PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

You hear a lot about the new normal and stuff like that, but I really see it as banking at the speed of life,” said CarrieAnne Cormier , senior vice president of Retail Operations and Strategy at Avidia. As told by Citi and GE , the pandemic prompted a massive online shift as stores closed and consumers became wary about venturing out.

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Abrigo

MAY 22, 2024

The piece covers: Statistics on small business lending and its role in communities and the economy Traditional depository institutions’ changing market share in small business lending The challenges (financial and operational) of small business lending for banks, credit unions, and borrowers. trillion between 2019 and 2022.

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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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Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

The piece covers: The small business lending market and its role in communities and the economy Traditional depository institutions’ changing market share in small business lending The challenges (financial and operational) of small business lending for banks, credit unions, and borrowers. trillion between 2019 and 2022.

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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 10, 2020

58 Home is reportedly one of the country’s leaders in enabling consumers to find services online ranging from house cleaning to flower delivery. It is competing for market share against rivals that have more resources, including some businesses operated by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. The company is owned by 58.com

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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. As the trend proliferated, it opened up new opportunities for businesses to migrate their payment workflows online, too. Embedded Finance.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

GoSite , a digital platform for small businesses, has landed $40 million in a Left Lane Capital-led Series B fundraising round. Cove Fund, Longley Capital, Ankona Capital, Stage 2 and Serra Ventures also took part in the round, according to a Tuesday (Dec. 1) announcement.

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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. Vancity said it has agreed to collaborate with North Carolina-based nCino to implement the latter’s Bank Operating System, which will replace its 15-year-old network.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The world is quite a different place than it was six months ago, and with the 2020 holiday season fast approaching, the pressure is on to meet revenue goals in what’s been an uncertain year. There’s the experience, there’s the business operations, and there’s the technology and data that has to drive it.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The tie-up connects one of the globe’s top online shopping platforms with one of the globe’s top cloud point-of-sale (POS) firms, according to the announcement. Our customers must move to capitalize on the growing demand for online retail,” Epos Now Chief Growth Officer Barbara Staruk said in the announcement. “Our

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2019

I’ve connected a few of the dots from over the last decade that I believe will shape how the world will evolve in the 2020s, as well as the role of payments in driving that change. 2020 Trendline One: Rapid Acceleration Of Cash To Digital Payments. 2020 Trendline Two: The Rise Of On-Call Commerce.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Those innovations did more than just leverage digital and connected devices to make it easier for consumers and businesses to interact and to effectively blend the online and offline worlds. What’s less visible is the restaurant brand and the loyalty that comes with a more traditional online or mobile ordering experience.

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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

JUNE 8, 2020

The Saudi Arabia-based company hopes to take advantage of the surge in demand for its online delivery business due to the shutdown. In February, sources said BinDawood was expected to go public by the end of the first quarter or the beginning of the second quarter of 2020. GIB Capital and NCB Capital on the IPO.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Amid the myriad challenges of 2020 — the pandemic, the wildfires, the hurricanes, the social unrest — the silver lining might be that firms of all sizes have learned to pivot, to serve their end customers in nimble ways. CFOs get typecast more than other executives as being just debit- and credit-oriented,” Rainey told Webster.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

As COVID-19 leads more customers to purchase groceries through the web, Stop & Shop owner Ahold Delhaize NV is putting more resources toward online shopping operations. The company opted to speed up the expansion of its eCommerce channels and connect online shopping with physical retail due to COVID-19, Knight said in the report.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Office Depot is changing tactics in 2020, leveraging its strength in catering to businesses, schools, healthcare organizations and government agencies. In Q4, Office Depot said, capital expenditures totaled $27 million. In the same quarter one year earlier, capital expenditures totaled $66 million.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

IBM has purchased Expertus Technologies, which is based in Canada, according to an announcement, in an effort to strengthen its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in addition to its online payment strategies. Gojek’s apps have reportedly received hundreds of millions of downloads as of June 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

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. Mynt's funding round this month was led by Bow Wave Capital Management, a new investor. and China-based Ant Group.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

New Chinese finance rules will force Ant Group to comply with regulations to back up any payments, lending or other finances with substantial capital, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). trillion) in the year leading up to June 2020, according to WSJ. 1, and will have to apply for a license to do so.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Vroom , an online marketplace for buying and selling vehicles, has raised $254 million in a Series H funding round, according to a release by the company. Durable Capital Partners led the round, and T. Vroom said it will use the capital to invest in expanding its workforce, technology, operations and marketing, as well as products.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020, compared to the same period the previous year. The company operates almost 1,000 retail stores under names like DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse and The Shoe Company. million in the first quarter of 2020 from Q1 2019’s $451.3 million in the first quarter of 2020 from Q1 2019’s $451.3

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2024

This data is critical for pricing, capital allocation, and marketing. ” The reality is that banks should be much more granular in their ratings to allocate capital more efficiently. above), meaning many banks will have to eat into capital during the next recession by an average of $59,000 per million.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Thus far, the company has received $869 million from investors, with one of them being Centerbridge Capital Partners. The initial idea for the company was to improve the status of online health insurance ordering through brokers. Research shows that online health brokering could reach $31.3 The company wants to sell 39.5

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Efforts are afoot to repair the data trust deficit , while online financing promises to gain a new foothold. 1.5B: Recent capital raised by hotel operator OYO. 2020: The year California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect. As mobile-order ahead takes the field, tap-to-pay gains steam.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

HungryPanda is an online food delivery platform that serves the restaurant business. Investors in the round include Piton Capital, VNV Global and BurdaPrincipal Investments, as well as existing investors 83North and Felix Capital. and the U.S. HungryPanda serves Asian restaurants in those countries.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 6, 2022

That could be a mistake as the environment has been radically different since 2020, and many banks are mispricing their commercial loans and relationships. Making loans is central to your bank’s operations, and lending has a compounding effect on profitability. Change 1: Cost of Capital and Capital Allocation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

PYMNTS research on consumer shopping habits showed that 24 percent of all consumers say they have taken at least one of their routine shopping activities online and do not plan to revert to shopping in stores for this activity, even after the pandemic is over. More consumers are going online to shop and pay as the pandemic progresses.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

The Russell 2000 index shows 42 percent of small-caps are either just breaking even or operating a loss. The sole sector doing well thus far in 2020 is healthcare, which has seen strong shares from telemedicine company Teladoc. The number of small U.S. The number is the highest since 2010’s 44 percent, the index says.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

Menlo Park-based Enjoy Technology , the eCommerce startup led by Ron Johnson, former VP of retail operations for Apple, has raised an additional $150 million in Series C funding, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday (Aug. Prior investors include Riverwood Capital, Stamos Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Highland Capital and Oak Capital Management.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market is headed for more turbulence in 2020 as more of its popular platforms face potentially being shut down as the government tightens regulatory reins. Good operators got punished along with scoundrels.”. billion yuan (US$70.4 billion) as of December 2019 from a height of 1.32

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

Online grocery delivery service Milkbasket has landed $5.5 million in venture capital in a round led by Inflection Point Ventures. India-based Inflection was joined in the funding round by existing investors Blume Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Mayfield India, Unilever Ventures and BeeNext, according to Live Mint.

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