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JULY 14, 2016

That ease of use in paying for transportation has piqued the interest of other cities around the world that could soon begin using London’s technology under a new deal. The funds from the new deal will be used to invest in new transportation infrastructure and to freeze fares, said Khan.

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JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. After testing the solution out at Yelp, we joined YCombinator to launch the company in 2014 and bring this solution to experts in every field. PYMNTS: Can you explain the business?

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

Michael’s SPAC intends to buy a technology company, where Michael will serve as chairman and CEO, IPO Edge reported. Michael served as chief business officer at the San Francisco-based ridesharing giant where he led the merger of Uber with Didi Chuxing Technology , a Beijing ridesharing company, according to the report.

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JANUARY 12, 2020

Wells Fargo is striving to revamp its approach to technology to ensure systems stay online, satisfy regulators and block cybercriminals, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Saturday (Jan. We need to be a technology company,” Charles Scharf, CEO, said in his first meeting with employees after taking the job in October, the WSJ said. .

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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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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

An idea hatched at the Burning Man desert arts festival, the experience-focused hospitality group Habitas was founded in 2014 by Oliver Ripley, Kfir Levy and Eduardo Castillo. . The startup uses 3D printing technology to build its hotels in Mexico, where Ripley says 100 rooms per month can be built. “We

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MARCH 25, 2020

Wine Insiders , in one case, has combined edgy technology and innovations, and supplemented traditional marketing channels with digital advertising. 2014: The year that DRINKS , which was Wine Insiders’ chief competitor, acquired the company. All this, Today in Data. 400M: Amount of revenue Wine Insiders has brought in to date.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It’s a bid to boost the Cupertino, California-based technology giant’s hardware sales and services business, PYMNTS reported. consumers and found while 81 percent of adult Americans owned smartphones, just 6 percent used Apple Pay at a physical store five years after the service debuted in 2014.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Apple will adhere to Russia’s demands that the technology conglomerate change the way the Crimean peninsula is displayed on Apple’s Weather and Maps apps, according to BBC reports. Russian annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Apple previously labeled Crimea as an undefined territory.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While technological advancements have revolutionized many aspects of operations, payroll and expense management are not [among] them. This approach can be compelling for employers that need to quickly solve problems to grow their workforces and operations worldwide.”. based organizations, 41.2 percent four years later.

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MAY 4, 2020

First-quarter annual revenue was $8 billion, with an operating margin topping 40 percent. went public in 2014. The investment was also the largest investment for a minority stake by a technology company anywhere in the world and the largest foreign direct investment (FDI) in the technology sector in India.

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JUNE 4, 2020

CNBC reported that the initiative aims to use real-time supply-chain analytics to deliver items more efficiently, in part using Microsoft’s Azure technology to pinpoint and resolve friction in logistics, pivoting to new routes if necessary. By keeping freight and parcel delivery operations in house, the company can lower costs.

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JUNE 10, 2020

The former Chief Operational Risk Officer was fined for insufficient action on AML program deficiencies and staffing issues. FinCEN encourages technological innovations to help fight money laundering, but technology must be used properly,” the regulator said in a news release announcing the fine against LaFontaine.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

is looking to buy NSO Group, an Israeli company that sells military-grade technology, for around $1 billion. At the time, an NSO spokesman said that NSO doesn’t operate its systems and requires customers to use them lawfully “for the prevention and investigation of crimes.”. Francisco Partners acquired NSO for $110 million in 2014.

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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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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Among the several initiatives being developed, IIN uses digital technology to accelerate international money transfers. Japanese banks have been asked to bolster efforts to thwart money laundering since the Financial Action Task Force found deficiencies in 2014.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Apple will adhere to Russia’s demands that the technology conglomerate change the way the Crimean peninsula is displayed on Apple’s Weather and Maps apps, according to BBC reports. Russian annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Apple previously labeled Crimea as an undefined territory.

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JUNE 12, 2018

In its starkest definition, the efficiency ratio is operating expenses divided by revenues. A lower ratio means the bank is operating with better cost control. Dean Athanasia, co-head of the firm’s consumer and business banking operations, said at a conference that the efficiency ratio would stay below 50 percent.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Mastercard is expanding its Accelerate financial technology (FinTech) portfolio and is adding 11 companies to its Start Path startup engagement program, according to a Wednesday (Aug. 12) announcement. The company said its efforts recognize “the important role FinTechs play in the world’s rapid digital transformation.”.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Chinese technology company Tencent has announced it’s going to start researching cryptocurrency and its implications for an ongoing project in blockchain, according to reports. In 2014, Sina lost its license after facing charges of allowing lewd video content to be posted.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

PICKUP Enterprise operates the end-to-end customer experience and includes access to its Good Guy network, which specializes in both the delivery and assembly of big and heavy goods. . The grocery delivery space is busier and more competitive than ever, due to technological advances and the pandemic keeping people home. billion.

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MAY 1, 2017

IBM’s blockchain technology has landed at yet another financial institution, this time in Japan for the purpose of facilitating trade finance transactions. According to Mizuho, the technology can enable greater efficiency in supply chain management and trading operations.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

It has recently come to light via a chain of email correspondences that Amazon has been testing its drone technology in U.K. Amazon has been in contact with the CAA since 2014 and has been testing drones in U.K. the CAA granted Amazon special permissions to test its drone delivery technology in U.K. airspace since summer 2015.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

The letter accuses Theranos, founder Elizabeth Holmes and a former executive of deception by claiming that “proprietary technologies that worked” had been developed and were close to regulatory approval. Holmes can no longer work in labs until the appeal is settled, and testing operations were shut down in Arizona. Theranos, a U.S.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

The pizza chain has transformed itself from a spot for late-night food requests from dorm-room residents — to a leader in mobile and digital technologies, and a blazer of its own path in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) world. First, a few broad points — data that helps define the context in which Domino’s is operating and innovating.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Swedish peer-to-peer (P2P) lending upstart Lendify has reportedly secured $115 million of funding, while international trade platform Contour has teamed with information technology (IT) solutions firm Mphasis. Swedish Startup Lendify Closes $115M Funding Deal.

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APRIL 7, 2017

The company, acquired by Bankrate in 2014, rolled out its FI-facing app […]. But while major FIs have the resources and tools in place for helping customers manage and monitor credit, smaller players often lack that crucial infrastructure. In comes Wallaby Financial.

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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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JUNE 10, 2019

The company was founded in 2014, and grew in Alibaba’s backyard – the city of Hangzhou. PingPong and Luxembourg’s relationship goes back to 2017, when the FinTech startup got a payments license in the region, which allowed it to operate between Chinese outfits and customers in Europe.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Europe’s Monese , which touts itself as a mobile-first, multi-lingual, transnational provider of consumer and business banking services that operates in 31 countries using 14 languages, is adopting Thought Machine ’s cloud banking platform, the companies announced on Monday (Oct. The platform is called Vault. “At

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JULY 19, 2019

BMW has been expanding into China and developing autonomous technology for cars, so that it can be at the forefront of the technology when the self-driving wave hits the mainstream. The company has been working with Baidu, China’s largest search engine company, since 2014.

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Abrigo

JUNE 2, 2017

As data becomes a more integral part of analysis in today’s technologically savvy world, it becomes clear technology’s influence on client acquisition will only become progressively more important. outlined the responses from 188 accounting professionals in a 2014 survey. Former CPA wasn’t using state-of-the-art technology 4.2

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FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Online lenders have been disrupting the lending ecosystem by combining innovation with advanced financial technology to improve borrower experience, address underserved markets, and reduce operating costs. In 2014, the US. William Wagner, CMO/Vice President of Marketing, Cloud Lending Solutions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

Amazon continues to grow its operational footprint across the globe. operations. Working on everything from machine learning and drone technology to streaming video technology and Amazon Web Services.” At the end of last year, it came to light that Amazon had been testing its drone technology in U.K.

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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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MAY 24, 2019

Chief Financial Officer Vasant Prabhu will take on the vice chairman role for the global payments technology company. Prabhu served as chief financial officer at NBCUniversal Media, LLC prior to arriving at Visa, where he oversaw the company’s finance function in addition to its division for operations and technical services.

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