PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Despite the pandemic, venture capital dollars are flowing freely to nascent firms in Asia that are tackling the need for contactless interactions and platforms that match supply and demand — setting the stage for innovation on the other side of the public health crisis.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Capital One ’s domestic card business provided strong results and continued to pick up momentum, the bank said on Thursday (October 24). In terms of innovation, Fairbank said, “We remain all-in on our technology transformation and our progress continues to accelerate.” billion, an increase of $1.7 billion, an increase of $1.5

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Operational risk is rapidly becoming one of the most important threats to the financial system but is also one of the least well understood. But they are only one part of operational risk, which includes losses from any kind of business disruption or human error, including power outages or natural disasters.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Consumers, businesses and financial institutions (FIs) cannot wait to bid adieu to 2020, which has been one of the most trying years in recent memory. Many CUs have since leaned into these efforts with digital innovations aimed at a range of issues, such as tackling fraud or enhancing members’ remote banking access.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

There seem to be countless sources of collateral damage associated with the unexpected appearance of COVID-19 in early 2020 – the shutdown of production in China, the ripples through the global supply chain, the virtual zeroing out of the travel and events vertical and the carnage on Wall Street. An Opportunity for Innovation .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Chinese eSports provider VSPN has raised $60 million in a Series B+ funding round to help it expand its operations overseas. Investors in the latest financing included Prospect Avenue Capital, Guiotai Junan International, and Nan Fung Group. Lighthouse Capital served as the exclusive financial adviser.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Hong Kong’s travel and leisure booking platform Klook has closed a $200 million Series E funding round led by Aspex Management , with participation by Sequoia Capital China , SoftBank Vision Fund, Matrix Partners China and Boyu Capital , according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Female FinTech entrepreneurs are getting left out of funding even as record venture capital money is being pumped into startups. billion in the first three quarters of 2020, which is 20 percent more than the same period in 2019. Companies that did get funding received only 0.9 percent of total monies raised. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Not just any decade, but one that has seen unprecedented levels of innovation touch nearly every industry segment and almost every corner of the world. Only then, he said, can one get clarity about how those dots can guide innovators about the future. 2020 Trendline One: Rapid Acceleration Of Cash To Digital Payments.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

BDB offers conventional and Islamic business finance services, venture capital and investment advisory to small and medium enterprises across multiple industries in the Kingdom of Bahrain. TCS BaNCS will enable BDB to launch new innovative products faster.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Consumers waited on financial institutions (FIs) to innovate in an odd relationship that put business needs before customers’ needs. A separate study found that 88 percent of credit unions surveyed in early 2020 planned to invest more in such technologies than they had over the previous year. It was all on their timetable. Not anymore.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Crisis response, maintaining safe and operational working conditions, mitigating supply chain disruptions, maintaining liquidity, and deftly responding to shifts in the market have emerged as key focus areas for all businesses. If your organization is looking to capitalize on cloud technology in 2021, here are a few trends to keep in mind.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Belgium’s capital city is becoming known for more than just housing major international institutions like EU Parliament, EU Commission and NATO. The city was ranked as a strong innovator by the latest edition of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS 2016). The region is also home to an active and fast-growing startup scene.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Globe Fintech Innovations of the Philippines, the FinTech arm of Globe Telecom , landed $175 million in additional venture funding this month. Mynt is the operator of the mobile wallet GCash. The company “made significant gains in 2020 that further cemented our status as the leading finance app in the country,” Ernest L.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Scan recent headlines and you’ll see that Equifax bought Ansonia Credit Data; Corsair Capital bought B2B payments solution provider MSTS, and OnDeck was bought out. Against such resistance, good, innovative ideas died and continue to die quickly, he said. Western Union has been public about its desire for acquisitions.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

Our cloud-based platform empowered our customers to quickly and safely move their employees to work from home with no disruption to their operations,” nCino Co-founder and CEO Pierre Naudé wrote in a letter to investors announcing the IPO. “We The company’s subscription revenues in fiscal 2020 were $103.3 million, or 74.7 million (70.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

announced that it has completed its sale of Cost Plus World Market (CPWM) to Kingswood Capital Management. Those individuals have expertise in labor and deployment, operations and R&D. percent in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic depressed key fuel sales and physical retail contracted in general. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Fitzmaurice added that “the new [pandemic] era of operating a non-optimized back office will affect a business’ ability to make fast decisions, which, as we have seen over the course of the pandemic, is vital, given the difficulties with traditional forecasting techniques. Enterprises have been onto this for a while.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While this partnership model remains popular, market volatility has once again created a need to connect more SMBs to capital as quickly and efficiently as possible. In Canada, one of those alternative players is Thinking Capital. This is a market that's going to be digital-first in the future," he said. The Digital-First Approach.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Singapore’s FinTech firm ADVANCE.AI , Hong Kong’s financial services company Sheng Ye Capital and Singapore’s firm Phillip Capital are the most recent in a series of contenders for critical business permits in Singapore. Winners will be announced in mid-2020.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

With trade shows canceled and enterprise digitization accelerated, 2020 was a big year for the adoption of B2B eCommerce. Retail giants like Flipkart ramped up their investments in online wholesale operations this year, with the pursuit of the "Amazon-like experience" continuing to be a driving influence for the sector.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Mastercard Accelerate works with FinTechs “through all stages of growth and transformation — market entry, expansion, product development, diversification and innovation,” the firm said. Mastercard is thrilled to partner with some of the world’s most innovative startups to transform the future of commerce.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Gan Chee Yen, chairman-designate of the consortium, told Deal Street Asia the consortium “represents the combined strengths of some of Singapore’s most established companies” and would work to cater to the needs of digital natives, the gig economy, the silver generation and SMBs operating in different industries.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The year 2020 began inconspicuously — but in a few short weeks, everything changed. For the corporate card, 2020 has been a season for dramatic shifts in how the payment tool is used and the value it adds to the enterprise. It’s a shift that will almost certainly continue into the autumn and winter months towards the closure of 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Fraud was red-hot in 2020. Well-funded and organized fraud operations, meanwhile, continued to amass more capital, manpower and technology. For the benefit of these businesses, my hope is that they recognize that they can no longer afford to continue operating at the status quo. 2020 was a tough enough year already.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

percent of overall orders in Q3 2020 in contrast to 67.3 million orders in Q3 2020, marking a jump of 84.4 Carvana, which sells both used and new cars, has been one of the main innovators in the space, with its high-profile vending machines in several major markets. percent in Q3 2019. Those repeat shoppers made 11.3

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

At the dawn of 2020, commercial cards made up only a fraction of overall B2B payments volume, even as corporates continued their slow-but-sure payments digitization efforts away from the paper check. For buyers, of course, there is the added capital float and opportunity to enhance spend visibility and control. Easing Cash Flow Pains.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

There is an out-and-out frenzy to capitalize on the pandemic-fueled digital shift that gave consumers few options for accessing products and services over the last twelve weeks. Innovators with better tech will appear and — literally overnight — snatch your customers out of your calcified incumbent arms and build scale, they say.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

FinTech GoCardless has raised $95 million in a Series F funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Resilience has been put to the test in 2020, and small businesses have shown the world what the word really means. Small Business Solutions and Karen Webster how payments innovation will play a critical role in their digital-first 2021.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

While 2020 has been a monumental year for B2B payments digitization and innovation, plenty of friction still exists in the way corporate buyers pay their suppliers. Solutions like commercial and virtual card products, for instance, assure buyers the ability to extend capital float while accelerating payment to vendors.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

This week’s exploration of the latest in payment rail innovation finds industry heavyweights like Visa, SWIFT and NACHA eyeing speed and data to add value to both new and legacy payment infrastructures. Visa has joined the pilot Phixius program operated by NACHA, the companies recently revealed. Visa Joins NACHA Pilot.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

PYMNTS’ June 2020 How We Eat Tracker notes that, “Amazon, Target and Walmart were already well-positioned to adapt to this new digital reality, as they all had robust mobile and online ordering operations long before the pandemic hit. Adapt, Pivot and Innovate’.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Take a look at how they operated before the pandemic. Then there was the dependency on shipping, and warehouses, and related reliability issues — and the mall owner who took the time and capital to drive foot traffic. For eCommerce Amazon touched just north of 50 percent for Q1 2020 in eCommerce market share (51.2 percent.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

1.5B: Recent capital raised by hotel operator OYO. 2020: The year California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect. Efforts are afoot to repair the data trust deficit , while online financing promises to gain a new foothold. And a relatively remote country offers global FinTech lessons.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Beyond Brazil, EBANX operates in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. EBANX is hoping for a full launch in Brazil at the beginning of the second half of 2020. EBANX became a unicorn – valued in excess of $1 billion – last year following a second-round investment by FTV Capital. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

The 2020s will experience a dramatic and rapid shift from the app economy the smartphone ignited in the decade we just left behind to one that connects people and businesses with commerce wherever they happen to be, and via any device they happen to be using, in real time – safely, securely and privately. The Connected Economy’s Potential.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Prior to his appointment as global head of TTS, Khaliq served as head of operations and technology for TTS. The round was led by M13 Ventures with participation from Torch Capital , Inspired Capital and Rogue Capital, alongside seasoned operators and angel investors Michael Vaughan , Stephen Sikes , Josh Stech and Eric Kinariwala.

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