PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Google Assistant can now help users book a car from Uber , Lyft , Ola , Grab , GO-JEK and other ridesharing services. Once you decide which company to go with, Google Assistant will then transfer you to that rideshare’s mobile app to complete the booking.

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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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JUNE 19, 2019

million in fresh funding, capital that will go toward “a B2B offering (that allows) individual travel agents at large online travel management companies and tour operators to offer a ‘seamless travel experience’ to their end customers, making the booking experience simpler, faster and cheaper.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

For purposes of this analogy, the “basement” into which bad mice are creeping is most likely your legacy payroll/expense management software and its possibly compromised connections. While technological advancements have revolutionized many aspects of operations, payroll and expense management are not [among] them. Fishing For BaaS.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

The image stems from about two or three centuries ago, when medieval superstitions were being seriously challenged by empirical thought, and the view has been reinforced countless times — even into the early 21st century if you look hard enough — by books, movies, TV shows and other methods of cultural communication. FinTech Partnerships. “The

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 21, 2019

Citi Ventures led a $28 million Series C equity round for client management platform HoneyBook, the company announced today.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

And managing that relationship, according to Boulevard Chief Financial Officer Greg Wookey , has the potential to be heavily impacted — positively or negatively — by a salon’s back-office processes. That means sitting seamlessly within the customer interaction from booking, through to payment and repeat booking.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Innovation in the accounts payable (AP) space continues to expand, with FinTechs looking to capture their piece of a growing market driven by businesses’ desire to digitize their operations. Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest examples of how AP innovators pull suppliers’ accounts receivable processes into the fold. billion valuation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Consumers are turning to their smartphones for everything from retail purchases to booking air travel and hotels to requesting refunds and other disbursements from online merchants. B2B Payment Innovation Struggles. The Mobile Disbursements Landscape. consumers now use mobile payment apps.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Airbnb managed to undercut a hotel industry that had been entrenched in global society for decades upon decades based on one simple principle: better lodgings at lower prices. That ethos still holds sway throughout much of Airbnb’s global operations , but for a few weeks in Rio, that book has been shotputted out of the window.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Enterprise spend management solution provider Coupa is expanding its offering with new features and a partnership with American Express, the companies said Wednesday (Nov. Coupa also announced the launch of Coupa Contract Lifecycle Management Advanced within its BSM platform, the result of its acquisition of Exari.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

For example, understanding what it’s like for a construction manager to order supplies from the job site for the next day is a head start on audience and persona definition. Understanding the needs of both a patient and the provider when finding a doctor and booking an appointment is a head start on task and user story development.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Smaller financial institutions will have to be more innovative and rely on third parties and as-a-service based solutions to specifically address the needs of the niche market they are servicing. Small Business Innovation. The top banks have the funds, technology, and development teams to make this happen. reached 31.7 businesses.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Mobile and cloud tech provider Deem , which works with travel companies, announced a new search engine with better speed and more functionality, a press release says, with an eye toward improving booking and the overall travel experience. Rizzo said the focus was on innovation. Deem chief executive John F.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Sports are big business around the globe, so it comes as no surprise that retail innovation constantly takes place within that industry, and in combination with payments. The company assigns a manager to oversee operations at each site as well as food runners if the venue’s staff cannot handle delivery. Working from the Bottom Up.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

podcast , we interview Jon Bostock, best-selling author, innovator, co-founder and CEO of Truman’s and learn how brands that innovate will win in a rapidly changing digital-first economy. He implemented a metric-driven management system that saw revenue rise 15 percent and profitability quadruple in his first year.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

College is also a notable location for the rise of other retail innovation — including technology that is changing the quick-service restaurant (QSR) word, mobile order-ahead. What’s more, Amazon Prime Student members will get special perks when they use the store. That leaves an opening for subscription commerce.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Mobile Innovation. College is also a notable location for the rise of other retail innovation — including technology that is changing the QSR word, mobile order-ahead. What’s more, Amazon Prime Student members will get special perks when they use the store. Subscription Rising. That leaves an opening for subscription commerce.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Some entertainment innovators are also rolling out new subscription services. And retailers are offering innovative subscriptions for all sorts of products. And digital innovators are providing subscriptions as a means of discovery for consumers. Disney’s anticipated Disney+ , for instance, will reportedly launch on Nov.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

At the broader level, commercial card innovators — both within the T&E arena and elsewhere — are pressing further into the spend management space, heightening the ability for businesses to control and analyze expenses as more companies tighten their belts and focus on recovery. Expensify Links Cards To Booking.

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BankUnderground

JUNE 16, 2021

In part this reversal responded to another historical lesson drawn from Reinhart and Rogoff’s 2009 book This Time is Different about the threshold of debt/GDP beyond which risks of further financial instability increased. This shows that history can deliver contradictory advice; the academic debate about this threshold continues.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. 13), the company has raised $400 million in funding round led by Generation Investment Management LLP and previous investor T. As The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Nov. Rowe Price Associates.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 8, 2022

In 2022, national banks are especially active in managing interest rate risk by booking floating rate loans and mandating that borrowers fix their rates through a loan hedging program. National Bank Strategies For Interest Rate Risk Management.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Gross bookings of $18.1 billion were better than the $18 billion analysts had expected, up 28 percent, while within that number, ride-sharing bookings were $13.2 Uber for Business has seen gross bookings surge to $1.2 billion in the latest quarter, while managed accounts was up by 75 percent year over year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

The services include wealth management tools, credit, lending and crowdfunding for serious illnesses. The company received $500 million in funding from Booking Holdings, with a plan to expand globally. Booking also owns KAYAK, Priceline.com, Rentalcars.com and OpenTable , sites that can also help Didi expand.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

Bacarai is working on an airline marketplace in which customers can buy trips and manage them through an online interface. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform Hotailers allows businesses transparency when it comes to contingent worker travel and making sure bookings meet regulations, expense limits and safety guidelines.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

It was a “Name That Tune”-style game called “Beat The Intro” that, while it isn’t a big hit these days, managed to put Amazon over the top. A year ago we were talking about the amazing milestone Alexa had passed: 10,000 skills. Today, that number of skills has more than doubled to north of 25,000.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the throes of managing balance sheets and loan portfolios and at the same time executing daily “run the bank” operations, bankers are faced with the need to continuously develop new customer experiences and scale enterprise capabilities. At the same time, tomorrow’s leadership will have little to do with “book smarts.”

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Wayne leaves the company in a great position to continue to innovate, create value for customers, and provide growth opportunities for employees,” said Park Durrett, Managing Director of Abrigo investor Accel-KKR, when asked about Wayne’s plan to retire.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Consumers want more than a transactional relationship with the companies they do business with," Petco Chief Digital and Innovation Officer Darren MacDonald said in a Thursday (Dec. The tool takes into account a pet’s age and breed as well as special issues like sensitive digestion or weight management. 10) press release.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

Uncertainty is at an all-time high, but what is clear is that business travel management FinTechs aren’t sitting idly. ” Continuing Innovation. For CWT, that means a recently-announced partnership with corporate travel expense management FinTech SAP Concur.

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JUNE 30, 2020

We use the insights and measures we’ve collected to arrange the experiences and capabilities under consideration into six manageable groups and, finally, to balance the portfolio to fit your limited time and resources. . Or should we go the other way and invest in a risky but innovative direction? Innovating.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

Used to be that managing a company’s liquidity and cash position was a matter of reconciling disparate bank accounts at the end of the day. Trade finance, they said, could help boost efficiency in cash management and supply chain (via dynamic discounting on invoices).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

But any business can find efficiencies in how they get the tangible products they need to function, and one area that is ripe for innovation between technology and cost-cutting is education, and specifically parochial education. In an interview with PYMNTS, Dennis Toohey, principal of Xperience Inc.,

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AUGUST 19, 2020

of OneStream XF this year, OneStream software continues innovating and enhancing MarketPlace solutions. During the last two months approximately, one new solution, Cloud Administration Tools “CAT”, and three updates: Account Reconciliations “RCM”, Task Manager “UTM” and Tax Provision “TXP” have been released.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

The effort provides innovative early-stage startups with access to an immersive six-month program where they receive guidance and support from MasterCard on scaling their operations and entering new markets and industries. “It’s not a random set of companies.

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