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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In the third quarter of 2018, over 40 percent of larger seller GPV came from sellers that started on Square as micro-sellers.” 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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JUNE 7, 2021

Retail investors, the new 800-pound gorilla, drove their new love interest, AMC, up 83% for the week. Commodities continued to surge as crude closed Friday at its highest level since 2018. While the major stock indices continued to grind higher and Treasury yields drifted in a very tight range, last week was still quite interesting.

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APRIL 1, 2019

Some providers are capitalizing on the concept by launching new services that offer access to premium content such as newspapers and magazines in exchange for a monthly fee. subscription box market by 2022 is £1b. The share of Americans aged 14 to 21 who subscribed to internet-based video services in 2018 is 80 percent.

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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.

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JULY 3, 2018

exchanges, companies are raising capital through the markets at an uncommonly fast pace compared to the past 20 years. Shares of the wholesale club retailer jumped more than 20 percent on June 28, reaching north of $21, Financial Times reported. BJ’s brought in $637.5 million by selling 37.5 million more shares.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Close the door and buckle up – retail automotive sales are getting an upgrade. Vroom said it will use the capital to invest in expanding its workforce, technology, operations and marketing, as well as products. automotive sales declined a few percentage points from 2018 to approximately 17 million vehicles sold last year.

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MARCH 14, 2018

retail sales continue to disappoint in early 2018, with an unexpected drop in February. On the upside, the “retail control group” used to measure GDP was up 0.1 Seven of 13 major retail categories showed declines. economist at RBC Capital Markets. percent, as opposed to the 0.3 percent, as opposed to the 0.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

Now, in addition to car and personal loans on behalf of retail and institutional investors, Zopa will introduce savings accounts this week, to be followed by the addition of credit cards later this year. Zopa received those funds from a group linked to IAG Capital Partners, a U.S.-based million) to become a challenger bank.

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APRIL 7, 2020

Jaimee Minney, senior vice president of marketing at Rakuten Intelligence says the coronavirus pandemic is introducing shoppers to the concept. Amish Jani, a partner in venture capital firm FirstMark Capital, agrees. According to TABS Analytics , 2019 was a year of growth for online grocery retail. 1 through March 15.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

True Food Kitchen , in one case, has created its menu around recipes that Dr. Andrew Weil inspired with anti-inflammatory ingredients and is mulling raising new private capital, Bloomberg reported. percent in the United States in 2018 to $167 million per Technomic data. Its sales increased 22.3 percent sales growth last year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

As the market grapples for momentum before companies report second-quarter earnings, rising wages may prove to be a headwind: Labor Department data indicates that the average hourly earnings rate rose 2.7 percent by the end of 2018. percent in June from the prior year. And, overall, wages have climbed a minimum of 2.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

Earlier this year, DoorDash received a $535 million investment from SoftBank , Sequoia Capital and Singapore-based sovereign wealth fund GIC , bringing the food delivery company a $1.4 The company currently serves around 1,200 cities in Canada and the United States, and plans to add as many as 600 cities in 2018. billion valuation.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

is in talks for as much as a $25 billion stake in a Mumbai, India conglomerate that is planning to launch a “ super app ” designed to offer a mega selection of retail products, sources told Mint. In May, Tata Capital, a division of Tata Group, introduced a mobile app that promised a better user experience for getting loans.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

With the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games not too far away, it’s high season for Team USA merchandise. Fanatics , a company that sells Team USA merchandise, has taken a novel approach to Olympic retail this year with a physical store in a major U.S. Fanatics is hardly the only retailer to take advantage of pop-up stores.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The 2018 Fintech 250 have raised approximately $53B in aggregate funding across 947 deals since 2013, and includes startups at different investment stages of development, from early-stage (seed/Series A) companies to well-funded unicorns. The market map below categorizes the Fintech 250 companies based on core area of focus.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Account takeovers are becoming bigger business for criminals — or, at least, the business of preventing account takeovers in the digital retail and payments realm is becoming an increasing focus of companies and security experts. The new capital will help fuel hiring and other growth, the company said. Account Takeover Growth.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Sizzle of the Week: Retail’s 2018 Rebound. Retail has had a rough couple of years, as most players that aren’t Amazon have struggled to cross the digital, omnichannel chasm. On the whole, with some notable exceptions, retail has landed on our Fizzle list more often than the Sizzle list in recent memory.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Early data that shows fewer people shopped at physical stores on Black Friday shines a light on Amazon’s retail disruption. Across Thanksgiving and Black Friday, retail visitors dropped a combined 3 percent from 2018, according to analytics company ShopperTrak. Internet retailers were up 2.8

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Since we would hate for anyone to go into the end of 2018 behind the eight ball, we decided to pay tribute to both a great bit and a great deal of news with our own top 10 list of the biggest news of summer 2018. It is not an exaggeration to say that 2018 has been the summer of movie subscription service MoviePass ’ discontent.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

2018 proved to be a major year for payments focused companies like PayPal, bank-backed P2P service Zelle, or even retailers like Amazon and Walmart, payments made up a large part of the market conversation. New Year, new executives -- that’s true, especially in the payments ecosystem.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Beyond BMW and Cadillac , the subscription market is growing as consumers and brands take note: Software vendors, too, are turning to subscriptions, according to the PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Tracker. in Q1 2018 to 64.0 in Q2 2018.The in Q1 2018 to 64.0 in Q2 2018.The in Q2 2018, a slight increase from 62.9

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

Amazon flirted with the $900 billion market cap club Wednesday (July 18) after completing a successful Prime Day shopping event. This year marked the first time Prime members could get deals during the event at Whole Foods Market. It ended the trading day with a market capitalization of $894.2 billion.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

Central Group, Thailand’s largest retailer, confirmed Thursday (January 31) that it is investing $200 million in a unit of Grab, the Southeast Asia ride-hailing startup. According to Reuters , citing a statement by Central Group, the retailer said it will “acquire a significant non-controlling stake” in the Thailand unit of Grab.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

User goes to Walgreens and registers the retail store in app. With small business, there is a tremendous need for access to capital. While this is true everywhere, this is a particular challenge in a market like India. MuniRisk solves information fragmentation for municipal market participants. 09:15 am MuniRisk.

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JUNE 1, 2018

As Claire’s Stores seeks to attract investors and potential buyers, the retailer has gained approval to close 37 of its brick-and-mortar stores, which are primarily located in malls, Retail Dive reported. In all, the retailer, which has filed for bankruptcy , has been able to exit 130 leases. operations.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Although retailers kicked off an earlier shopping timetable, toy discounts have plummeted this holiday season, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (Dec. In 2018, toy prices were slashed 31 percent, UBS Analyst Arpine Kocharyan wrote in a note, citing eCommerce trends tracked by Adobe. For boys, LEGO remains the top seller.

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MARCH 31, 2020

Despite the world’s markets being crippled by the coronavirus, Pinduoduo Inc. , million in the fourth quarter in 2019, a 91 percent increase from the same period in 2018, primarily due to higher revenues from online marketing services. million, up 130 percent from 2018. Last year, revenues totaled $4.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

Founded 80 years ago, the Boise, Idaho, chain has been owned for the past 14 years by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, according to Supermarket News , which first reported the IPO in March. billion in an IPO, but backed off amid lackluster market conditions for retail stocks later that year. Albertsons Cos.,

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JUNE 18, 2020

as well as Durable Capital Partners LP in addition to current investors, accounts and funds that T. The company said the funds will help with new offerings that assist its retailers in handling the evolved operating climate as well as provide diners with secure and accessible ways to transact. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. among others.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

As such, automakers are hitting the venture capital highway in droves. In the rideshare arena, InMotion , Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm, invested $25 million in a $600 million funding round for Lyft in 2017. Beyond rideshares, InMotion Ventures also entered the self-driving taxi market with a $3 million infusion in U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With more than $1 billion raised — and more to come — this week became the most lucrative for B2B FinTech venture capital funding. said the company saw BHL Holdings lead the second Series A funding round, while Nire Capital and existing backers Concentric, Seedcamp and Beazley also participated. Reports in Verdict.co.uk

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

A new study has revealed that retailers will lose around $130 billion in digital CNP (Card-not-Present) fraud between 2018 and 2023. This is something about which retailers remain undereducated, and has allowed fraudsters to capitalize on relatively low FDP spend,” explained research author Steffen Sorrell in a press release.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

BMO Capital Markets revealed the prediction in a note to clients on Wednesday (April 10), basing its findings on the demographics of those particular department stores, as well as the fact that there isn’t another Whole Foods store within a three-mile radius. Yet, it has failed to keep pace with competitors in recent years.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2019

A source told the Financial Times that Zopa will receive the funds from an entity linked to IAG Capital Partners, a U.S.-based It was given a year to raise regulatory capital, and prove it was financially strong enough to become a bank. based fund, and its U.K. investment vehicle Silverstripe. since its inception.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Market opportunity. Stripe is ramping up its private market investments. Expansion into emerging markets. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Focus on developers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Zalando, Europe’s largest online fashion retailer, is making an ambitious foray into the €38bn luxury clothing market. The retailer is aiming to capitalize on the growing trend of shoppers making high-value purchases on the internet. The company’s number of active customers rose from 26.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2020

Germany — Amazon’s second-biggest market after the U.S. All told, there are 479 Whole Foods Markets, 11 Amazon Go convenience stores, 18 Amazon Books stores, three Amazon 4-Star outlets, four “Presented by Amazon” mall kiosks, and five Amazon Pop-Up sites, according to Supermarket News. million Amazon Go stores.

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