PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

There are people in the world who want greater access to Amazon’s huge product selection but paying for those purchases has been a real obstacle for many customers,” said Hikmet Ersek, president and CEO of Western Union said, when the news was announced. To date, cash is a 49 percent share of the average user’s wallet.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

Their 2017 survey contains data points that all point to one conclusion: Companies are forced to reshape their payment strategies thanks to a combination of factors, including the rising threat of payments fraud, increased globalization and high payment volumes. PYMNTS dives into the report to examine the biggest data points.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

And the resulting increase in sales can be impressive: During the first 11 days of the new mPOS initiative, Lilly Pulitzer ’s In the Pink stores reported a 24.5 The global wireless POS terminals market is expected to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13 percent from 2017 to 2023. billion at the conclusion of 2017.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

First Data’s New Friends. First Data CEO, Frank Bisignano, noted in the wake of First Data’s earnings release this week that the company remains on track to meet its guidance for 2017 and that he is “confident that the current weakness is transitory.”. So what happened? Welcome to the U.S., Chinese consumers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

Volvo’s International Student Program allows parents to lease a new vehicle from the company by making a one-time payment to a local dealership. In fact, it’s common to see international students walk into dealerships carrying large sums of cash – between $50,000 and $70,000 in their local currencies – to buy a vehicle.

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BankUnderground

JULY 31, 2020

New thresholds can create complexity and cliff-edge effects that can discourage healthy firms from growing. We identify regulatory thresholds for UK banks and building societies using textual analysis on a new dataset that contains the universe of prudential rules. additional data or modelling costs) or balance sheet costs (e.g.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

According to new data from CCS Insight, the global wearables market will double in the next four years, hitting a value of $27 billion and 233 million units in sales. The pilot will run through the end of the year, with the data being reviewed in the early part of 2019. Risky Loans: Echoes of the financial crisis looming?

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

European unicorns, or private companies valued at $1B+, make up about 11% of the total number of unicorns around the world. free download: Get all the data on 260 unicorns . Using CB Insights data, we identified all the Europe-based startups that have reached unicorn status. Global Switch. Valuation: $11.1B. Valuation: $3.5B.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Success is now defined by the ability to reach a critical mass of users – consumers or businesses – efficiently and effectively … where time is an important currency, as is the ability to influence and/or control that end user experience. For brands like General Mills, that’s a good news/bad news story.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

GAFA’s search data, smart home devices, advertising and marketing capabilities, and more offer compelling use cases for the beauty industry. Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Google’s search data helps brands understand beauty shopper preferences. get the free 39-page beauty tech report.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In 2017, Andreessen Horowitz general partner Alex Rampell said that of all the tech giants that could make a major move in financial services: “Amazon is the most formidable. We will be updating this brief on an ongoing basis as more relevant data, investments, news, and products are released. Amazon’s Next Financial Pillar.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. Now, the iPhone X, released November 2017, is a full inch taller than its original iPhone predecessor. The iPhone and iPod. It was the first example of a smart mobile phone. original iPhone. “No

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. Way back before most enterprise software solutions were cloud-based, Salesforce was offering a new and different kind of CRM product. Currencies have legal support. The iPhone and iPod.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at FinovateFall 2017. Check back for new updates throughout the day. Digital banking is the new core.” Now showing a web platform and speaking about ICOs and investing related to digital currency. I believe it, but it’s still bad news. MalauzaiMonkeys. Stash Invest.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2018

But beyond that, the numbers show mixed results as the company strives to move past an epic data breach. Cybersecurity costs (tied of course to new initiatives and to the widely-reported data breach of 2017) were up 33 percent year on year to $116.5 Delving into the data by segment, USIS was $308.3 CEO Mark W.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

DECEMBER 23, 2016

We all still processing the data coming in from India’s radical experiment with money, and I still think that is way too soon to pass any judgement at all on whether the experiment has been worthwhile or successful, but it is interesting to see some of the immediate effects of the government’s policy of de-monetisation. For example, fish.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Its creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, gave it all of the qualities of cash, but in a digital format: peer-to-peer transfer of a currency in the absence of any intermediary that is pretty much anonymous — only wallet IDs are shared. Holding computers and data for ransom became a new and growing use case for bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Facebook ‘s stock price plunged Wednesday (July 25) after the social media operator’s Q2 financial report showed missed targets on revenue and users, and the ongoing costs of the privacy and data scandals to hit the company gained clarity. Facebook also had an 11 percent year-over-year growth in daily active users to a 1.47

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

We shopped those 657 sites again in January and now have 36,000 data points that support this conclusion. And probably even more in 2017 as those shoppers just never come back to try again. Its new partnerships with telcos provide distribution for PayPal to hundreds of millions of those telco subscribers. percent to 53.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

New options grants increase the number of shares of a company, diluting the existing pool of shareholders and reducing the value of shareholders’ current holdings. Reflecting on the financial crisis, its consequences, and his profits from it, he wrote in 2017 , “Though markets are generally rational, they occasionally do crazy things.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

As fintech plays a larger role in the financial ecosystem, companies are looking for ways to use tech to solve problems and find new opportunities in the space. Fidelity’s in-house Center for Applied Technology focuses using advanced technologies to create new solutions ranging from incremental upgrades to large, disruptive ideas.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The R.I.P. Report – Startup Death Trends And Data. Note: We last updated this post in November 2017. In July 2017, device maker Jawbone became one of the most spectacular failures in the history of startups. via New York Magazine. Some of the fail-related research we’ve issued includes: The Downround Tracker.

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CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

For traditional retail giants, this means entering the playing field with the likes of e-commerce behemoths Amazon and Alibaba, both of which are leveraging big data and powerful AI algorithms to transform the retail space. Using CB Insights data, we dug into the changing retail landscape. Supply chain & logistics. Conclusion.

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