PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Domio , a startup that designs and rents apartment hotels, has raised $100 million in funding to expand both nationally and globally to 25 markets by 2020, according to reports on Tuesday (Dec. The company’s Series B round was led by GGV Capital. The funding round closed in late summer.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

billion 2016 acquisition by Cisco of Jasper Technologies to expand its Internet of Things (IoT) effort. “We The National League of Cities estimated in June that 65 percent of U.S. cities are being forced to “delay or completely cancel” capital expenditures and infrastructure projects.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

venture capital sphere this week: VC funding for FinTech startups in Q1 alone hit $1.2 Analysts said the industry has seen its highest venture capital activity since Q1 of 2016, fueled by focus on late-stage investment rounds. This week’s B2B venture capital roundup is quite indicative of these trends.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2020

million in a Seed funding round for its neo-bank epiFi, led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital, TechCrunch reported on Sunday (Jan. Also participating in the funding rounds were David Velez, Kunal Shah and VC fund Hillhouse Capital. Two co-founders of Google Pay in India have raised $13.2

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Luckily, research from Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Capital One and others often point to one thing: Despite the challenges, small businesses are optimistic. Bank of America also found in a fall 2017 survey that nearly three-quarters of SMBs expect their 2017 year-end revenues to beat 2016’s figures. Eighty-one percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

“The merchant cash industry first started as a product for unbankable clients,” said Andrew Mallinger, COO of PIRS Capital, in a recent interview with PYMNTS. “It There are scenarios, too, in which a merchant cash advance may actually be the best financial option for a business in need of working capital.

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MAY 27, 2022

There is good reason for this shift in view; according to Marc Bernegger, co-founder of crypto fund AltAlpha Digital, “after last year’s explosion of crypto hedge funds around the globe, there are now over 400 active funds, excluding those focused on venture capital.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

Alternative finance apparently won’t stop catching the attention of investors — at least, not any time soon, if this week’s B2B venture capital roundup is any sign. Drip Capital. TradeIX integrates blockchain technology and a decentralized API platform to integrate into existing trade platforms.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

The talks with Deutsche Bank fell apart after six weeks, with both banks saying that there were risks to doing a deal and also restructuring costs and capital demands were big concerns. “It A combination of the two German banks via a merger has been cropping up since 2016, before either of the two banks were forced to restructure.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

The latest round was led by Temasek with participation from Rockwell Automation, Aster Capital, Next47, Envision Ventures and Tekfen Ventures. The investment comes as Claroty, which came out of stealth mode in late 2016, had a strong year marked by 300 percent year-over-year growth in bookings and customers.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

While many banks are utilizing technology and trying to be innovative, they are doing so on an existing legacy structure that is too expensive, painful and ingrained in their culture to change.”. from 2016 until its sale in 2018. His career has focused on aligning technology and banking services. Keith Costello, Locality Bank.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

By leveraging this POSA technology, WeChat Pay customer account billing can be applied at the point of sale. With this partnership, InComm’s POSA technology will enable Chinese visitors in Japan to use their smartphone to pay for products and services.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The overall pace, seen globally, has been up quite a bit, as measured against the 134 patents worldwide seen in 2016. The concept and execution of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) has been one that President Xi Jinping stated can be part of “reshaping the global economic structure.”.

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Bobsguide

JULY 28, 2022

As of June 2022, over 1,600 companies listed on the Prime Market of the TSE participate in the Platform, representing 87% of the companies in that market or 98% by market capitalization. After almost 18 years, the Platform has become a key part of the infrastructure of Japan’s capital markets. ” Digitizing and Streamlining.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2019

A robust supply of private capital reportedly is one of the main reasons for that, along with corporate cultures that are averse to public markets. But relatively high stock prices and access to more capital remain prime temptations, and there is little doubt that 2019 will bring more than few exciting — and telling — IPOs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Dotted along the dots to connect in the Mueller report lie several mentions of bitcoin, and how the virtual currency was used by Russian individuals and groups to try to impact the 2016 election. The outcome, of course, is not news. The Unit and the Cryptos.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

1) said micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) lending will help fuel growth in the global peer-to-peer lending space between 2016 and 2020. “These lead to a belief that technology may create more such products in the future,” added Technavio in its announcement. ”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Orders are speeded up at the front-end of many eateries through the use of digital kiosks, tabletop tablets and mobile phones, but there has been little displacement of workers at the back-end of food service as a result of new technology, according to Reuters. Jobs in the leisure industry will increase by 0.6

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The largest funding round was a blast from the past: a whopping $75 million landing at a company in India in an industry that saw most of its attention from venture capitalists last year — and which has been noticeably lacking in 2016. 10), the firm revealed nearly $11 million raised in venture capital. Alternative Lending.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2017

percent increase marked in February 2016. New data from Capital One found that half of SMEs surveyed said they are optimistic about current business conditions, up 9 percent from a year ago. percent) coming from a mobile device as of September 2016. percent) coming from a mobile device as of September 2016. After the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

” Womply raised $30 million in 2016 from Sageview Capital as it prepared to ramp up product development. At the time, Capoccia said the company’s mission is to “use technology and data to grow, protect and simplify small business.” Optimistic businesses are 3.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2016

That goes for both businesses and government entities, according to eInvoicing firm Billentis in its 2016 E-Invoicing: Digitization & Automation report, released Monday (June 6). That includes disruptive technologies. It’s a national-scale effort, Billentis argued, that also makes sense on the company-scale.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

The publication noted blockchain’s “talismanic effect in today’s stock market” and investors’ heightened appetite to “capitalize on the popularity of currencies like bitcoin and Ethereum” as other reasons to take Kodak’s latest venture with a bit of healthy skepticism. Broader Doubts Emerge. Clearing the Air. million this week.

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APRIL 18, 2016

billion into Fidelity Commercial Bank to strengthen the Bank’s core capital, and support its local and regional growth strategy. National Bank was expected to have a rights issues in 1Q2016, and the government expected to raise Kshs 4.99 billion from a the issue in February 2016. What other bank rights issues are there?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Deloitte has been an early embracer of blockchain technology, and 2016 was a busy year for the consulting firm in the space. firm that uses distributed ledger technology for payments and settlement. This diversity may be a testament to the versatility of the technology,” Managing Director David Schatsky said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

More than half of companies surveyed by SWIFT and Dow Jones Risk & Compliance last year said they plan to invest in RegTech in the coming years, and most agree that technology has enabled a greater ability to remain compliant with key regulations surrounding anti-money laundering , Know Your Customer and more. In the U.S., In the U.K.,

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. I also filtered for anomalies such as recent merger announcements as a seller, turnaround situations (losses suffered from 2016 forward), mutual-to-stock conversions, stock dividends/splits without price adjustments, and penny stocks. Live Oak Bancshares, Inc.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

It’s hardly a surprise: SME optimism has dominated headlines, with analysts linking the trend to President Donald Trump’s administration and plans to strengthen the national economy and focus on small business growth. Small Business Administration Head Linda McMahon, who spoke to the United Nations last week urging U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

-educated entrepreneurs met while working abroad at Renaissance Capital and Deutsche Bank. By 2015, the firm was profitable, and in 2016, it officially relocated it headquarters to Barcelona, Spain, one of three nations outside Russia ID Finance has expanded its efforts into — Belarus and Brazil being the other two.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

With nearly $50 million in venture capital funding for B2B startups this week, the field didn’t fare too bad. With $3 million in new venture capital, Australia-based Airwallex is helping businesses pay and issue cross-border invoices in the currency of their choice. Check out our breakdown of all the deals below.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

s Technology ‘Hotbed’ Picks Up Steam. We began the Weekly Tech Center Roundup journey in London – Europe’s self-proclaimed startup capital. In 2014 alone, British technology companies received over $795 million in investments from U.S. Tel Aviv Fuels Israel’s ‘Startup Nation’ Reputation.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He has also served on ICBA’s executive committee for many years, including a term as treasurer from 2016 to 2018. So, he joined a training program at what was then Citizens & Southern National Bank, once the largest bank in the southeastern U.S., for eight years. now part of Bank of America, before moving to Griffin, Ga.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

The report called on Congress to establish a national commission to conduct a comprehensive review of existing financial laws and regulations, and establish a pilot program to test the efficacy of coordinated bank examination teams. It is critical that we respond to the needs and concerns of Main Street America,” said Snowe in a statement.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

It’s even more surprising given that 2016 could be the year that regulation begins to really kick in for these lenders — in the U.S., million in B2B venture capital was divided among alt-finance, supplier payments and Big Data services startups this past week. Find out how the more than $26.5 Alternative Lending. MarketInvoice.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

The research is favorable for companies trading across borders, too, as technology gears up to increase access to trade finance and, as a result, propels business growth. Asia Pacific’s alternative finance market has more than doubled between 2015 and 2016, now worth $245.2 But how are SMBs faring on a global scale?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This could mean receiving funds onto payroll cards or mobile apps, as both technologies free them from having to cash checks or wait for money to appear in their bank accounts. . Cash flow and working capital is much harder for small businesses,” said Reany. Access and Choices. ADP surveyed 500 U.S.

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CB Insights

APRIL 7, 2018

.” To imagine a world where robots do all the physical work, one simply needs to look at the most ambitious and technology-laden factories of today. For example, the Dongguan City, China-based phone part maker Changying Precision Technology Company has created an unmanned factory. So, what does the future of factories hold?

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