PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2017

Most people did not consider 2009 an ideal time to start any kind of small business — the credit markets had more or less squeezed shut, a staggering number of Americans found themselves on the unemployment rolls and the economy seemed like it might be on the brink of ruin. And that was a problem they could fix.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

By rapidly increasing our capacity to deliver trade finance, IFC and Citi can help businesses maintain their operations during the crisis and speed their recovery when the pandemic eases.”. The signing extends an existing fund under IFC’s Global Trade Liquidity Program, bringing the total to $2 billion.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

By rapidly increasing our capacity to deliver trade finance, IFC and Citi can help businesses maintain their operations during the crisis and speed their recovery when the pandemic eases.”. The signing extends an existing fund under IFC’s Global Trade Liquidity Program, bringing the total to $2 billion.

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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

JUNE 15, 2020

Innovators with better tech will appear and — literally overnight — snatch your customers out of your calcified incumbent arms and build scale, they say. The Fallacy Of ‘Internet Time’ In November of 1998, a book was published that captured the prevailing wisdom of startups operating at the time.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since 2009, Facebook has been blocked on all computers operating in China. Since 2009, the team over at Facebook has tried various approaches to ascertain what it wants to be — a dominant player in the Chinese social realm. This has paved the way for social media such as WeChat, QQ and Weibo to gain speed in the race to the top.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2020

Amazon will face new and different competition from the first time the eCommerce operator tried upscale fashion. Indeed, a decade ago, the concept of building a retail operation around shopping in other people’s closets was something of a hard sell. Part of the reason is changing consumer desires.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

Greene has been with FLEETCOR since 2009 when he joined as vice president for Corporate Development. Steve has proven himself to be an exceptional leader, and I am confident he will excel in this role as we look to drive global fuel card growth,” said Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Ron Clarke, to which Greene will report.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

million in sales on the first event in 2009. Lazada, a Singapore-based eCommerce site that has operations across Southeast Asia and is majority-owned by Alibaba, hosted its own sales. It’s all about how to innovate online and offline to a whole digitalized commercial world,” Zhang told CNBC.

Retail 158

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Tencent has been the digital media partner of the NBA in China since 2009. Meanwhile, Amazon and Alibaba have provided training for local merchants in setting up and operating stores as well as extending credit and logistics services to speed up delivery times. China’s Commerce Push. Alibaba Changes.

Retail 116

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

All Zum drivers must use vehicles that are no older than 2009 models. Buses are very expensive to operate and maintain,” she said, adding that not all schools offer ample bus service to the meet the needs of after-school activities. And it can take six to eight months to hire a bus driver.”.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

That includes allowing customers to open accounts completely online,” says Charles Potts, ICBA’s senior vice president and chief innovation officer. Offering digital account openings is no longer optional, according to Kathy Strasser, chief operating and chief information officer at $1.7 A ‘big bang’ for digital account opening.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Uber , Lyft , Fiverr , Airbnb , Postmates were the early names in the game, all founded between 2009 and 2011. Closing in on its 10th anniversary, Fiverr recently announced that over $1 billion has been earned by its global community of gig workers in the decade the company has been in operation. Some lasted; some did not.

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BankUnderground

JUNE 16, 2021

In 2009 at age 94, Paul Samuelson’s advice to economists was ‘Have a very healthy respect for the study of economic history, because that’s the raw material out of which any of your conjectures or testings will come’. The Bank’s Millenium of Macroeconomic Data is a good example of this. But it was not completely new.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

But here’s the rub: The guilty verdict was made on the basis of A&P’s use of supply chain innovations to lower prices to consumers. By 2009, A&P had shrunk in size and became a modestly sized regional chain. Its failure to keep innovating in the face of new players that did was A&P’s downfall. Lower prices.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

By combining our skills and expertise, and leveraging BillPay’s deep market knowledge, product features and consumer offerings, we are confident that we can offer even more innovative payment services to our customers,” said Sebastian Siemiatkowski, co-founder and CEO of Klarna, in a statement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

7), the transit-as-a-service operator is offering car and truck owners looking to offload their vehicles a deal: Sell those vehicles via online retail service Carvana and get in return $250 worth of Lyft credits, plus three months of free membership in Lyft’s new Lyft Pink membership subscription program.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

Although the current economic catastrophe is different in many ways than the previous one in 2008-2009 that B-Stock first launched in, one commonality, Rosenberg speculated, will be a resurgence in interest in the resale market.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

Anderson has a long and winding history with Best Buy , assuming the roles of president and chief operating officer from 1991 to 2002, when he moved a few rungs up the ladder to CEO, where he remained until 2009.

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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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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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NCR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Blockchain is the technology that allows bitcoin, the digital currency launched in 2009, to function. According to the WEF, blockchain has the potential to “profoundly alter” the way banks conduct their business worldwide, partly by reducing operating costs and making financial services more secure and accessible.

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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

Bitcoin grew explosively after its 2009 introduction by becoming the currency of choice for criminal commerce, including hiring hitmen , giving the term “killer app” new meaning. Blockchain technology is quite innovative. Again, it hasn’t worked out. There is some chance that it might. It solved a really significant friction well.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Butler remarked that 10 years ago, payments processor Square was just getting started, Stripe had just begun operations and Uber hit the road in March of 2009. Nor have biometrics advanced as far as he would have anticipated. Where We Are ….

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The Michigan High School Athletic Association, for instance, reported 12,722 registered sports officials in the 2008 to 2009 academic year, and that total fell to only 9,816 in the 2017 to 2018 season. Same-day cash offerings are certainly not the only innovations when it comes to making refereeing more compelling and convenient, though.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage this holiday season. We’ve assembled a list of innovation labs from some of the most recognizable names in retail looking to disrupt their industries. Get the 54-page retail report.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

We should note that apartments are getting smaller — in 2009, the average NYC apartment was around 1,000 square feet. The “innovative” solution for apartment residents thus far has been a combination of 2/3-sized versions of most household furniture married to some very creatively conceived shelving.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

More consumers mean more sales – and more sales means growth, expansion, jobs and prosperity for the business, its workforce and the local economy in which it operates. Restrictions still require that her business – and others’ businesses – operate at a much smaller capacity. Social proof can also work in reverse.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In 2009, I began flying private and quickly came to realize that the private jet industry was very archaic. We are the only private jet company that operates by way of innovative app technology (i.e., PYMNTS: What’s the story behind how JetSmarter started? SP: My background is in tech startups.

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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. Is the SMB network that Dorsey spoke of in 2009 now coming full circle? Big ideas often start by solving a seemingly small problem.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

In January 2009, the so-called “Genesis Block” came into existence to the delight of an extremely small but very passionate cadre of cyber currency enthusiasts. 50 Percent of CFOs Expect the Blockchain Will Change How Accounts Payable Operates in the Next Year. But trust — and infrastructure — take time to build.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 2, 2018

However, Facebook and Amazon are not the only Big Tech companies with a need to innovate in data security. Using CB Insights’ patent analytics, we mined FAMGA’s patent application activity for data security innovations. Patents are a meaningful leading indicator of where company R&D and innovation efforts are headed.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

Then, I contact the IT staff to discuss operational or development needs that require assistance. PYMNTS: Speaking specifically of the payments and commerce space, what in your opinion is the most impactful innovation in that realm in the last five years? PYMNTS: What does a day in the life of a Chief Architect Officer look like?

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