PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

On this day in history in the year 2009, the world of payments and commerce was changed forever. No, we’re not talking about the launch of Square – that was in February of 2009. We always want to talk to innovators and those who understand them best. True in 2009. Well, that’s how we remember it, anyway.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Kalanick, along with Sequoia Capital, participated in a $7.6 Instead, it uses truck operators and third-party logistics. Basically, Kargo is trying to streamline the connection between users and the actual logistics operators. Kalanick, noted the paper, has been an investor in Kareo for several years, dating back to 2009.

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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. That experience made him appreciate even more just how difficult it can be to move customers from one payment method to another without real innovation. Step back a bit first.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

In the case of Square — the payments innovator that launched hundreds of mPOS imitators — the small problem was $2,000 worth of handblown glass that artisan Jim McKelvey couldn’t close the deal and sell. Launched in 2014 as the firm’s lending arm, Square Capital has extended over $1 billion in working capital to over 100,000 small merchants.

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PYMNTS

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

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 26, 2017

“A core part of our business transformation program will involve creating an internal, centralized KYC target operating model that will help us to simultaneously improve the client experience and reduce the cost impact of the regulator KYC activities,” Erftemeijer said.

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BankUnderground

JULY 2, 2021

Battiston et al (2017) exploit a natural experiment involving 999 call handlers and radio operators in the United Kingdom. Smith-Jackson and Klein (2009) study the effect of background noise on task completion rates and find negative consequences of noisier open spaces on performance.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. “So, The DOJ Finding. In 2010, LendingClub added to its war chest with a $24.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

PYMNTS: How does what you learn from people shape WePay’s innovation agenda? PYMNTS: Do you have any “formula” for innovation? PYMNTS: What is the one thing that people underestimate about igniting payments innovations? A shining example of customer innovation. BC: We only build what our customers want.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Date: May 21, 2009. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The company entered the unicorn club in Q2’17, following a $1B Series D from CCB International and Sequoia Capital China. Investors in Mobike’s unicorn round included Hillhouse Capital Management, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Sequoia Capital China, and Tencent Holdings. It was valued at $7B at the time.

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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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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 14, 2016

The move will enable the bank to better serve companies outside of Europe, and comes less than a year after the innovative FI opened offices in the U.K. To lead operations in Dubai, Fidor Bank has hired Gé Drossaert (pictured) to serve as Managing Director. Munich-based Fidor Bank is expanding to Dubai.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Increased expenses, supply chain inefficiencies, and the need to enhance operating results contributed to the perfume retailer’s bankruptcy, which was court-approved in October.

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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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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 26, 2016

A year-over-year gain of 219% in new bookings growth is the highlight of a record fourth quarter from financial-supply-chain innovator, Taulia , which added 50,000 suppliers across 71 countries in Q4. Cedric Bru, Taulia CEO, called Holzapfel a “powerhouse” and praised her expertise in strategic marketing and operations.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 4, 2016

Pictured (left to right): Kabbage Director of Payment Operations, Michelle Sirpak, and Head of Product, Jason Dell demonstrating the Kabbage Card at FinovateSpring 2015 in San Jose. Join us in sunny San Jose, California May 10 & 11 for feast of fintech innovation. Rob Frohwein is CEO. Tickets are on sale now.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2017

XL Innovate. HCS went through a major management shakeup in November 2016 when former AIG head of commercial insurance strategy and innovation Greg Wolyniec joined as president and CEO, while AIG president of liability and financial lines Alexander Baugh was named chairman of HCS’s board of directors. American Family Ventures.

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

XL Innovate. HCS went through a major management shakeup in November 2016 when former AIG head of commercial insurance strategy and innovation Greg Wolyniec joined as president and CEO, while AIG president of liability and financial lines Alexander Baugh was named chairman of HCS’ board of directors. Allianz Ventures.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

doesn’t have to be paved with a 500+ person task force analyzing what the world would look like if we were starting from a clean sheet of paper, competing propositions for who’s going to build and operate a new set of rails, or even what sort of spiffy software can make existing rails faster. The path to faster payments in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A decade ago, an entrepreneur wanting to raise cash pretty much had to have rich relatives or pals, or gain entry into the clubby world of venture capital. My, how much has changed since 2009. That doesn’t mean such businesses rely on crowdsourced funding, however – at least 177 have used Seedrs to raise capital.

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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. It is an innovator with tech (e.g., The Tech Award – Goes to Capital One.

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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. Curtain Call: The media goes nuts. Social gaming.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

It should be a call to action to the cybersecurity regulators that, when innovation — even intellectually and technologically sophisticated innovation — goes off the rails, it’s time to give a good hard look with an eye to reining it way, way in. That means bitcoin. despite many other countries already giving it a thumbs up.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

B2B payments innovators and Warren Buffet have something in common: They are both obsessed with rails. Warren Buffet made rails sexy again when he bought a railroad in 2009. Today, a host of innovators are making B2B payments rails sexy again too. Topic Two: Banks — sure, they’re boring as all get out, but they are innovating.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In a $460 million deal, Texas-based ATM operator Cardtronics has acquired Canada-based DirectCash Payments. Capital One integration with Amazon Echo. Capital One is the only bank with a live Alexa integration (called “Skill”), but Lloyds Bank put together a proof of concept this spring. Big handshakes.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Brown, instead of managers getting stock options or guaranteed bonuses, every manager got paid $7,800 a year (the equivalent of about $14,500 today), plus “a designated percentage of the profits of the company after these are reduced by a charge for capital employed.”. The result of this type of plan was to make each manager at H.

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CB Insights

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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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2011: Self-service platforms unlock innovation. 2009: Focus on inputs — the outputs will take care of themselves. 2004: Free cash flow enables more innovation. 2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2016: Move fast and focus on outcomes.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Dockless systems, which allow users to park their bike or scooter anywhere along the sidewalk rather than in a fixed docking station, are more convenient and less costly to scale given lower capital costs, as operators don’t have to build out fixed stations. A vandalized Bird scooter. Mid-length transport.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Few places are more receptive to new ideas and innovative business models than Silicon Valley. Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: BlackRock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The biggest investment of the week came in the form of 51credit.com, where the Chinese credit card management outfit garnered $84 million from Harvest Capital and Yintai Group. The credit facility also allows for the company to access additional working capital. came in with 41 percent of the tally, followed by China at 35 percent. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

This week was one of the latter, as Walmart hosted its investor meeting in Arkansas and Amazon decided this week’s menu of technological innovations in retail would be an all-you-can-eat buffet. 8 was created by Marc Lore, to create partnerships AI innovators and emerging tech entrepreneurs. And that was just the serious stuff.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

law firm, the Israeli FinTech industry has skyrocketed since 2009. banking giant Barclays recently launched its Barclays Accelerator in Tel Aviv , marking the ongoing race to capitalize on what some are calling the “hottest FinTech scene.” and accelerating the availability of medical innovations.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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