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JANUARY 1, 2019

A robust supply of private capital reportedly is one of the main reasons for that, along with corporate cultures that are averse to public markets. But relatively high stock prices and access to more capital remain prime temptations, and there is little doubt that 2019 will bring more than few exciting — and telling — IPOs.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. Payments Innovation.

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MAY 23, 2019

When it comes to innovation, go to the source. has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. QSR Innovation. The PepsiCo innovation effort comes at a time of significant technology development in the world of restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs). In other words, PepsiCo Inc.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

Among the ongoing trends in retail is the funding for online used car platforms, and the ongoing rise of eCommerce and digital payments in Latin America. Consumers who want to sell their cars via that platform reportedly seek an online price estimate. “If The year 2019 is when we’ll see a maturity in that used car inventory mix.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

According to the new PYMNTS Order To Eat Tracker , the volume of mobile app orders rocketed 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, and the overall mobile order market value is set to reach $38 billion by 2020. The estimated value of 2019 restaurant revenue from QSRs, fast food eateries, drive-thrus, deliveries and more is $273 billion.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

A convenient and seamless ordering experience from online and mobile channels is essential for restaurant customers. Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) have heard the call for innovative digital ordering capabilities, with several major brands stepping up their investments in this area. Recent Developments From the Restaurant Front.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are attempting to square away increasing consumer use of online channels with their privacy and banking standards. This is also the aim behind several regulatory changes taking place in other MENA markets, notably Egypt.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It’s also the start of another football gambling season — one that involves mobile commerce and digital payments, and companies trying to innovate their way to success in this growing field of transactions. More Innovation. Such desire for speed is also helping to drive innovation in other forms of gambling-related payments.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

They will need to continue innovating these processes to stay on top of shifting B2B trends worldwide. trillion reported in 2019. BoxFox On Why Order-To-Cash Innovation Is Key For Businesses Expanding Globally. One study predicted that virtual or contactless card payments will grow to $4.8

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MARCH 18, 2020

percent year over year in 2019 – an increase that is overwhelmingly pegged to younger shoppers. So do markets, which are like organisms in that they follow certain behaviors. The 2019 holiday season provided a glimpse into current consumer buying habits, and nearly half of the 189.6 They Did What? million U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Payments in 2019 will drive much of the innovation the automotive world. Car sharing, too, will likely take on a more prominent role in 2019. That’s because both Uber and Lyft are expected to launch initial public offerings in 2019. The opportunity is clear. Vehicle Sharing. One reason to believe that? Car Buying.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

How do innovators hone in on a specific focus when new technology darlings seem to emerge every day? To answer these questions, Bank Innovation has gathered four innovators to share ideas […]. As an executive in the ever-changing banking landscape, what separates early adopters from followers?

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MARCH 14, 2019

Customers increasingly expect banks and other financial institutions to meet them where they are with full functionality, said panelists at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday.

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JULY 18, 2019

Online bank N26 is now Germany’s highest-valued startup with a 3.5 All previous investors from the Series D funding round in January 2019 extended their investment in the company, including Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Tencent, and Insight Venture Partners. billion valuation following a $170 million extension of Series D funding.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. This is only part of the innovation trend stemming from video games. Consumers are buying Tilly’s products online, as digital growth was up 22 percent in 2018. Apple has stiff rivals in the gaming market. Larger Trends.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Today’s announcement is the next big chapter of a $50 million commitment Mastercard and the Rockefeller Foundation made in 2019 regarding an assertive, strategic transformational model for philanthropy. “We must make sure that even as people have unprecedented access to technology, we don’t allow a new digital divide to emerge.”.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking.

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JUNE 12, 2019

In the era of streaming entertainment and online news, the number of companies providing digital platforms for content is on the rise. The index notes these kinds of offerings are becoming more common, and the global market for subscriptions is expected to have a value of over $500 billion by next year. million internationally and 1.5

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., Exagens Corp., Fintel Labs, iGTB, JUDI.AI, KapitalWise, OpenDoor Securities, and Operant.AI

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

still decided to postpone its listing “in light of currently unfavourable and uncertain market conditions, particularly in the technology sector.” Kaspi.kz, which is part-owned by Baring Vostok and Goldman Sachs , offers online payments and an eCommerce marketplace accessed through an app. stock market.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

To provide consumers with the curation of a subscription box or the flexibility of a rental platform, digital innovators are tapping into the subscription business model. The estimated market size of the sharing economy by 2025 is $335 billion. subscription app revenue in 2019 among that year’s top 100 subscription apps was 21 percent.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

One of the biggest shifts in banking that FinTech newcomers ushered into the market is the demand among customers for advisory services. Glover spoke with PYMNTS again about how this trend will carry into 2019 and what technologies might be able to help banks strike the balance. In 2019, it is about ensuring the FI has the right?

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JANUARY 6, 2021

In September, PYMNTS reported that the market, like many others, was beginning to shift into a digital mode for more eCommerce ability, according to Chief Digital and Innovation Officer Darren MacDonald. billion in 2019, with 66 percent of that number used to pay for pet food. In 2020, same-store sales spiked by 9.6

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as online merchants, are offering consumers all sorts of products and services through the subscription business model, from movies to tea. Some entertainment innovators are also rolling out new subscription services. And retailers are offering innovative subscriptions for all sorts of products.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

There were plenty of tailwinds that pushed the segment forward: A strong economy, healthy consumer interest in credit and advances in credit scoring technology were all instrumental in pushing more consumers into the market, particularly in the first half of the year. The Two Faces Of Consumer Credit. Resetting Mortgage Services.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Innovations — some more fantastical than others — keep emerging, though. The rise of new authentication methods is one of the driving forces in the growing biometric market. According to new research , the global biometric system market is set to grow at a CAGR of 14.6 percent between 2019 and 2024 to reach $65.3

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

Part of the growth in digital came from online marketing, Niccol told investors when discussing the latest Chipotle financials. This was all accomplished without increasing our overall marketing budget,” he said, without offering more detail. A “few dozen more” such lanes in 2019. Chipotle’s Digital Gains.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Filipino online payments platform PayMongo has come off a funding round with $12 million, according to a press release. The Philippine digital transaction market has surged as of late, with a 42 percent jump in value between January and April this year. The company launched in 2019 and had a seed round then for $2.7

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Credit unions (CUs) are performing well as the new decade dawns, with a recent study finding that CUs increased their loan originations by 29 percent from Q4 2018 to Q4 2019. percent in 2019, compared to 10.5 The new platform provides dynamic marketing campaigns based on members’ transactional, lifestyle and behavioral data.

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MAY 1, 2019

Google appears to be losing steam in the ongoing race to dominate the online advertising market, and competitors Amazon and Facebook are taking advantage of the stumbles. As revealed in Google’s first-quarter 2019 financials, ad clicks across the Google sites also decelerated to 39 percent, as measured in terms of paid clicks.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

With digital innovation in delivery and click-and-collect in its quick-service restaurants (QSRs), Yum! is still a business in transition, Gibbs said, and the company has made improvements over the last three years in food quality, speed of service, its loyalty program and upgrading its technology for online ordering as well as delivery.

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JULY 25, 2019

Banks need to keep this requirement top of mind as they compete against other FIs in newer markets, however. It is thus imperative that those seeking to expand into new markets adjust their fraud protection strategies to better fit local customer needs. Bringing a global fraud approach to a new local market. operations.

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MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. The drive-thru window, for example, first met the market in 1947 when it was introduced to the world by Sheldon “Red” Chaney, operator of Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

But before we shut the door on 2019, it bears taking a moment to note how much the world of retail has changed in the last year, a fitting capstone on a decade that has seen retail as the American consumer commonly knew it taken to the ground and rebuilt nearly from the foundations. A lot of these brands don’t have stores.”. And should be.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite. Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

As the coronavirus has led to greater popularity of eCommerce deliveries, Jumia Technologies AG is encountering new rivalry from upstarts in the online shopping and transportation space in Africa. I would rather grow the market than just try to take everything,” the executive said. “I

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