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JANUARY 10, 2020

has announced a takeover that will position the company to strengthen its financing operations in the middle market. 10) said that Aflac Global Investments has reached an agreement to acquire a minority stake in Varagon Capital Partners, a direct lender to mid-market companies. A report in Zacks Equity Research on Friday (Jan.

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Bobsguide

OCTOBER 18, 2017

In one of the most eagerly received announcements of Sibos 2017 so far, today Broadridge Financial Solutions revealed the successful completion of an operational test case which demonstrates the capabilities of blockchain technology to enhance the operational efficiency and auditability of bilateral.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

percent in 2017. Conversely, American Express and Mastercard ’s commercial card market dropped. percent in 2017. Visa ’s commercial card was 43.2 percent in 2018, up from 42.5 American Express dropped to 29.4 percent from 29.8 Mastercard declined to 27.4 Commercial card spending accounted for 24.8 percent at Visa.

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Connecting more than 8,000 decision makers and thought leaders across the industry, Sibos 2017 in Toronto was once again the platform where the global financial community explored the disruptions and opportunities in payments driven by innovation, technology and new business models. Market infrastructure renewal.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Cardtronics, the world’s largest ATM owner/operator, reported solid growth for Q4 2017 and for the full year in general. million in the prior year, driven by the DCPayments and Spark acquisitions completed in January 2017. Operating revenues hit $346.2 Operating revenues hit $346.2 million from $309.8

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JANUARY 26, 2021

MobileCoin complements the privacy-focused app in that it is “more resistant to surveillance,” according to a 2017 Wired report. In other news, European FinTech SIA is partnering with WizKey to create a platform to allow credit negotiations on blockchain for banks, financial operators and funds, according to a press release.

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Bobsguide

AUGUST 7, 2022

London, UK – August 3, 2022 – Finastra announced today that The Co-operative Bank has selected Finastra Kondor in the cloud, available via Microsoft Azure, to upgrade its treasury infrastructure and automate manual reporting and processes.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Rather than providing what he described as a horoscope for 2017, Le Moal instead shared his perspective on some of the biggest trends observed in 2016 and how they will shape the developing payments landscape now that 2017 is here. But to operate at scale, businesses need scale. Prediction #1: Disruption.

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MARCH 24, 2017

But this could all start to see some change in the latter half of 2017 indicates a recent report from Moody’s Investor Service. Last year, Moody’s found that grocery stores’ operating profits declined about 5 percent due to a 1.3 food retail market. percent decline in food prices. We expect the U.S.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

Lime is striving to reach profitability in 2020 and is laying off about 14 percent of its workforce — roughly 100 people — and ceasing operations in 12 markets, according to reports on Thursday (Jan. These market closures have an effect not just on riders, but on our whole Lime community.

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APRIL 25, 2018

2, as Microsoft has rallied to be neck and neck with Amazon in terms of market capitalization. The two Washington state-based companies are within one percentage point of each other, with a market cap of about $723 billion, thanks to a week-long rally in Microsoft shares coupled with a slump in Amazon shares, reported 24/7 Wall St.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Procure-to-pay company Zycus is stepping into the middle market. The company announced Thursday it is launching a source-to-pay program for mid-market companies and small, high-growth firms looking to improve their procurement functions. The program is called Zycus Genesys.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

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

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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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It was only about two months ago — August, in fact — when the prediction came out: Amazon , the eCommerce operator that had recently made moves into healthcare, deepened its power in grocery and continued to grow in other parts of retail (and cloud computing), would hit $2.25 trillion in market capitalization by 2024. percent in 2017.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

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. One word can summarize this action-packed banking year, GonzoBankers – tiring. Payments chaos.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Corporate foreign exchange brokerage GPS Capital Markets is reportedly up for sale, unnamed sources told PE Hub. GPS Capital Markets, founded by Al Manbeian and Ryan Gibbon, posts between $20 million and $30 million earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), one source told the publication.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

The global mobile wallet market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 35.5 percent from 2017 to 2021, according to research firm Research and Markets. Research and Markets’ assessment of the mobile wallet market meshes with what Technavio , the research firm, found about the mobile wallet market.

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MAY 14, 2018

The Geru bonds, which the company issued in December of 2017, have a four-year maturity and pay about 11.2 Morgan Stanley’s move comes at a time when the Brazil FinTech market is exploding. percent each year, noted the report.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

As global smartwatch shipments grew by 37 percent year-over-year in the second quarter, Apple has maintained dominance in the category with a 41 percent market share. The Apple Watch has been driving the wearables market: The company saw sales jump 60 percent in 2017, with 16 million units shipped.

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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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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

EXCLUSIVE—Investors don’t need to wait for Initial Coin Offerings to reach their full potential: this way of raising capital is already redefining how businesses in certain markets can operate, Taynaah Reis, CEO for cooperative banking system company Moeda told Bank Innovation.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

He worked in Walmart China as a chief merchandising and marketing officer. He became the Sam’s Club president and CEO in 2017. Furner worked his way up through the retail giant, starting as an hourly associate in 1993, working part time in the garden center of a supercenter. There’s no better place than Walmart U.S.

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Accenture

MARCH 20, 2017

Accenture recently examined rapidly changing consumer expectations in banking in our 2017 Global Distribution & Marketing Consumer Study , which gathered the views of more than 33,000 customers across 18 markets. Instead, they’re behaving like knuckleball pitches that move fast, but in erratic and unpredictable directions.

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Accenture

MARCH 20, 2017

Accenture recently examined rapidly changing consumer expectations in banking in our 2017 Global Distribution & Marketing Consumer Study , which gathered the views of more than 33,000 customers across 18 markets. Instead, they’re behaving like knuckleball pitches that move fast, but in erratic and unpredictable directions.

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JULY 2, 2019

is Amazon’s next market for Business Prime after rolling out the service in the U.S., In 2017, Amazon Business launched Business Prime Shipping to offer Prime shipping options for business users in the U.S. That same year, Amazon hit the one million Amazon Business membership mark after launching its B2B operations in 2015.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

A new report has found that while Apple has fallen to third place in the wearable market for the second quarter of 2017, the total worldwide wearable band market grew 8 percent during the same period. According to Canalys Research , the market was led by Xiaomi , with shipments of 3.5

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APRIL 24, 2018

Lenovo Group is setting its sights on India as it tries to boost its market share in the wearables industry in the country. Lenovo started selling wearables in India in 2017. Peng told Reuters it has achieved between 6 percent and 7 percent market share of smart wearables since then.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In the long list of startup finalists competing at South by Southwest 2017 hides a brand new personal finance management app. Hip Money – a new app by Hip Pocket – adapts the millennial habit of “swiping” to help them save and pay down debt through a mobile app. Nebraska-based software Read More.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

The four-year-old startup, which just raised $10 million in Series A funding, develops non-meat equivalents of pork rinds, bacon seasoning and other piggy products for the direct-to-consumer (D2C) and retail markets. Bringing the (Plant-Based) Piggies to Market . billion market cap. 8) at $118.10.

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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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OCTOBER 27, 2017

India has overtaken the United States to become the world’s second largest smartphone market. According to news from a report by Canalys , smartphone shipments in India grew 23 percent year over year in Q3 2017 to reach just over 40 million units, making the country the world’s second largest smartphone market after China.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 20, 2022

(TUI) and TransUnion, LLC (TULLC)), and a former TUI executive alleging that the defendants violated the CFPB’s 2017 consent order with the corporate defendants. The consent order settled the CFPB’s claims that TransUnion had engaged in deceptive marketing of credit-related products. In addition to requiring payment of $13.9

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 20, 2017

Those who’ve followed the Model Bank Awards closely will note that our awards format has evolved to follow the market over the years. Operations and Risk. And while space is filling up fast, there’s still time to register for 2017 Innovation & Insight Day , April 4, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts. Customer Experience.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

In his eight years at the startup, he helped grow market capitalization to 11 billion euros from 2010 to 2017. Dropbox leader Adrienne Gormley will become the chief operating officer. The company operates in 25 countries and employs more than 1,500 people. s break from the European Union, N26 ended operations there. .

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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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JUNE 23, 2017

Ant Financial, the financial arm of Alibaba specializing in wealth management, nearly doubled its profit during its 2017 fiscal year in part because of its mobile payments feature. Ant Financial operates Alipay, the popular mobile payments service in China. trillion mobile payments market in China.

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