Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 19, 2013

Looking Back at 2012 Every year, I usually write about the past year with mixed feelings, at times nostalgic for those events and at times, glad that the year is over. 2012 brought us highs, lows, and surprises. more “promises,” and a constant flow of new money into the markets. per gallon price level rather than the $4.00

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

This latest round of funding brings Cybereason’s total amount raised to approximately $400 million, with previous investors including CRV, Spark Capital and Lockheed Martin, according to a press release. Founded in 2012, Cybereason boasts distribution in all major global markets.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

SoftBank also said in July that it was leading a $231 million funding round for the Brazilian lending startup Creditas in a bid to shake up competition in the traditional financial market. Creditas had a recent valuation of $750 million and said the capital would help it to expand to other Latin American countries. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2017

SoftBank is helping out Boston-based digital security firm Cybereason with a big $100 million investment. Cybereason turns machine learning and behavioral analytics loose to process data and flag security issues in real time. The new funds will go to hiring, product development and expanding into new markets.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

Japanese company SoftBank is leading a $231 million funding round for a Brazilian lending startup called Creditas, in a bid to shake up competition in the traditional financial market, according to a report by Reuters. . Creditas is now valued at $750 million and the capital will help it to expand to other Latin American countries. .

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2017

Founded in 2012, the Phoenix-based company sells cars through its website and operates automated towers that store cars in U.S. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. William Blair & Company, LLC, BMO Capital Markets Corp.

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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 deal is subject to passage of applicable laws, and both parties need to secure applicable gaming licenses. and Australia. .

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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. Enterprise Security.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

in the alternative SME lending space, while B2B startups from the Netherlands and Spain also secured impressive rounds. Find out where the rest of the $19 million in venture capital landed this week and which two U.S. Kikka Capital. Kabbage’s sister firm Down Under secured $1.5 companies came out on top.

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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

MAY 29, 2018

Whenever it happens, it’s safe to say that a $150 billion valuation would make Ant’s IPO one of the biggest ever, putting it ahead of Facebook ’s $104 billion IPO in 2012 and behind Alibaba’s $168 billion IPO in 2014. Venture capital was provided by Sequoia Capital , a firm which normally invests in early-stage startups.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in which Sears Chief Executive Eddie Lampert’s hedge fund, ESL Investments , invested in supplier insurance broker contracts totaling $93.3 million in 2012. The department store stopped providing this type of coverage in March, when it made that warning.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. Live Oak Bancshares, Inc.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 1, 2017

This teardown features annotations & commentary by four Social Capital partners. Thanks to the Social Capital team for updating/confirming their portfolio data on the CB Insights Editor. Social Capital is a VC fund with a focus on healthcare and education. CB Insights Note. Investment syndicates. BEST OF DISRUPTION REPORT.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

million in Series A funding from investors Rumford, HW Capital and Speedinvest. PYMNTS caught up with CEO Christian Deger to find out what keeps Payworks “pulsing” away in the global payments market of gateway providers. Payworks was founded in 2012 by Deger, David Bellem, Johannes Lechner and Simon Eumes.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2016

KredX also secured investment — to the tune of $750,000 — for its invoice financing solution. Platform Black has been in the industry for a while since launching in 2012. has seen growth in its invoice financing industry, with a new player entering the market earlier this year. based Platform Black. the company said.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Cash usage will see a clear reduction across Europe—as an example, ATM cash withdrawals in the UK, which peaked at 2.9bn withdrawals in 2012, will fall from 2.7bn withdrawals in 2016 to somewhere between 2 – 2.5bn withdrawals in 2017. Use of Apple Pay, Samsung Pay etc.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Cash usage will see a clear reduction across Europe—as an example, ATM cash withdrawals in the UK, which peaked at 2.9bn withdrawals in 2012, will fall from 2.7bn withdrawals in 2016 to somewhere between 2 – 2.5bn withdrawals in 2017. Use of Apple Pay, Samsung Pay etc.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 14, 2022

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. First Capital, Inc.

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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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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 29, 2014

It is annual report season, meaning publicly traded financial institutions are finalizing their 2013 numbers and submitting their 10k''s to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We believe we can effectively compete as a community bank in our market area and the niche markets we serve. Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Apple is on the cusp of a stock market first — becoming the first public company in history to capture a $2 trillion valuation. trillion market capitalization — almost double where it was just two years ago. And its market cap will hit $2 trillion if the stock rises about another 5 percent to $467.77

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Last year, the EMV liability shift for payment terminals saw merchants become responsible for card present fraud conducted on their premises, and this is giving retailers the push they need to adopt tougher security protections. But what about the impact of EMV in other areas, such as the ATM. The effect on skimming rate.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

San Francisco-based Plaid was founded in 2012 with the vision of making the world a better place for FinTech firms by providing easy infrastructure to connect FinTech innovators with their clients’ bank accounts. Goldman is leading the round, and our major existing investors, including NEA and Spark Capital, also participated.

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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). Main results.

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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. A Better Option For Banks.

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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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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In a round led by Flint Capital, digital identity verification technology specialist Socure has raised $13 million in funding. Featuring participation from ff Venture Capital, Santander InnoVentures, and Two Sigma Ventures, this week’s investment takes Socure’s total financing to more than $17 million.

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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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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 19, 2012

First of all, if they continue to buy securities, they are removing many of the high quality securities from the marketplace, possibly causing a disruption or shortage in the markets. We may be skeptical, but the markets keep telling us: Don’t fight the Fed! trillion of securities amassed during QE1 and QE2.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 7, 2019

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. First Capital, Inc.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The same group completed fewer than 25 investments in aggregate between 2012 and 2014. Here are a few takeaways from analyzing the graph below, which encompasses over 125 deals: Of the 12 P&C insurers analyzed, Ping An and AXA have been the most active since 2012. Number of investments (since 2012): 2. Allianz Ventures.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Firms started in the dorm room that have no employees, just an eager volunteer, no revenue, and no capital need not apply. So FinTech (six) firms need capital and revenues to grab a foothold in the financial services market. Analysts are predicting the robo advising market will grow to $489 billion by 2020.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 26, 2012

capital appreciation and dividends. This has led to a mind blowing net interest margin of 6.01% for the quarter ended September 30, 2012. To be fair, Access National is headquartered in Reston, VA, one of the best banking markets in the country. Focused mission, young management team, great markets. Well done! #3.

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BankUnderground

JULY 20, 2021

The authors show that through this channel, borrowing secured on assets can amplify the initial effects of temporary negative shocks. Similarly, Almeida et al (2012) find that companies with debt maturing at the nadir of the financial crisis cut investment significantly more than those with debt maturing after 2008. Conclusion.

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

The same group completed 20 investments in aggregate between 2012 and 2014. Here are a few takeaways from analyzing the graph below, which encompasses over 125 deals: Of the 12 P&C insurers analyzed, Ping An, AmFam, and USAA have been the most active since 2012. Number of investments (since 2012): 3. in funding.

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