PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

It is appearing more and more likely that liquidation will be the final fate of Aéropostale after a bankruptcy judge ruled last week that private equity firm Sycamore Partners could use the $150 million it is owed by the bankrupt teen retailer as a bid at its bankruptcy auction. Today, Aéro is all about price.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2018

In a press release , Equifax said Begor came to Equifax from Warburg Pincus, where he was a managing director and focused on operational improvement across the portfolio of companies that fall in Warburg Pincus’ Industrial and Business Services unit.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

technology investor Coatue Management, Afterpay announced in a press release on Wednesday (Nov. In connection with the investment, the two firms will form a strategic partnership “where Coatue will leverage its data science expertise to support Afterpay in its development of retail data analytics and future data-driven products.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

The bank offers corporate banking, retail banking, treasury management, capital markets, credit cards and wealth management services in a range of consumer and corporate offerings. That’s a significant drop from 2014, when businesses raised a combined $93 billion, though 2017 stats are an improvement from 2016 levels.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

The company, anticipating this, said it will use the new capital to grow its “merchant footprint in Europe and North America.” In 2014, the company was worth $400 million. The platform also offers discounted shipping rates and built-in inventory management with multi-channel automation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2018

In a press release , Equifax said Begor will start on April 16 and is coming to Equifax from Warburg Pincus, where he was a managing director and focused on operational improvement across the portfolio of companies that fall in Warburg Pincus’ Industrial and Business Services unit.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

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. Stripe Connect and billing services help companies manage marketplaces, subscriptions. Stripe Billing optimizes subscription and invoice management.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The two companies have been heavily intertwined since 2014, when Instacart was only two years old. hedge fund Tiger Global Management and existing investors Coatue Management and Valiant Capital. We want to make grocery shopping effortless by helping our customers get the groceries they need from the retailers they love.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

Sequoia Capital led the round, with participation from Tiger Global Management, Spark Capital and existing investors Forerunner Ventures, Thrive Capital, IVP and Index Ventures. Glossier announced that it has raised $100 million in Series D funding that it will use to expand the beauty company. ”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2017

Shipt has raised $40 million in venture capital on top of last year’s funding as initial investors doubled down on their contributions. With the new funding, it plans to explode into 60 new cities, breaking out of the southeastern and Midwestern box where it’s been operating since its inception in November 2014.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Florida’s ShipMonk, started in 2014, offers eCommerce fulfillment services and technology solutions. Summit Partners Managing Director Christopher Dean and Vice President Chelsea Jurman will join ShipMonk’s board. Fulfillment and inventory management technology has quickly become a critical component to ensure seamless delivery.".

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2016

22) it closed a round of venture capital funding. The Series A round of funding, which netted the startup $29 million, was led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) and also included New Enterprise Associates, Soros Fund Management, Haystack Partners, Quadrant Capital Advisors and Blue Delta Capital.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. This year in the US, JP Morgan launched mobile banking app Finn and Goldman Sachs’ retail banking arm Marcus crossed 1.5M savings accounts. Key takeaways.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

A number of major retail studies have shown that millennial consumers value the sustainability of brands and products when making purchases. million dollar Series A venture funding led by FirstMark Capital with additional participation from Contour Ventures, Humanity United and Serious Change LP, among others.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

He wrote in an email regarding the coming changes: “With the recent tightening of the capital markets, we are refocusing on our core consumer loans business.”. billion, but losses grew too — and much more quickly — from $3 million in 2014 to $26 million last year. The staff cuts will also include some management players.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

In 2013, those investments hit $232 million, and in 2014, they hit $80 million, according to reports. Other players in the market, including Avenue Capital Group and Euler Hermes Group, have also exited the space, causing an increase in the cost of these insurance contracts. billion from $4.7 billion a year ago. “We

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. 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.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

Management pointed toward continued reinvestment in the company as a factor in the earnings guidance. Management said on the call that API offerings have been instrumental in spurring that continued torque in large seller installed base. Management noted that Square Capital generated 78,000 loans in the quarter, totaling $528 million.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

Rent-A-Center ‘s decision to sell itself to Vintage Capital comes amid a continuing expansion of so-called “alt lending” options for consumers, which could make it more difficult for the chain to reinvent itself as it becomes a private company under its new ownership. Vintage also owns rent-to-own operation Buddy’s Home Furnishings.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 18, 2016

What does the world need with another robo-advisor, the founders of Scalable Capital , a Munich-based automated investment platform, asked from the Finovate stage in London earlier this year? Give average investors the same level of risk management as wealthier investors and watch the investment returns for individual investors improve.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Going forward, ABEJA and Google will collaborate on AI and ML solutions across various sectors, including retail and manufacturing, driving the application of AI solutions, along with further growth in the Japanese AI sector,” the company said in a statement. The deal is a strategic one, according to ABEJA.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

In many businesses, acquiring customers used to be a function of where the business was located — a high traffic intersection for a convenience store or a well-heeled mall for a clothing retailer. By one measure , subscription company websites have seen visitor growth of over 800 percent since 2014.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Even food products that cost several times more than Urban Remedy’s typical fare have made the cut — like caviar, for example, according to PYMNTS Unattended Retail tracker. Venture Capital Investment. Previous funding rounds in 2014 and 2012 have brought the company $5 million and $1 million respectively, according to Crunchbase.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

That doesn’t fly in today’s fast-moving and competitive retail world, and smart executive teams know it — which may be why so many of them have been switching out or adding new members of late. At JCPenney, he was tasked with turning things around for the struggling retailer. Specialty pet retailer PetSmart has brought on J.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Launched in 2012 by Payal Kadakia under the name Classtivity, ClassPass closed $2 million in seed funding in March 2014 after rebranding. The new funding also adds two additional board members: Marc Magliacano, managing partner at L Catterton and Daniel O’Keefe, managing partner at Apax Digital.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Whatever the reason, the luxury apartment has become the new McMansion of the millennial rental market, but as more of the same high-rise, glass-paneled, open-floor-planned buildings dot city skylines, property managers are finding themselves pressed to identify ways that differentiate their luxury apartments from the herd.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

In recent months, several tech startups have raised capital at the same or lower valuations than previous rounds, posing risks to their ability to recruit and retain top talent. To date, Snapchat marks one of the most significant divergences of opinion between the valuation committee and the investment manager at the same mutual fund.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Top VC investor: Ribbit Capital is the most active investor in this year’s Fintech 250 companies. across 22 rounds since 2014. Asset Management. Capital Markets. Retail Investing & Secondary Markets. Global representation: 46% of the 2020 Fintech 250 are based outside the US. Accounting & Finance.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Other investors include Hyde Park Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Hyde Park Angels and Y Combinator. ShipBob was started in 2014 by two engineers, Divey Gulati and Dhruv Saxena. The raise comes on the heels of a $17.5 million in a Series B round in 2017 and $4 million in Series A the year before, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2017

It’s not a bad metaphor for the state of retail right now. The zombies — the walking dead — are those who just don’t know yet the state of their misfortune and take solace from the fact that 90 percent of retail sales still happen in physical stores, so they’re still very much alive. Back in 2014, T.J. Making Room For Growth.

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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. in 2014 and projects expansion to $35B by 2020. After all, in the United States small businesses comprise 99.7%

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 5, 2022

My Remarks to Bank Client's Annual Meeting of Shareholders "I want to thank [Chairman] and the Board, [CEO] and the management team for asking me to come out and remark on where I think the banking industry is going over the next five years. They are/were the business owners, demanders of capital and loans, and significant depositors.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Since 2014, Seacoast has been on a buying spree acquiring 14 banks. Goes to Tom Brown and the Second Curve Capital team for the inspiring message from Clemson CEO Jim Clements. merges with Lakeland Bancorp.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Much of the coverage was about the hit to Q2 profits from the additional investments in logistics, warehousing and inventory management required to cut the current default shipping option in half. Ordering ahead and managing pickup (or delivery) gives the consumer a way to create both predictability and assurance – on their terms.

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