PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

In today’s top news, China is facing a “capital winter” of venture funding slowdown, the U.S. Chinese Tech Sector Faces Capital Crunch. China is facing a “capital winter” — a significant funding slowdown and drop in fundraising activities — after a venture capital boom and fall. billion ($2.5

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Banks need not fear large technology companies like Google or Apple taking their business. Digital banking continues to be the most convenient option for simple daily transactions, but branches are still necessary for the more complex ones And yet banks should not ignore the shift in banking habits brought on by non-bank technology companies.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

That Apple events are tightly produced headline magnets is nothing new. At an Apple device event, seeing all four hanging around the Steve Jobs auditorium is perhaps not quite par for the course — but it’s far from extraordinary, or even really all that surprising. billion apple device owners inside of it. No price was given.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted. The list goes on.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 22, 2018

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Following a recent backlash resulting from allegedly discriminatory underwriting methods for the Apple Card, lenders’ moves are facing scrutiny from regulators. Albert Chang, counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau‘s innovation office, said […].

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2019

Apple envisions an Apple Pay beyond its current role at the point of sale and P2P. If you see […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

The ecosystem was treated to a tale of two Apple Watches this week — and one wonders where the truth is, here, too. The first story was about the Apple Watch being a sizzle — a running theme throughout Apple’s latest earnings release. The Purge — Apple Watch Edition. Well, they might have been. If they had noticed.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

T-Mobile is one of a number of heavy hitters looking to jump on the 5G bandwagon, including Apple, with varying degrees of success so far.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

In today’s top news in payments, Goldman plans to launch a robo advisor for clients with lower investment capital than traditional customers, and Apple plans to offer 0 percent installment financing on iPhones bought with the Apple Card. Apple Updates Wallet App to Reflect iPhone Financing for Apple Card Users.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

Team members from Apple, Google, Shopify, LinkedIn and dozens more have used company-allocated work-from-home (WFH) allowances to purchase our desk. million from a venture capital firm to fund the business. Sales have jumped more than 800 percent in four weeks.”. With that, the idea for a company was born.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2016

Stockholm is one of my favorite cities in the world and has become a real FinTech innovation hub. There’s a capital gains tax of 30 percent, too, and a sales tax of 25 percent. Ever wonder why you’ve never met a Swede named River, Apple or North in Sweden? times the average Swedish income. Can you feel the Swedish Bern???

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

FinTech startup unicorn Brex has closed a $150 million funding round led by previous investor DST and new investor Lone Pine Capital, Brex said in a statement on Tuesday (May 19). It instituted a rewards program and integrated contactless payments with Apple Pay and Google Pay.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Never in the history of payments has there been such a media-frenzied, corporate disrupting and consumer-captivating moment as last week’s unveiling of Apple Pay as part of this week’s release of the iPhone 6. Apple shrewdly coopted its greatest weakness as an inexperienced new entrant.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2016

As documented in the December edition of the Unattended Retail Tracker™ , the results of a six-month long study conducted by USA Technologies show that just informing customers that a merchant or vendor accepts Apple Pay and other mobile wallets can boost overall sales by more than 36 percent. percent increase in total transaction. .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

It’s an inspiring story — and one that gets many an innovator out of bed to fight the good startup fight, even in the face of insurmountable odds. Google and Amazon and Facebook and Apple are all competing with each other — and many other Goliaths — over eyeballs and the revenue that follows them. A Goliath by Any Other Name.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Filipino online payments platform PayMongo raised $12 million in a funding round led by Stripe, and also including existing investors Y Combinator and Global Founders Capital, and new investor Bedrock Capital. Apple And Epic’s Battle May Head To Trial in 2021. Amazon Debuts Men's Subscription Shopping Service.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The maker of Fortnite has asked a California judge for the second time to reinstate its popular video game to Apple Inc.’s In a court filing, Epic Games restated allegations it made last month, when it accused Apple of antitrust violations after it removed Fortnite from the App Store. Here’s what we learned.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

Meal-kit giant Blue Apron has made some genius moves, but hasn’t really capitalized on any of them so far. Kozlowski hasn’t made a dramatic move yet to capitalize on Blue Apron’s high-profile partners or modest jump in business from the pandemic, but she should. Tim Cook, CEO, Apple. Linda Findley Kozlowski, CEO, Blue Apron.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2018

but it may be smarter for those startups looking to break into that market to look at other regions, Eric Wiesen, general partner for Bullpen Capital, told Bank Innovation. “In EXCLUSIVE— The march of mobile banking and payments continues across the U.S., In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed. It looks like it’s no harm, no foul for Apple. Canada and Brazil. Canada and Brazil.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Apple is on the cusp of a stock market first — becoming the first public company in history to capture a $2 trillion valuation. Apple stock is trading at about $446 as of Tuesday (Aug. trillion market capitalization — almost double where it was just two years ago. Will Apple make it over the finish line?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

“Other than a few cosmetic changes, the $500 bike is almost identical to Echelon’s $500 bike at Walmart.com, which has been available at Walmart.com since March and hasn’t had any noticeable impact to Peloton’s growth,” KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Edward Yruma wrote in a note to investors, as per Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Weak iPhone Sales Cost Apple Nearly Half a Trillion Dollars in Market Cap . Apple is still the most valuable company in the nation, but it’s worth $430 billion less than it was two months ago – primarily, analysts say, because of concerns that the new iPhones arrived too late, per news on Nov. Apple’s Services Shift Lacks Key Details.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2019

Apple announced it will unveil its next generation of iPhones along with other products at a launch event scheduled for Sept. Invitations were tagged “by innovation only” although Apple isn’t expected to change the basic iPhone design. The new iPhones are said to be critical to Apple’s holiday quarter. local time.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

However, the Journal cited unnamed sources as saying that the London-based Barclays is also bidding for GM’s card business, while current issuer Capital One is unlikely to let the account go without a fight. Goldman has already been pushing into consumer credit, most notably with its 2019 team-up with Apple on the Apple Card.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

According Digi-Capital , which tracks AR investments, China-based funding for augmented reality and computer vision technologies hit $3.9 There was no immediate apples-to-apples comparison for North America, but the company’s managing director, Tim Merel, wrote that “North American augmented and virtual reality investment fell from nearly $1.5

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Chris Skinner

JULY 21, 2017

Really easy to work with, the company is the chosen system for many other innovative companies including Kickstarter and Apple Pay, and valued at almost $10 billion by the end of 2016. These companies include firms like Stripe, a six-year-old start-up that is the preferred code for building online checkout services.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

It will capitalize on Contis’ regulated status to help SMBs access support from FinTechs, including new payments and lending capabilities. Those cards are linked to popular digital payment services, including Apple Pay and Google Pay. There will be three programs for U.K. ”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Google is looking to capitalize on some momentum around mobile wallets. Apple Pay and Google Pay, of course, stand to be outsized beneficiaries of the shift to digital wallet adoption. And in findings related to POS: Roughly 8 percent of consumers who have Apple Pay enabled on their phones are now using it to make payments in-store.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Giant technology companies are moving inexorably into the finance business and could quickly upend the banking industry, according to the financial industry’s global watchdog.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

27) said it is working with IBM to develop the apps for Apple devices used by their employees across the bank’s divisions. Innovation is one of Banco Santander’s identity signs,” said Javier Cuenca, managing director T&O Area at the bank. An announcement made by the financial institution Monday (Feb.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Our recent webinar — The State of Fintech Q2 2020: Funding Rebound Reveals the Next Leg of Fintech Innovation — highlighted key fintech trends and deals from the second quarter of 2020, including the rise of embedded fintech applications and demand for digital banking services. Free Download: State of Fintech q2’20.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

It’s also backed by Sequoia and Zhenfund, and it’s one of a slew of companies trying to attract market share away from Apple and other tech giants. This will enable the capital markets to support the development of China’s core technologies and innovative capabilities,” the regulator said in a statement posted on its website.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

In this latest edition of the PYMNTS Weekender, coverage includes the latest on the Apple credit card , the race to create an everyday app, a deep look at meal kit retail as Blue Apron turns seven and the latest big twist in subscription commerce. Hacker Arrested in Capital One Breach Affecting 100M+.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

Successful innovation is about solving a problem or introducing a better experience – and at least when it comes to the restaurant sector, mobile and apps have delivered for consumers and the hometown restaurants that are reaping the benefits. As of last September, ipsy had managed to bag $150 million in new venture capital funding.

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