investors will need to carefully pick individual companies,” said Naoki Kamiyama , chief strategist at Nikko Asset Management Co.

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UK Card Spend Reaches Highest Level Since at Least 2006

FICO

But this year’s rise seems to also have been driven by inflation, pushing the amount of average credit card spend in the UK to the highest level since our UK Risk Benchmarking records began in 2006. For comparison with other regions, see FICO's analysis of Q4 card trends in Canada and the United States.

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UK Credit Card Trends: Cost-of-Living Stress Starts to Show in Data

FICO

No change month on month in percentage of payments to balance, suggesting continued pragmatic management of credit card accounts. Normal Regional Patterns but Hint of Troubles Ahead. The data sample comes from client reports generated by the FICO® TRIAD® Customer Manager solution in use by some 80 percent of UK card issuers.

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How Facebook Unfriends Ad Fraudsters

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Account takeovers (ATOs), identity theft and phishing were found to be the most common methods of attack in this region. This is the first year-over-year (YoY) decline in card fraud since AusPayNet first reported this statistic in 2006. The network found that Australia’s 2018 card fraud rate was 72.8 percent in 2018 from 13.9

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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By using funds managed by LCA to benefit its parent company, LCA and Laplanche failed to do so.”. We have full confidence in our new management team and we are a better company today.”. When LendingClub entered the market in 2006, Laplanche had one idea in mind: disrupt the banks. The Rundown on the Run-up to the Decisions.

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Visual IQ Offers Smart Attribution

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Founded in 2006, Visual IQ provides businesses with its SaaS-based IQ Intelligence Suite, which measures, analyzes and offers actionable data on its clients’ marketing efforts. Attribution should be part of anybody’s toolkit at this point,” said Phil Gross, VP of product management at Visual IQ.

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How To Live Forever In The Financial Services Space

PYMNTS

From user interface technology to security and risk management, the only constant in the financial space is that nothing stays the same for long. For example, we were the first in the Middle East region in 2006 to close the loop by sending back a text alert to the remitter that the beneficiary had collected the money.

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