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‘Costco For Millennials’ Attracts Big Investors

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A popular eCommerce retailer, which has been called the “Costco for millennials,” is attracting potential investors, according to The New York Post. With warehouses in New Jersey, Dallas, Las Vegas and Atlanta, Boxed offers bulk-sized products similar to those found at big warehouse retailers like Costco Wholesale.

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For Visa, She’s Next Is What’s Next

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30 kickoff in Atlanta will include access to experts from Visa and entrepreneurs operating both nationally and globally. Notably, at the Atlanta event, participants from Visa, Square and Yelp will participate in the workshops. An inaugural Jan. For example, Simon said, the Jan. India and Mexico.

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The key challenges facing the US mobile payments market this year

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Some of the challenges for the region were recently highlighted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, in a feature outlining the organization’s predictions for the payments industry in 2016. While mobile is a wide-ranging area, it highlighted a few key sub-sectors that are set to be particularly prominent in the US this year.

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How Home Depot’s Hedging Against A Downturn With Digital

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The Dow grew an average of 25 percent during that time period, meaning the Atlanta-based home improvement chain’s performance nearly doubled. Since it was real estate that had tanked the economy, the market more or less froze solid for all but the well-capitalized. However, Home Depot was hit especially hard.

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This Week In Insurance Tech: Policygenius Raises $100M, Lemonade Enters Pet Insurance, Nationwide Expands Digital Footprint

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Gabi , a San Francisco-based digital broker for home and car insurance, raised a $27M Series B led by Mubadala Capital. Capital, AngelList, Burst Capital, Canvas Ventures, CMFG Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Project A Ventures, and Securian Financial Group also participated in the round. .

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. Yet the Gonzo team has to give a shout out to the late entry of Texas Capital and Independent Bank. The Tech Award – Goes to Capital One. Best of luck in the next chapter, Chris!

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Fiserv Adds clearXchange P2P Payments to its Offerings

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clearXchange was created in 2011 by Bank of America, Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, U.S. For now, the Atlanta-based company made it clear it will offer both services. Fiserv last presented at FinovateSpring 2016 where it debuted its mobile account opening solution targeted toward millennials. financial institutions.