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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Gap Brand announced that its CEO Jeff Kirwan was leaving the company, just as the retailer gets ready to reveal its fourth-quarter results. While I am pleased with our progress in brand health and product quality, we have not achieved the operational excellence and accelerated profit growth that we know is possible at Gap brand,” Gap Inc.’s

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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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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. Sigma aims to streamline business operations. Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community.

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CB Insights

MARCH 7, 2018

Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers are struggling to compete against Amazon and e-commerce brands. In the past few years, retail bankruptcies have hit everyone from A&P to Toys “R” US. But amidst this overall decline in the brick-and-mortar store, one type of retailer is thriving. First Name.

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BankUnderground

JULY 20, 2022

These are unlikely to work in the same fashion as rate cuts in positive territory, because of difficulties with charging negative interest rates on retail deposits, and because of banks’ negative return on excess liquidity. Over the past decade, several central banks have cut policy rates below zero. Four key results.

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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. billion in 2017, though operating losses widened during that time. An F-1 registration statement revealed the bank’s plans for an IPO in the U.S.,

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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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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

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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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

JUNE 21, 2019

In the latest edition of the PYMNTS weekender, coverage includes the latest about PayPal and Google’s views about bank charters, a deep, analytical dive into Facebook’s new payments idea, a look at the new rise of pet retail and other stories you might have missed or simply want to review. Why Pets Are Pulling Retail Innovation’s Leash.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 16, 2015

After Nashville, it’s been back-to-back trips to Las Vegas for the Amazon Web Services re:Invent developers conference followed by the Bankers Administration Institute’s Retail Delivery Conference. For a long time, BAI-RDC has been the premiere conference for retail banking. What’s The Hurry? .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It was only about two months ago — August, in fact — when the prediction came out: Amazon , the eCommerce operator that had recently made moves into healthcare, deepened its power in grocery and continued to grow in other parts of retail (and cloud computing), would hit $2.25 trillion in market capitalization by 2024.

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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. One of the biggest challenges these companies face is that many operate without a bank charter or license. why profitability won’t come easy.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Florida’s ShipMonk, started in 2014, offers eCommerce fulfillment services and technology solutions. The ShipMonk funding is part of a surge in cash going to such B2B companies as GoSite , which targets small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) that are moving operations online.

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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. It’s also made the offering of subscription services a robust channel for a business to operate in. Technology, of course, changed all that.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

The company, founded in 2014 by a pair of childhood friends, works like this: People can make a mold of their own teeth at home with equipment sent to them in the mail, or they can get their teeth scanned at one of 300 “Smile Shop” retail locations. That caused the company’s shares to drop 12.9

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

A report this week said that an online used-car platform in that country called BeliMobilGue has raised $10 million in fresh capital in a Series A funding to help expand its offerings. percent year-over-year in 2019, and sink below 17 million for the first time since 2014. Take Online auto retailer Vroom. Inspection Stations.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In 2014, Celent recognized mBank’s digital platform redesign and in 2015, Celent recognized mBank’s Bancassurance initiative. Through 2014, mBank has grown to more than 4.7 Rather than copying other financial institutions, mBank sought to deliver a best-in-class digital experience inspired from the world’s best retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

The announcement comes as, since 2014, more than 163 million women have launched businesses across the globe, at a rate that outpaces that of businesses launched by men. 30 kickoff in Atlanta will include access to experts from Visa and entrepreneurs operating both nationally and globally. To that end, Visa said on Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

When it comes to retail, general commerce and online payments, the increasingly powerful middle class in India will probably get major credit in future textbooks for shaping the global digital economy. Look no further than an India-based hotel operation called Oyo for further evidence of that. Retail Influences. Winning Formula.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

In a sign that small business lending may be well on its way to moving beyond the traditional conduits of big banks and other larger financial players, online platform Lendio, which helps smaller companies find access to capital, reported heady growth for 2015. The typical industries best represented span retail, restaurants and construction.

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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

MAY 3, 2019

The possible IPO of the Vision Fund will take place after the vehicle is fully invested, and might result in a creation of a publicly-listed company similar to Berkshire Hathaway (and of course accessible to retail investors, now able to ostensibly act as venture capital investors) with a decidedly tech company focus.

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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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Jeff For Banks

JULY 5, 2022

They are/were the business owners, demanders of capital and loans, and significant depositors. Firstly, commercial banks are significantly funded with retail deposits. Both businesses, by industry types, and retail, by retail demographic types. Build a positive culture with operating discipline.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

Kroger is one of retail’s more anomalous figures insofar as it is massive – and yet somewhat invisible. Said simply, Kroger taken across the various retail operations it stands behind is much, much larger than most people are aware. It did over $100 billion in sales in 2014 and employs about 400,000 people.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2014, Starbucks stopped accepting Square’s mobile wallet, and shortly thereafter, Square pulled the plug entirely on that mobile wallet experiment. Launched in 2014 as the firm’s lending arm, Square Capital has extended over $1 billion in working capital to over 100,000 small merchants. He said launching in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

We seek to partner with capital-efficient businesses that are on rapid growth trajectories and look forward to working with Shipt and playing a role in the continued advancement of the company.”. 2014, thanks to an investment from “serial entrepreneur” Bill Smith, according to TechCrunch.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2017

While reports of a price hike at Costco are a bit overstated, the wholesale retailer plans to raise the cost of its annual membership by a whole $5. Costco is operating in an increasingly challenging retail environment. Alphabet follows existing investors Notion Capital Ltd, Sapphire Ventures LLC, Rakuten Inc and Anthemis Group.

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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? As Adam French explained, this is part of what makes Scalable Capital unique among robo-advisors. We followed up with a few questions by email.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2016

However, UPS has been able to capitalize on the increasing need for these types of deliveries, thanks, in large part, to investments the company has recently made in updating its infrastructure. domestic package operating profit of 7.6 Postal Service. For the quarter ending March 31, the company reported an increase in its U.S.

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Independent Banker

MAY 2, 2016

Retail locations: Eight. Thanks to the hard work of our employees and significant financial commitment from our directors and some key shareholders, we were able to preserve local control of our bank, restructure its capital and restore our company to sustained profitability. Community First Bank & Trust. Columbia, Tenn.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Suffice to say that the retailer is hoping shoppers will choose the mall with a mobile and wants to get ahead of the game. While many retailers plan to keep their doors firmly closed on Thanksgiving, Macy’s is opening them one hour earlier than last year, according to USA Today. Well, whether Macy’s decision to open its doors at 5 p.m.

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