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Indian Tech Startups Broke Funding Records In 2018

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Indian tech startups had a huge year in 2018, but the way the money is being distributed has some experts concerned about the future of the country’s financial ecosystem, according to reports. Early startups were a part of 304 deals in 2018 and raised $916 million. billion in funding – the most ever. In 2017, Indian startups got $10.4

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Crypto Fails To Impress For Corporate Tax Payments

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to allow businesses to pay their corporate taxes in bitcoin. The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance released a study last year, finding a sharp increase in the onboarding of new cryptocurrency users, rising from 18 million at the end of 2017 to 35 million at the end of 2018, Invest in Blockchain reports said.

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Walgreens Fights Promotion Abuse With Digital Tracking

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Account takeovers and shipping fraud increased by 347 percent and 391 percent, respectively, between 2018 and 2019, and the pandemic has only exacerbated these issues. Fraudsters are also capitalizing on the holiday shopping season as merchants experience higher online shopping rates than ever before due to social distancing orders.

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The Fintech 250: The Top Fintech Startups Of 2018

CB Insights

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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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2018 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. This is clearly a turnaround situation, as the bank lost over $12 million in 2010, over 20% of its capital (ouch). But once they turned things around they took their deferred tax asset back onto their books and did three acquisition. Great job! #4.

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AltFin Shines As Investor Interest In B2B FinTech Continues

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Toward the start of 2018, analysts began to highlight the potential for venture capital (VC) to embrace the B2B business model. Total venture capital across the global FinTech market between 2010 and 2017 hit a combined $97.7 A report released this week found startups across the U.S., Much of the growth, particularly in the U.S.

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Virtual Mall Platform Finds Traction

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Its virtual mall solution is called LazMall , which was launched in August 2018. It points out that the mall sector has lost around 48 percent in market capitalization since January 2020. The COVID-19 crisis came during an already tough time for department stores,” said a recent research note from Bank of America Securities.

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