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Best Buy’s Board Loses Former CEO

PYMNTS

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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Investors Back SaaS Accounting Helper SaaSOptics

PYMNTS

“I am committed to building our success to date, accelerating our leadership position in the burgeoning SaaS market and building even greater customer success, which is the foundation for everything we do.” ” SaaSOptics was founded in 2009 and services nearly 300 clients, the company said.

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Are you a bull or a bear, and how will it impact your planning for 2020 and beyond?

Gonzobanker

Regardless of their viewpoints on capital recovery, now is the time for banking leaders to reevaluate their planning strategies. In a recent Fortune survey, 55% of corporate executives said they expect to return to 2019 capital spending levels sometime in 2021. What businesses need capital in the interim? Capital will be king!

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Former StanChart Exec Joins Zafin

Tech and Finance

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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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

Date: May 21, 2009. When Cisco paid almost $600M for Pure Digital in 2009, it probably seemed like a great investment for their consumer products department; Pure Digital’s Flip HD digital camera was a hot seller at the time. After only two years, Google sold Motorola to Lenovo for $2.9B. Cisco and Pure Digital. Price: $590M.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

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. Leadership and board members. Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. Focus on developers.

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Taulia Raises $46 Millon in Series E; Names New CFO

Fintech Labs Insights

In a round led by Zouk Capital, financial supply-chain specialist Taulia has raised $46 million in new funding. The new infusion of capital takes the company’s total to more than $130 million. Zouk Capital CEO Samer Salty praised Taulia’s ability to “streamline and strengthen” the financial supply chain.