CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Aided by technology – and emboldened by the rise of cryptocurrencies – fraudsters are stepping up ransomware campaigns. The threat actors realized they can amplify their impact by targeting specific companies such as managed service providers,” said Bennett. Payment terms have been higher, too.

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APRIL 12, 2019

It was a good day for Jumia Technologies on Friday (April 12) — and that’s a good signal about the future prospects of eCommerce in Africa, home to some 1.3 Founded in 2012, Jumia became the first African unicorn startup in 2016 after a $326 million funding round that included Goldman Sachs, AXA and MTN. billion, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies alerted Google to the cyberattack on Aug. Online reviews company Yelp is saying Google broke its promise to stop using content from third-party websites without their permission. 7, and the apps were removed from the store. Yelp Raises Alarm. Google agreed in Dec.

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JUNE 5, 2017

Starting at the company in 2012 as Macy’s VP of engineering, Anwar founded MacysLabs. Mike Robinson also rose through the ranks at Macy’s and was just named the executive VP of product management and customer experience. Macy’s CEO, Jeff Gennette, commented on these two new strategic hires.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

A $5 million funding round led by Steadfast Capital and other existing backers will help Sourcery strengthen the technology behind its invoicing and B2B payments capabilities, the company announced. The funding will also be used to develop an accounts receivable solution for vendors receiving payment via the Sourcery platform.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Honey began in 2012 as a way for consumers to easily locate savings while shopping online. Online platforms have to ensure that product listings on their sites are properly verified, as the fallout from failing to do so even once can have devastating impacts. House Committee Passes Bill to End Federal Marijuana Prohibition.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Existing investors in the company include CMIG Leasing, China Minsheng Investment Group, Tiger Global Management and CLSA. It was founded in 2012 and said that it handles $500 million in loans every month for 4 million borrowers in retail. Dianrong is headquartered in Shanghai and it’s a privately held company.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 6, 2017

Ellison-Taylor, chairman of the AICPA , recently noted that technology tops her list of the most important trends shaping 2017 because it will drive so many of the profession’s opportunities and challenges in the year ahead. But how are accountants supposed to keep up with all of the technological trends ?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

According to Financial Times , Parakilas monitored privacy and policy compliance of software developers for Facebook for 18 months before he left in October of 2012. At Apple, he will work with the privacy team as a product manager, people familiar with the matter told Financial Times.

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JUNE 3, 2020

Curing payment pains associated with complicated medical billing gets to the heart of how payments technology is moving medical money in smarter, faster ways. Paper checks may become a thing of the past if healthcare’s trend toward modernization continues,” according to the new report.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

million in a Series A funding round to further develop its in-store display technology. More resources will enable us to continue serving the growing needs of our current customer base, who want to expand their use of eyeQ technologies,” said CEO Michael Garel. Shopper intelligence platform eyeQ announced that it has secured $3.5

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

But there’s another reason why the neo-challengers are so front-of-mind: They’re industry leaders in cultivating technology innovation and optimising customer service and experience. They also deliver innovative, easy-to-use apps that help users with things like managing their daily budget or travelling abroad. What the future holds.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Consumers have been banking online for 28 years. The first, online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. 7,270 $4,100 4 Revolut 3004 2015 London 11,460,000 $1,700 5 Chime 2727 2012 SF 10,710,000 2.6 2 $520 12 Acorns 613 2012 LA 2,170,000 2.3

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JUNE 1, 2020

Losing customers can be as easy as experiencing one too many online glitches, however, which can drive clients into the competition’s arms. The challenger bank has run on a cloud banking model since its 2012 launch and is available for business and consumer use in 30 European markets, including Austria, Germany and the Netherlands.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2016

One of the biggest stories of the holiday season was the hit that legacy department stores took when warm winter weather and continued consumer moves toward online retailers disrupted everything from revenue streams to inventory management. The strength of a company’s brand equity can have direct business and financial outcomes.”.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

The “Facebook-Google duopoly” has crashed funding for advertising technology start-ups to five-year lows, according to reports emerging this morning. The slowdown also became more pronounced as the year went on; Q4 saw only 69 adtech deals, the lowest it has been since 2012. billion in 2013, and only $2.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

A company called Buy It Installed , which launched in 2012, is ready to help the less skilled consumer with the task. The company allows online and offline consumers to purchase products with installation included, and then uses connecting technology to facilitate the assembly with an installation service provider.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Coinbase last reported a valuation of more than $8 billion as of October 2018, when it raised $300 million in a Series E round led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Wellington Management, Andreessen Horowitz and other firms. “We Rival online pet supply firm Chewy staged a successful IPO last year.

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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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OCTOBER 22, 2020

The launch, he noted, allows PayPal merchants to offer installment payments to their shoppers without any new or different technological integration. Afterpay is in a unique position to extend and deepen the relationship with our customers and help them to manage their money more seamlessly through savings and budgeting tools.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

In fact, pre-crisis, Simon had invested $1 billion per year since 2012 on recasting its top malls as destinations, building office space and hotels into the mix as anchor tenants. With online shopping gaining even more popularity with the pandemic, we can expect it to take even more business from malls.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

According to research from the Fed , the number of paper checks being used dropped by more than 50 percent between 2000 and 2012, as the use of new payment methods, like cards and mobile wallets, more than tripled. But what if you could pay your rent with modern technology and earn perks and rewards in the process?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Private technology companies in Latin America have raised over $5.8B in funding since 2012. in deals since 2012 — nearly seven times as much as either Mexico or Argentina. Brazilian companies represented eight of the 10 largest rounds in Latin America since 2012. GIC, Tiger Global Management, ICONIQ Capital.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Private technology companies in Latin America have raised over $5.8B in funding since 2012. Since 2012, investments into the region have nearly tripled. in deals since 2012 — nearly seven times as much as either Mexico or Argentina. Brazil took up eight of the 10 largest rounds in Latin America since 2012.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. E-Bay acquired online ticket exchange, StubHub, in 2007. Speaking of online retailers, eBay went all out to court them.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2016

By engaging in some heart-pounding retail archaeology, the adventurous “raiders” find pieces of archaic technology, electronic accessories or obsolete video games and consoles still inexplicably carried by Walmart and often discounted (or not) to laughably impossible degrees. Still, the label indicates that the $99.99

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Nevertheless, the traditional auto commerce sector is still making a strong showing: online car shopping platform CarGurus made a strong IPO to the tune of $1.23B earlier this month, and activity in the sector at large is on pace for a record year. online car rental services. dealership software companies. vehicle auction services.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

In 2012, for example, Amazon attempted to break into the luxury fashion market, but it didn’t quite take off. Consumers still tended to view Amazon as a place to shop for discounts online, not high-end goods, and luxury brands were reluctant to dilute their brand image and list on the site. Big Play of the Week: The Grocery Bot.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Visner of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) — managed by nonprofit MITRE , in support of the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence — said it’s important to put the cyberthreats, and Iran’s willingness to deploy them, in context. “As In a match-up with the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

That’s where companies like MindBody Online come in. Since its founding in 2001, MindBody has found success with its original business model, growing by more than 300 percent from 2012 to 2015 and landing on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list five times since 2012. The state of apps to come.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

In an ecosystem in which success is defined by scale and time to market, it’s no longer good enough to have a great product, a well-known brand or a compelling technology. In a 2012 interview, then-CEO Ken Powell reported that one in four trips to the grocery store included the purchase of at least one of its products. Distribution.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Panowicz, who worked for fellow Finovate alum mBank as Senior Director and Managing Director from the fall of 2011 to the spring of 2015, will be responsible for Kreditech’s product and technology departments. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Kreditech demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2014.

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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In the US, small business customers get bounced around like Goldilocks—they are too small to be of interest to commercial relationship managers and too complex to be easily understood by retail branch staff. Online small business lending by direct credit providers has especially taken off. of all firms.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Next, Euronovate launched its Biometric Fusion Technologies: “Our customers can rely on digital services that significantly provide increasing value by progressively enhancing the quality of identities throughout the customer relationship. Metrics: Raised ~$1M USD from start up in February 2012, revenues from 0 to 6.2M

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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. Companies like Fount and Liqid are digital asset managers with robo-advising capabilities. get the full 45-page disrupting investment banking report.

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