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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It partners with well-known brands like Starbucks, Airbnb and Whole Foods Markets to provide discounts to banking customers. The company raised close to $200 million in financing from a list of venture capital (VC) firms, including Discovery Capital, Canaan Partners and Polaris Venture Capital, among others, with support dating back to 2009.

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MAY 3, 2017

Corporate venture capital has been an increasingly popular trend over the last several years — particularly among larger, established and older firms hoping to stay on the cutting edge of technological progress. . — all of which have a space on Salesforce’s platform.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The most transformative innovations in payments and commerce over the last decade are mostly the result of innovators making what was once visible, invisible: payments, stores, merchants, brands, issuers, even card networks. In 2009, Uber made payments disappear. The Invisible Innovators . I just take it for granted that it all works.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

The rates of delinquencies still remain below the levels during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, but any uptick means there will be higher loan losses for the financial companies, noted Reuters. Synchrony and Alliance Data are focused on the store-branded, private label credit card market.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The sub-prime mortgage segment has also performed strongly in terms of delinquencies, in line with overall trends in the mortgage world since 2009. According to the report, both firms are used as reliable gauges of American consumers’ ability to handle debt, since neither brand caters to affluent or super-prime credit consumers.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

The world of 2009 was starkly different, a far less optimistic place. Though the Great Recession was technically “over” by the middle of 2009, few people living in the real economy felt that fact in their daily lives. When people asked “what’s next?” in the year 1999, they were generally pretty excited to hear the answer.

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MARCH 16, 2016

In his place, corporate venture capital leader Claudia Fan Munce assumed his seat on the board as of Monday, though Anderson will remain with the retailer until its yearly shareholder conference in June. “I Paul Business Journal explained. “It

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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

AUGUST 2, 2017

And InContext has put together a fairly notable gallery of brands and retailers to which it seeks to bring its virtual insights: Nestle, Smucker’s, Kellogg’s, Anheuser-Busch and Walgreens have all experimented with InContext’s thus-far cloud-based VR solution for enterprise.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

billion investment in improvements across the brand. Since it was real estate that had tanked the economy, the market more or less froze solid for all but the well-capitalized. Positioning Against a Downturn… When the recession hit about a decade ago, every retailer was affected. However, Home Depot was hit especially hard.

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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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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: May 21, 2009. When you’re a powerhouse brand, it can be hard to see that the times are changing.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 20, 2015

Payment processor, WePay has just added $40 million in new funding to its investment total , courtesy of a Series D investment led by FTV Capital. The Series D round takes WePay’s overall capital to more than $75 million. FTV Capital partner Chris Kinship will join WePay’s Board of Directors as part of the deal.

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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

JUNE 5, 2019

To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. You have enormous brands and massive amounts of consumers involved. ‘That Would Be Our Business Model Going Forward’. Step back a bit first. There is no room for failure,” Cregan said.

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Gonzobanker

JULY 7, 2015

Here’s the bottom line: In the past six years (March 2009 to March 2015), the top 10 Internet banks have grown an impressive $175 billion in new deposits. Here’s the breakdown of these 10 banks in order of deposit growth: Deposits ($000): March 2009 Deposits ($000): March 2015 6-Year Growth. ($000). Think about this. billion in 2010.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Getting consumers over that first hump — buying those items online — was done by making friends with the brands whose products consumers already knew, bought and trusted: Bounty paper towels, Tide laundry detergent, Pringles potato chips, Folgers coffee. The same can be observed for baby wipes.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Consumers seem to have gotten their shopping groove back, and brands that had doubtful looking futures as recently as six months ago are showing strength – and not just in fit-and-start surges, but more consistently. percent in Q1, in line with averages since 2009. Economists are predicting that Q2 will show 4 percent growth in U.S.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Daimler sells both passenger cars and vans under the Mercedes brand and manufactures trucks and buses under a wide range of other marques. In March 2017, moovel’s North America arm also helped launch the Austin, TX-based MobilityX accelerator with Capital Factory. Looking for more data on automaker startup activity?

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Tech and Finance

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In this newly created role, Basker will lead two strategically important pillars in the growth agenda for Zafin — capitalizing on business opportunities through a coordinated transformation of Zafin solutions, processes and disciplines to achieve scale and speed and global expansion of advisory services.

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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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Jeff For Banks

MAY 31, 2017

Look at the decline in branches since 2009. And when my friend and fellow bank consultant Mary Beth Sullivan from Capital Performance Group in DC shared the post in the below pic on LinkedIn, it stirred a spirited rebuttal. Are branches dead? The conventional wisdom from the shouters would be yes. Look at transaction counts.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

They were much more interested in a mobile point of sale unit they could brand and we would white label. Back in 2009, the Apple iStore and Facebook Connect had just come out, and a group of friends and I saw these disruptive forces and thought that we could harness them and build a social payments app. So that’s what we did.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 31, 2014

But these are massive retail banks and I''d think that virtual holiday decorations would be in the branding budget. My guess is that holiday promotions simply don''t drive measurable sales lift. Perhaps that too, was tapped out by year end. Following is a quick overview of the promotions, including a 1- to 5-bulb rating.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

million in new capital using the same convertible note strategy the company used last year to raise $2.2 Issuers can present their offerings to registered intermediaries in an online showcase, while giving intermediaries the ability to provide investors with a branded investment experience. WealthForge will raise $2.5

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NCR

MARCH 8, 2016

This is a company that’s become synonymous with innovation, commands unprecedented customer loyalty, generates massive coverage, enjoys huge brand recognition and continues to benefit from gigantic revenue, profits and market capitalization. Still, the lengths that Apple is being asked to go to now seem like a stretch.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. However, the model doesn’t currently allow companies to issue new shares, meaning that DPOs do not raise any capital for the company. STAYING PRIVATE.

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JULY 15, 2015

For its part, Insight underscored Fenergo’s brand and product strength, as well as the management team, in explaining the reasons behind his firm’s investment. Fenergo is a leading provider of client lifestyle management solutions for investment banks, private banks, and capital markets firms.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 19, 2015

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APRIL 4, 2016

Kathryn Petralia, COO and co-founder of Kabbage praised Santander UK’s “preeminent global brand” as well as the bank’s “deep financial expertise, large customer base, and a shared passion for innovation.”

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APRIL 16, 2020

2009 (a 17-month dive). And it took the rest of the decade for the capital to gravitate to all the good ideas. The crash : Banks were just starting to test the digital waters in 2006 and early 2007 when the bottom dropped out of their balance sheets. The S&P dropped 56% from its peak in Oct 2007 to the bottom in Mar.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Look back to 2009, when peerTransfer was just an idea at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For us to go to 100 countries and territories and tell the payors ‘this is the best way to pay’ – well, that is something that would have required ridiculous amounts of capital,” he said.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. Yet the Gonzo team has to give a shout out to the late entry of Texas Capital and Independent Bank. The Tech Award – Goes to Capital One. Best of luck in the next chapter, Chris!

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Lex Sokolin

MAY 25, 2020

Because apparently, Goldman Sachs is considering buying up Wells Fargo, PNC, or US Bancorp to accelerate its transformation into a consumer banking brand. We have the world’s best investment bank and institutional capital markets business, but something doesn’t feel right. In this missive, we are all the CEO of Goldman Sachs.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Notably, Solyndra’s rise coincided with the passing of 2009’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, which contained various subsidies and promises of investment for sustainable US energy initiatives. In March 2009, the US government announced it planned to award Solyndra a guaranteed loan of $535M as part of that initiative.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Déjà vu because it was 10 years ago, in May of 2009, that Facebook launched the alpha version of Facebook Credits. First stop on Facebook’s capital raising tour: The big guns with successful payments rails, loads of money and a demonstrable appetite to invest in innovation. It shut down in 2012, 15 months after its official launch.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Capital One was the first bank to go live with an Alexa integration. In a Fintech Trending post earlier this month, we highlighted Capital One’s live integration and Lloyd Bank’s proof of concept with Amazon’s Alexa. ExxonMobil, Glympse, iHeartRadio, MasterCard, and Parkopedia are the first brands to join the platform.

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