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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CB Insights

MARCH 20, 2019

From e-commerce to software to payments, several companies with $1B+ valuations exited in 2018. Using CB Insights data, we identified the startups with a $1B+ valuation that exited in 2018. We’ve also covered 2018’s 14 European unicorns , 37 Chinese unicorns , and 55 US unicorns.). Meituan Dianping.

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Kraft Heinz, one of the world’s prominent global food and beverage companies, operates Evolv through a team effort, involving food, startup and venture capital professionals. He said Fabric’s goal was to “change the game” in how businesses operate. Fabric launched an automatic fulfillment center in October of 2018.

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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

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 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. The automaker is also reportedly joining the Open Platform operated by Lyft for autonomous cars. Ridesharing.

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PYMNTS

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.

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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. Outside the US: 44% of the 2018 Fintech 250 are based outside the US. Please click to enlarge.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

home and fashion-ware retailer. based Wells Fargo and Malaysian group MUI Asia , it should be well-poised to utilize the needed funds from its working capital facility to meet its immediate funding needs. The retailer said the agreement did not constitute a cash injection from MUI Asia.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

It has four autonomous stores and is currently in the pilot testing phase with several retailers around the world. When we launched the Zippin platform for retailers in 2018, we removed friction from the checkout process. That’s why we have more operational public stores than most other startups in the checkout-free space.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

million in new venture capital (VC) funding. The company currently operates in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, with expansion plans to enter other new markets in the first quarter of 2018. million in revenues by April 2018 and currently facilitates more than 150,000 shipments each month. Monday (Dec.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

E-commerce giant Amazon mentioned its cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services, or AWS, 58 times, its virtual assistant Alexa 25 times, and retail just once in its earnings release for the fourth quarter of 2018. Perhaps this is an indicator of where the company sees its future growth potential?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

The idea kicked into high gear in 2018, when they attended a 10-week entrepreneurship course and won $15,000 in seed money through the University of Chicago’s College New Venture Challenge. “At They began selling chips in autumn of 2018. five-package “Shark Tank Intro Pack,” while the chips retail in stores for about $2.49

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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. Sigma aims to streamline business operations. Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

The online retailer has already been looking to raise capital at a valuation of about $2 billion, and the acquisition of ShopClues could help its funding efforts. The company receives about 40,000 orders per day — a deal with Snapdeal could bolster its operations to fulfill those orders. percent.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2020

Last year, RBC Capital Markets estimated that Amazon Go’s average annual sales at each of its nine stores would hit $1.5 A Bloomberg report in 2018 indicated that Amazon could open as many as 3,000 Amazon Go stores by 2021. Whole Foods Market opened its 500th store in Atlanta in April. million Amazon Go stores.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

His ringing endorsement of the luxury goods market, released yesterday as his annual letter to shareholders , was a clarion call to the frontlines of retailing during a decidedly difficult time. It had to close stores, like most non-essential retail, during the pandemic. No one ever said RH Chairman and CEO Gary Friedman was shy.

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Retail Online Marketing Study 130

CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Traditional retail is getting an upgrade. Despite the rise of e-commerce and mobile, the physical channel still plays an important role in consumer experience — and retailers are increasingly leveraging technologies to stay afloat. Get the entire 54-page retail report. Why Are retailers are pivoting towards cashier-less retail?

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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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

The home improvement retailer reported net income of $1.52 We posted solid results this quarter by capitalizing on delayed spring demand,” said President and CEO Marvin R. He will start his new position after the closing of the CVS acquisition of Aetna sometime in the second half of 2018. “I billion ($1.86 billion ($1.68

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

million buyers who operate in industries such as website development, logo design and blog writing. The company previously raised $111 million in venture funding from Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, Square Peg Capital, Qumra Capital and others. billion – of funds were lost to card fraud in 2018, up from $1.4

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

legal document, detailed how Amazon uncovered what it described as a “serious” cyberattack between May 2018 and October 2018. Doing so allowed them to siphon funds from sellers’ sales or loans (provided by Amazon Capital Services U.K.) Reports in Bloomberg , citing a U.K. and India in 2017.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The purchase builds on a strategic partnership and investment made in 2018, where Visa invested in the firm back then. Bain Capital Ventures: 2020 Is B2B Payments’ Breakout Year. Bain Capital Ventures’ partner Matt Harris told PYMNTS that 2020 marked the tipping point for commercial payments. “I Trackers And Reports .

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2017

With the vast number of bankruptcy filings and department store closure announcements over the past year, it’s safe to say the retail industry has taken a hit in the digital age. Big box retailers like Macy’s and Sears are closing at various locations, and mall owners are filling their voids with expensive upgrades.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. One of the biggest challenges these companies face is that many operate without a bank charter or license. why profitability won’t come easy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Retailers having a less than festive holiday season saleswise has become an increasingly repetitive storyline in early 2020, as the earnings results are rolling in and the revenue figures have been disappointing. The investment, however, doesn’t seem to have paid off – Target’s toy sales were about flat with 2018 in 2019.

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Retail Branding Report US 130

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Retailers having a less than festive holiday season saleswise has become an increasingly repetitive storyline in early 2020, as the earnings results are rolling in and the revenue figures have been disappointing. The investment, however, doesn’t seem to have paid off – Target’s toy sales were about flat with 2018 in 2019.

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Retail Branding Report US 130

BankUnderground

JULY 20, 2022

These are unlikely to work in the same fashion as rate cuts in positive territory, because of difficulties with charging negative interest rates on retail deposits, and because of banks’ negative return on excess liquidity. Over the past decade, several central banks have cut policy rates below zero. Four key results.

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Accenture

JULY 10, 2019

A similar question can be asked of traditional retail and commercial banks. Between 2015 and 2018, traditional retail and commercial banks spent some US$1 trillion globally on efforts to transform their IT through technologies like cloud, AI-powered analytics, and agile software development.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Lightspeed Ventures, iFly.vc, Silicon Valley Bank and Goodwater Capital were participants in the investment, Deal Street Asia reported. In separate news, Indian eCommerce grocery store operator Bigbasket notched $150 million a round of venture funding per news last May. It has reportedly notched funding in a March 2019 Series A+ round.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

Rent-A-Center ‘s decision to sell itself to Vintage Capital comes amid a continuing expansion of so-called “alt lending” options for consumers, which could make it more difficult for the chain to reinvent itself as it becomes a private company under its new ownership. Vintage also owns rent-to-own operation Buddy’s Home Furnishings.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

12) said Sequoia Capital, Burda Principal Investments and Sofina participated in the Series D funding round, while existing backers also joined. Reports in Tech In Asia on Tuesday (Feb. Temasek and EDBI, both Singapore-based state-linked funds, invested in the round as well. The company’s revenue hit $1.3

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Here’s the news: Beijing-based Babytree, which was founded in 2007 and “operates an online platform for parents to exchange know-how, shop for baby goods and purchase early education services,” recently launched its IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Contextual commerce is a retail practice centered around discovery. Trend Growth.

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