PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Caesars Entertainment announced that it has reached an agreement to offer DraftKings , the leading sports-tech entertainment brand in the country, providing market access for its online gaming products. The access is exclusive to Caesars locations across select states where the company operates casino properties. and Australia. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Founded by Amanda Zuckerman and her mom Karen in 2012, Dormify offers college students and post-grads tools, resources and products to create their first home away from home. The company was able to amass its loyal customer base through email marketing. Dormify announced a $3.45

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2018

And brands have helped to fuel that strong growth. More than entertainment, brands have been an important trend to move the needle for the industry so far this year,” The NPD Group Global Toys Industry Analyst Frédérique Tutt said in a press release. Amid toys in the collectibles market, L.O.L.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Managing cash flow can be tricky work when one is new to the market or looking to expand because cash is in short supply. CircleUp entered the market in 2012 as a data driven variation on venture capital (VC) funding to solve for part of that problem in retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms. The first is focus.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers? Profitability.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

The venture capital world lit up last week with reports that B2B tech startups are now seeing increased funding, raising money at a faster pace than B2C startups. In the biggest B2B venture capital story of the week, some of the brightest names in banking lent their support to B2B digital payments firm Transactis. B2B ePayments.

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Long Lasting Ideas

MARCH 1, 2016

The title alone may beg the question: What in the world does employee happiness have to do with marketing a bank?’. It’s a niche lender, marketing to steady, hometown businesses –veterinarians, funeral homes, locally-owned pharmacies and dentists. And there’s little things that make a difference in communicating the bank’s brand.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

It’s a huge market, presumably one marked by hundreds of millions of consumers who like to eat and would like the convenience of meal delivery. Yet the continued capital investments (regardless of the firm in the delivery space) shows that even with commitment of time and money, brand loyalty is no given. Why leave China?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Thriving or just surviving in the omnichannel age means offering comprehensive in-store and online features that both engage customers and connect them with brands. That’s how we built a lot of our services, and really our brand, online.”. We want to drive customers to come back to us and interact with our brand,” Song said.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For those unfamiliar, mBank is a Polish direct bank brand established by BRE Bank in 2000 as one of the first of its kind in the country. Thanks to the mBank’s business achievements and potential of the brand as first and the biggest internet bank in Poland, BRE Bank Group decided in 2013 to change company name to mBank.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Shortly after 9/11, Time magazine declared the age of irony officially over, but by 2006, NPR was pretty sure it was alive and well in the United States – and by 2012, The New York Times said it was still firmly with us, but probably bad for us. million) plus,” the website said in a statement. Banksy’s real point?

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The pandemic has also accelerated recent trends in banking, especially among the millennial demographic, which tends to favor digital banking and online brands over traditional banks. Tech companies are chipping away at the traditional bank’s market share. get the full 45-page disrupting investment banking report. Investment banking.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Since its founding in 2012, the firm has specifically distinguished itself in a crowded field of tech-based underwriters, with its focus on the consumer group it calls the “underbanked middle class.”. Avant’s consumer-facing product is devised as a digital alternative to that market. This is the bank’s product backed up by our brand.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2019

May 2012) – “Invest in large networks of engaged users, differentiated through user experience, and defensible through network effects ” Thesis 2.0 (Dec Apr 2018) – “USV backs trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

But one California company has taken a slightly different approach to marketing their products at the popular grocer — they’re stocking kiosks, not shelves. Urban Remedy has 30 branded refrigerated kiosks in Whole Foods stores across California. Venture Capital Investment. The Future.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Market Roger Karner told Karen Webster for this week’s edition of the Monday Conversation, the lights turn themselves off. Karner noted that Signify has been into IoT and connected products since its early days: 2012, two years before Amazon Alexa’s release. That’s because, in the connected future, as Signify ’s CEO of the U.S.

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BankUnderground

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Here we measure firm size primarily using a firm’s product market share, i.e. the sales of a given firm as a proportion of total sales in its industry. But we observe the same patterns when using stock market capitalisation or the number of employees as proxies of firm size. Figure 1: UK listed firm stock prices during 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

But outside of the government, the financial services market has, in many ways, been working to play its own part in helping small businesses gain access to funding. “It will transform the business funding market and is a real step [toward] change for small businesses.”

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 29, 2016

I recently mentioned to a community bank management team that community financial institutions are slower to close branches because their decision making goes beyond the spreadsheet and market potential. So they worry about other things that go beyond the fact that their branch in that market has little chance of being profitable.

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BankUnderground

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I find that persistent debt booms led financially constrained firms to cut back on investment, across both capital expenditures and intangible assets. I show in the paper ( Albuquerque (2021) ) that financially constrained firms also cut back on intangible assets (investment in employees, brand, and knowledge capital).

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

It appears GV, which is the venture-capital investment arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has a vested interest in promoting a payday lender. Because it is an investor in the online lender LendUp and has been before the company launched in 2012. Now, however, Google has found itself in a bit of an awkward position.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

The news follows big next-day delivery announcements from both Walmart and Amazon — in a week where both retailers had a lot of news about repositioning themselves in the market and reporting some pretty major changes. Big Debate Of The Week: Did Amazon’s Estimated Online Market Share Just Drop? market share. Badly,” he wrote.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

While India-based Blume Ventures takes the lead for most active venture capital investor in the country, corporate and CVC deals to the tech sector have risen every year since 2012. We used CB Insights data to dive deep into the activity of the top ten most active corporate investors into the country from 2012 to 9/19/17.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 31, 2017

I read a recent interview of Members 1st Credit Union CEO Bob Marquette by S&P Global Market Intelligence (link requires subscription). In Brett King's 2012 book, Branch Today, Gone Tomorrow , he called for a 50% reduction in branches while asking what would banking look like in 2015. But perhaps it would've been nine in 2012.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2015

A well-executed ATM strategy that includes investing in high-quality ATM technology can deliver a host of benefits: improved customer service and experience, lower costs, increased brand awareness and growth in product sales opportunities, to name a few. This drives brand loyalty and promotes business growth.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2016

MCX is the merchant consortia formed in August 2012 with the intention of creating a mobile-only, merchant-owned payments scheme that ran over the ACH rails. Rumored calls for capital were rebuffed. Mooney said that they plan to lay off about 30 people but suggest that the MCX-owner members “remain committed” to its future.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2017

Regulation A+ has made a mostly quiet splash on the market. Years in the making, the regulation was born from the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in 2012, with Title IV of the act — also known as Regulation A+ — enabling average joes to invest in companies seeking capital.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Company Description: Founded in 2012, this Berlin-based company runs an online used car exchange via a family of sites such as Auto1.com, Select Investors: DST Global, DN Capital, SoftBank Group. Select Investors: Institutional Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic. Select Investors: Rhone Capital.

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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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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Date: March 21, 2012. Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, Date: 2012. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 5, 2018

Driven by Lore, Walmart acquired e-commerce platform Shoebuy in January 2017, followed by outdoor apparel retailer Moosejaw in February, womenswear site Modcloth in March, direct-to-consumer premium menswear brand Bonobos in June, and last-mile delivery startup Parcel in September. Crew’s Madewell brand. E-commerce.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. But it would be over the next four years that eBay would find itself increasingly pulled into a riptide of changing market dynamics. And eBay’s operating margins seem headed in the wrong direction, too: down from a high of 50 percent in 2012 to 38 percent in 2016 to 20.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

“Yelp remains one of our top SMID-cap ideas, as we believe the company has a significant opportunity ahead in the large and growing local ad market.” However, it goes to show that Yelp’s status in the market is fragile. Yelp is on track to net $1 billion in revenue this year and has a market capitalization of $3.7

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

2012 with the intention of creating a mobile-only, merchant-owned payments scheme that ran over ACH rails. MCX coalition members hoped that the scheme would be attractive enough to consumers that many of them would shift away from what they were using in the store — branded plastic cards — to its mobile payments scheme.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Unlike the US, where the smartphone market is divided between a small number of key players, in Asia there are many companies vying to become the dominant smartphone provider, from global giants to smaller local startups. Using CB Insights data, we mapped out the key emerging Asian smartphone brands challenging established players.

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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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