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JULY 9, 2019

India’s response to Libra follows the words of analysts with the Jefferies Financial Group who say that Libra’s going to need the sort of significant growth that only a region like India can provide. Facebook users in India have doubled since 2015 to 310 million and are predicted to hit 440 million by the year 2023.

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MAY 5, 2016

An announcement on Wednesday (May 4) said SWIFT’s enterprise platform now has 29 new corporate members across the Asia-Pacific region. The company also noted that the number of new businesses joining the platform increased by 50 percent in the region during the second half of 2015, compared to the first half of the year.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. 13), the company has raised $400 million in funding round led by Generation Investment Management LLP and previous investor T. As The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Nov. Rowe Price Associates.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Banks operating in oil and gas intensive areas of the U.S. Using data from quarterly Call Reports going back to 2013, analysts compared the performance of “energy-sensitive banks” with that of similar banks that aren’t located in energy-dependent regions. Possible causes Why might that be the case?

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FICO

AUGUST 30, 2022

The SEIO-BBVA prize for best applied contribution in operations research goes to a team including FICO’s Selene Silvestri. Vice President, Product Management. Now a team of four researchers including FICO’s Selene Silvestri has been awarded the SEIO-BBVA prize for the best applied contribution in operations research.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

The space-sharing company, already famous and well-funded for the value it offers to modern, technologically proficient and often geographically separated workforces, keeps making inroads in payments and commerce — in fact, it is getting into software via the just announced acquisition of Teem , which sells office management technology.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

have had to tap into personal funds or emergency financing options to keep business operation running amid late payments. This comes against a backdrop where 91 percent of SMB owners said that having certainty on payments is essential to business operation. billion ($3.214 billion USD) to the U.K.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

We needed to make sure that our [operations] team was able to handle that with ease.”. West said Chipotle observed increased demand for delivery in various regions across the U.S. when it first began partnering with delivery providers in 2015. . Enhancing Delivery Experiences.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

Researchers found that alternative lenders provided more than $36 billion in 2015 for both SME and consumer financing — a major leap from the $11.4 As platform operators streamline their core financial instruments on offer and refine the processes used to facilitate finance (i.e., billion recorded in 2014.

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MAY 11, 2016

The brand has always managed to have at least one of its three stores doing well. The April picture alone shows improvement over last year — a 7-percent drop in same-store sales instead of 2015’s 12 percent decrease — but when one is victorious in how little has been lost, improvement is obviously still needed.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

The name “EMV” originally stood for Europay, Mastercard and Visa, the three credit card companies that developed the system, but the standard is now managed by the EMVCo consortium. Europe was the first region to adopt EMV technology, and sees a transaction rate of more than 99 percent. Recent findings have shown that 76.7

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JANUARY 18, 2017

One might imagine that mall operators nationwide take a rather jaundiced view of the internet, since online shopping has more or less killed the mall. Returned items are sent to a regional processing hub, then on to retailers’ fulfillment centers, third-party logistics companies or liquidators.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In today’s highly digitized and connected world, several lean and nimble organizations are making profound business impact challenging the traditional banking models in domains such as Payments, Lending and Wealth Management. This will help maximize the impact and value for both topline growth and bottom-line optimization.

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APRIL 13, 2016

While this might seem like just another extension of extant omnicommerce operations into a new space, Kian Gould, CEO at AOE, explained that there are some unique challenges posed by the highly regulated spaces of airports that make achieving the same kind of seamless shopping experience a different animal entirely. Because $37.6

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

billion in FinTech VC funding in the quarter, down 17 percent compared to the previous quarter — a stark decline from the $5 billion-plus quarterly investment values seen in quarters in 2015. Procurify offers a cloud- and mobile-based procurement and accounts payable solution to help companies analyze and manage spend. Cybersecurity.

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JUNE 5, 2017

Separately, but still germane to Europe, Global Trade Review reported that firms also have a “lack of common understanding” of just what lies behind the EU Funds Transfer Regulation 2015, which takes effect later this month. Those directives come from the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the China Securities Regulatory Commission.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 1, 2020

farms), nearly half of principal operators and spouses rely on a job off the farm to supplement low or negative farm income. That’s the most positive response since the survey began in 2015 and up 11 points from September. About half of those surveyed expect farms to shrink operations in the coming year. Looking Ahead.

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JULY 17, 2018

in October of 2015), the incidences of counterfeit card fraud at chip-enabled merchants have fallen sharply — some 76 percent, as reported by card networks. Law enforcement in Singapore and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region, Pak told Webster, encounters counterfeit cards in a variety of contexts. Speeding Up Discovery And Recovery.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

In 2017, there were 38 disclosed venture and seed rounds by automakers , up from 26 in 2016 — and astronomically higher than only six in 2015. The automaker is also reportedly joining the Open Platform operated by Lyft for autonomous cars. DCM Ventures and Coatue Management also participated in the deal. Ridesharing. What’s New.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In today’s highly digitized and connected world, several lean and nimble organizations are making profound business impact challenging the traditional banking models in domains such as Payments, Lending and Wealth Management. This will help maximize the impact and value for both topline growth and bottom-line optimization.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Alternative lending was the golden child among investors around 2015, but lately, the industry seems to have fallen out of favor thanks to regulatory uncertainty and questions over the viability of some business models. sent a letter to five alternative small business lenders operating in the country, inquiring about their business practices.

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JULY 1, 2016

Singapore’s GDP was roughly $407 billion in 2015. Between 2011 and 2015, the government allocated $16 billion to help accelerate Singapore’s research, innovation and enterprise landscape. The country’s ecosystem was ranked 10 th in the 2015 Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking, making it one of the top startup centers in the world.

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Celent Banking

MAY 31, 2016

The T24 overhaul appears to have already borne fruit, with the Swedish retail bank Nordea Bank signing up last September to implement T24 across its regional base of 10.8 million retail and 500,000 corporate customers in several Nordic countries. FIS's community banks had their own conference called InfoShare back in April.).

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MAY 4, 2017

In conversation with Cardtronics’ Brian Bailey, managing director for Global Financial Institutions, and Tom Pierce, chief marketing officer of the firm, Webster noted that even with the rallying cry of a war on cash in the digital economies — and in emerging markets — cash is alive, doing well and actually growing in terms of usage.

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MAY 11, 2016

Common sense isn’t so common when retail is still experiencing its fair share of upheavals from each new disruptor to make it to market, but the decade-plus of online and in-store retail operating side by side has established a few new ground rules that almost everyone can agree on. listed products at a nearly uniform 90 percent clip.

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Gonzobanker

APRIL 18, 2017

Commercial cash management/fee income (sixth in 2015, second for 2016 and 2017). Small business market share (fourth in 2015, third in 2016, and now eighth in 2017). More importantly, the small business segment is ripe to support the second growth priority – commercial cash management/fee income. And six places later ….

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Southeast Asia has an assortment of extremely wealthy families that have dominated its investing landscape for years — and a few are taking particular interest in the region’s growing tech scene. The regions wealthiest families and individuals are competing for deals alongside venture capital firms, Chinese tech investors, and others.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

itself is already considered to be the global capital of FinTech, establishing unprecedented growth by bringing in the second highest amount of FinTech funding in 2015. The creation of new hubs for innovative companies, SMEs and startups has also helped to foster an emerging FinTech cluster in the region.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In today’s highly digitized and connected world, several lean and nimble organizations are making profound business impact challenging the traditional banking models in domains such as Payments, Lending and Wealth Management. This will help maximize the impact and value for both topline growth and bottom-line optimization.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

By using funds managed by LCA to benefit its parent company, LCA and Laplanche failed to do so.”. We have full confidence in our new management team and we are a better company today.”. He didn’t leave alone – most of LendingClub’s founding senior management team resigned or exited along with him. “I

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

While this is not universal, in countries like the Ivory Coast and Ghana, there are growing cooperatives and family farms where over 90,000 children and adults, who have been directly sold to a grower, work in a large, industrial-scale, cocoa-growing operation. We hit 1 million euro ($1.1 million) revenue in the first year.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

And New England isn’t the only place enjoying the autumn chill as it sets in — although we are perhaps enjoying it more colorfully with the region’s famed foliage. That is up from just 7 percent in 2015 — a 270 percent increase. In payments and commerce this week, a fall chill also rolled through.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Rise of the Analytics Organization in a Dog-Eat-Dog World – Brush off your resumes Gonzoanalysts, at our client roundtables we heard about analytics organizations being formed and analysts and managers being hired to head them. But, nobody had this on the 2015 list until … Apple announced Apple Pay. Bring out your dead!

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DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In today’s highly digitized and connected world, several lean and nimble organizations are making profound business impact challenging the traditional banking models in domains such as Payments, Lending and Wealth Management. This will help maximize the impact and value for both topline growth and bottom-line optimization.

Fintech 70

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Last August, for example, it became the first financial institution in its region to take part in the Eighth of August Parade, a festival celebrating the emancipation of enslaved people in Paducah, Ky. “[We] and Inclusion: The Millennial Influence,” Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion, 2015. Quick Stat.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Mike Butler of Radius, although a lifelong banker, came from outside of the region and implemented a business model and cultural change at his bank with new management and a "fast fail" innovation culture. Meaning that when a branch manager, or a teller, makes a judgment decision, they do so in the context of your bank's culture.

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