Chris Skinner

MARCH 9, 2017

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

As such, automakers are hitting the venture capital highway in droves. 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. DCM Ventures and Coatue Management also participated in the deal. Ridesharing. Self-Driving Taxis.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

India-based SME lender Capital Float has added a bit of funding to its books thanks to a $2.3 According to Capital Float cofounder Sashank Rishyasringa, the deal brings the total raised for Capital Float in 2016–2017 to $9.2 The company has secured significant venture capital, too. million through this route.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

Alternative small business (SMB) lending platform CAN Capital announced on Wednesday (Jan. CAN Capital added Siciliano from commercial financing company Marlin Business Services , where he served in a variety of roles, including CEO and chief operating officer. 9) that Edward J. The challenges are not isolated to the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Citi has been appointed by Victory Capital to provide fund administration, custody, ETF services and securities lending for its most recent acquisition. This new business further grows Citi’s existing relationship with Victory Capital. With more than $21.7 With more than $21.7 Asia and Latin America.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Citi has been appointed by Victory Capital to provide fund administration, custody, ETF services and securities lending for its most recent acquisition. This new business further grows Citi’s existing relationship with Victory Capital. With more than $21.7 With more than $21.7 Asia and Latin America.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

Happay , a business expense management company based in India, has landed a partnership with HDFC Bank , reports in Business Standard said on Monday (March 5). The company will link HDFC small business (SMB) customers to its travel and expense management solution, which is tied to a prepaid card.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Analysts continue to flesh out their predictions for payments and FinTech in 2017, but one can never truly know the exact direction an industry will take. Executives from Payoneer, NCR, FTV Capital and Ingo Money touch upon all of these trends as they tell PYMNTS their own visions for B2B payments next year.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Adam Carson, managing director, global technology strategy & partnerships at JPMorgan Chase & Co., will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation 2017. Bank Innovation 2017, March 6-7 in San Jose, Calif., will feature dozens of speakers on investing in innovation, chatbots, blockchain and more.

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Accenture

APRIL 21, 2017

European banks are in the midst of a ‘perfect storm’ of negative interest rates, regulatory pressures and market disruption, and are in search of new sources of value. Strategic growth objectives for transaction banks can be enabled using virtual cash management, allowing increased client acquisition.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

company calls itself a “rebate management solution” with the goal of helping manufacturers and retailers handle rebates. Enable was started in 2015 by Denys Shortt and Andrew Butt, but didn’t officially launch until 2017. The company’s platform helps with tracking and managing rebates, as well as optimizing them.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

As PayPal reaches saturation points in Western markets, it wants to continue to expand internationally, especially in India, where the country’s 450 million mobile users make it an attractive target for retailers. India is a big market. And even those firms have to compete with the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook’s WhatsApp.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Expense management technology is now a saturated market, particularly for the small business space – which is notoriously difficult to serve, because they are too small for large, enterprise-grade solutions, but too large for consumer-specialized tools.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

The Geru bonds, which the company issued in December of 2017, have a four-year maturity and pay about 11.2 The company is also reportedly in talks with international investors about raising $50 million via an equity round that QMS Capital is handling. percent each year, noted the report. QMS has a 10 percent stake in Geru.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

The bond, which is due August 2020, is the first bond created, allocated, transferred and managed through its life-cycle using distributed ledger (blockchain) technology. It’s managed by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia ( CBA ), RBC Capital Markets ( RBC ) and TD Securities ( TD ).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

That compares with 2017 percentages, respectively, of 27 percent and 20 percent. In reference to the latter business, in the third quarter of 2018 Square Capital facilitated over 62,000 business loans totaling $405 million, up 34 percent year over year, revealed the company.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Eventbrite, the company that operates a platform to create, manage and sell tickets to events, filed an amended registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in which it said it is aiming to raise a $200 million initial public offering (IPO). At the midpoint, Eventbrite would have a market capitalization of $1.55

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

IAC will change its name to Shift as the transaction proceeds and the Shift management team of CEO and Co-Founder George Arison and Co-CEO Toby Russell will stay in place. “We Arison said the move was about adding capital to scale the company. Securing that capital is even more complicated than the IAC merger.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

B2B startups saw a little bit of everything this week when it came to venture capital. And that goes for the industries covered, too, with treasury management’s Kyriba, blockchain’s BlockApps and enterprise security’s Druva landing on the board, to name a few. Expense Management. Blockchain.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Fiserv CEO Jeff Yabuki has joined the speaker faculty of Bank Innovation 2017, taking place March 6-7 in San Jose. Yabuki joined Fiserv in 2005. Under his leadership, the company has grown revenue to exceed $5 billion annually, and serves more than 13,000 institutional clients. Fiserv also supports this site’s Read More.

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Bobsguide

MAY 25, 2022

London — May 16, 2022 — Mindtree , a global technology services and digital transformation company, and Finastra , a leading financial technology provider, today announced a partnership to bring Finastra’s Fusion Payments To Go payments technology to banks in the Nordics, the UK and Ireland, as a managed service.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is among the backers of a new $111 million European early-stage venture capital fund, according to CNBC. 30) by London-based venture capital firm Firstminute Capital , CNBC reported. The new fund's main investor is RIT Capital Partners.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Paya , the latest FinTech to the join the ranks of publicly-traded companies, made its market debut Monday (Oct. on the Nasdaq Stock Market shortly before Wall Street's 4 p.m. Private equity firm GTCR orchestrated the transaction, having bought Paya in 2017 from Sage PLC, a global accounting software firm.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 6, 2022

Banks usually find resounding success as providers of capital and cash management services if the event and approach are right. Within several years you can decipher the quality events that not only generate inexpensive leads but generate loans, deposits, and cash management fees. Tracking Event Lead Generation Success.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Endless CRM and data management projects that shook our foundations and gutted our PMOs. Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. Payments chaos.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

He added that instant funds can help SMBs better manage cash flow . Square now manages $100 billion in annual payments and has an $83 billion market capitalization, the article said. bank by assets, created QuickAccept with the assistance of the bank’s 2017 team from its WePay acquisition, Neukirchen said. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

Bitcoin’s share of the total cryptocurrency market is close to falling below 50 percent for the first time in over seven months. percent of the market’s total capitalization, falling to a low of 50.54 Before 2017, bitcoin held more than 70 percent of the market — but that was before new cryptos came on the scene.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

In his eight years at the startup, he helped grow market capitalization to 11 billion euros from 2010 to 2017. billion, backed by Tencent and Allianz as well as by members of Zalando’s management. . Former Adidas AG executive Diana Styles was recently tapped to fill the role of chief people officer.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

based digital bank looks to fuel additional expansion in its home market while eyeing an initial public offering (IPO) down the line. The startup followed that up in 2017 with the launch of its first mobile personal bank account and app, and the first digital business account in 2018.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 10, 2017

Avin Arumugam, senior vice president of the Internet of Things at Visa, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2017, which takes place March 6-7 in San Jose. Arumugam was at JPMorgan Chase for four years prior to his starting at Visa in May 2016. Recent video footage also Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Plus, Medius collaborates on invoice management, TravelPerk acquires NexTravel, and Sweep lands funding for T&E tools. During his career at Citi, Khaliq has served in management positions in banking, markets and securities services, country management (CCO) and treasury services. 13) announcement. 13) announcement.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Cash management firm The Brink’s Company is acquiring a majority stake in the security services company G4S for $860 million (£660 million), The Brink’s Company announced on Wednesday (Feb. and several smaller markets. This is the firm’s fourteenth acquisition since March 2017. The remaining will take place prior to Dec.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Insurance purchasing and management platform Huckleberry has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Tribe Capital, with participation from Amaranthine, Crosslink Capital and Uncork Capital, Huckleberry announced in a press release on Wednesday (Dec. Every business needs insurance.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Payment platform Payoneer is launching its Capital Advance service, the company announced on Monday (Feb. Designed as a solution to support cash flow management for online commerce companies, Capital Advance provides access to working capital financing for businesses selling online.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

What is the state of banking innovation today? Each year, we poll the industry to find out. Fintech funding has grown tougher for startups, but banks’ balance sheets are looking stronger– what does it mean for innovation?

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BankUnderground

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Emerging markets (EMs) have become more exposed to the global financial cycle in recent years. In a recent paper , we propose the use of money market rates to measure transmission of global funding shocks to EMs. Money markets have been shown to play an important role in transmission of global funding conditions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

During his career at Citi, Khaliq has served in management positions in banking, markets and securities services, country management (CCO) and treasury services. Before taking that role, Khaliq had served as global head of Direct Custody & Clearing inside of Markets and Securities Services since 2017.

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