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JANUARY 26, 2021

Everybody wants to know what the future of corporate travel will look like in a post-pandemic market. There are several key pain points for SMBs when it comes to booking and paying for business travel that have existed long before the pandemic hit. Keeping Spend In Check. The first, said Sikora, is in SMBs’ lack of buying power.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing has received $500 million in funding from Booking Holdings. Instead, according to reports , Booking — formerly known as Priceline — will offer Didi’s on-demand car services through its Booking.com apps via an integration.

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Perficient

AUGUST 26, 2020

News organizations saw the enormous potential benefit and have been actively using AI technology to generate content quickly and efficiently. Back in 2017, Julia McCoy at the Content Marketing Institute, wrote about Content Creation Robots and cited examples from the Washington Post and Associated Press. AI Written Content form 2019.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

Having $1 billion in bookings and more than 200 destinations globally – those are big numbers, to be sure, but these are not stats gleaned from an airline. Sequoia and Goldman are returning investors, and new backers seen in this funding round include Boyu Capital, based in China, and Technology Crossover Ventures. and Europe yet.”.

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Bobsguide

MAY 26, 2022

Generation Life CEO, Grant Hackett OAM , said: “Working together with the GBST team, we have been able to improve and expand our financial technology capabilities to allow us to build out an innovative solution for the retirement income market.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2017

We are excited to be bringing Amazon Books to Bellevue Square in 2017, and we are currently hiring store managers and associates,” an Amazon spokesperson told Recode. The bookstores also act as marketing tools for Amazon Prime memberships. In Seattle, Amazon is reportedly opening its tenth bookstore operation. “We That’s not all.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

That option is not always available with the traditional suspects for business travel booking, like travel agents or online travel agencies (OTAs). As a result, Avi Meir sought to build a better business travel booking experience when he helped found Travelperk. That process is often slow and time-consuming.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2019

Some entrepreneurs are inspired to start companies because they spot unmet needs in the market: Frontdesk Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer Jesse DePinto, for instance, saw the amateur nature of home shares but the opportunity for something better than a hotel. When it comes to booking the units, the company takes a multichannel approach.

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Abrigo

MAY 31, 2016

Sageworks recently published Next-Level Accountants: Your guide to growing a firm of trusted advisors , a book that brings together many of the accounting and valuation professions’ top thought leaders to provide practical strategies to help firms continue to add value beyond their technical skills.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Kathy Strasser of IncredibleBank is evaluating marketing campaign management platforms. We asked several banking leaders how they’ve employed fintech to ramp up their marketing campaigns, hone their analytic strategies and gain new patrons in the process. Their ability to market and add banking functionality … is a natural fit.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

How do business travelers book business trips that meet their needs, while staying within corporate travel policies? Plus, these booking methods can be frustrating for travelers as well as administrators. As a result, Meir sought to build a better business travel booking experience.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

As data security and transparency become greater concerns across a number of markets, some services are already working to confront the challenges. Putting this into practice would call into question whether or not Airbnb could operate in several state markets — a win for hotels. Around the Payments and the Platform Economy.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

FlitWays Technology , a company enabling ground transportation booking, is expanding its B2B offering across Europe. 22) said FlitWays is launching its business travel booking tool in London, Milan, Berlin, Paris and Barcelona to address businesses’ ground transportation management and expense management needs in these markets.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Not every product launches smoothly (RIP Fire Phone ), not every new endeavor delivers (Amazon’s flirtations with offering a travel platform ended abruptly) and not every new market immediately yields. Unfortunately, our country was one of those where technological understanding and tech culture is low.”.

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 5, 2019

Over a decade ago, I curated a book about MiFID – the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 7, 2016

If you’re like most Americans , you have, and you likely were grateful for the time saved in traffic and at the store, or for the time or money saved in booking a trip. Technology can also provide tangible benefits to a business, and in many cases, those benefits are financial. Assisting with compliance.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2018

According to a press release , Yatra will link customers based outside of India — whose employees travel in the country — with Chrome River’s expense management solution as part of a broader travel booking and spend management platform, offered via Yatra’s Self Book platform.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Human beings have been saying the above, or some variation on it, for approximately three thousand years since it was first written down in the Book of Ecclesiastes in 935 BCE. No matter how advanced we get, no matter how innovative technological advances we add on — there is always a little bit of history repeating in there.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

After a 20 percent stock price decline last week, that price hit a 52-week low on Monday – a drop that reportedly sucked $1 billion from Lyft’s market cap. In our opinion, the battle for market share will be balanced going forward.”. By 1:55 p.m. EST) on Monday, Lyft’s stock price stood at $56.44. Different Models.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Commercial card startup Brex, which recently secured funding that propelled it into unicorn status, is augmenting its platform with the introduction of corporate travel booking capabilities. ” “Startups have a disadvantage when booking corporate travel,” added TravelBank CEO Duke Chung in another statement.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

I call that the internet of value, and is covered in depth in my last book, ValueWeb. This is based upon apps, APIs and analytics, with banks having the opportunity to be better positioned to be the digital platform that allows open marketplaces to operate using these technologies. is not about just the internet of value.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

He added that even if Libra never comes to fruition, it has already put a spotlight on the crypto market. “In In other news, Webjet, the owner of WebBeds, has announced the launch of Rezchain , a new blockchain-based technology that can find and eliminate discrepancies in hotel booking transactions.

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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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BankUnderground

JUNE 16, 2021

Galbraith (1990) : ‘the extreme brevity of the financial memory’ makes financial markets susceptible to unstable euphoria. Pandemics, finance, technological change. Greenspan (1997) : ‘regrettably, history is strewn with visions of such ‘new eras’ that, in the end, have proven to be a mirage. What’s next?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Consumers are beginning to express more preferences regarding their buying and selling experiences on online marketplaces, which are seeing an increased amount of competition in the market as they attempt to hold onto their customer bases. Technology and social media company Facebook is also growing more involved in the sharing economy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

The new products will bring Didi into direct competition with the Alibaba Group and technology giant Tencent. 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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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Executives are quickly finding, however, that rather than gaining valuable efficiencies from their vendor partnerships, technology options represent a huge execution risk. In fact, leaders are faced with navigating a perfect storm of suboptimal technology choices. Take Cisco , the long-reigning market share leader.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

We find the most effective solutions to prevent counterfeit are based on partnerships that combine Amazon’s technology innovation with the sophisticated knowledge and capabilities of brands,” said Dharmesh Mehta, vice president, Amazon Customer Trust and Partner Support. “We Participation in the program has been good but not all-encompassing.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The lead book-running managers are Morgan Stanley , J.P. Morgan and BofA Securities , with Deutsche Bank Securities acting as another book-running manager for the proposed offering, the release stated. ai Founder and CEO Thomas M. Siebel wrote in the registration statement. Should we succeed at that objective, we will have built C3.ai

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

10) a partnership with AI.io, the voice technology company, to launch Halo Travel, a travel chatbot powered by Priceline Partner Network. In a press release , WEX said Halo Travel will be the first app to enable people to book hotels and flights via voice commands. Users can conduct their entire travel transactions via voice.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

It will be a series of virtual market weeks to help businesses connect with customers at a time when in-person events are impossible to hold. These three virtual market weeks can help answer member and toy community needs. The first market week will be July 13 through 19. Books are also on the rise. 17 to 23 and Sept.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2017

Airbnb is considering a move into the long-term rental business, with Bloomberg Technology reporting that the company has asked McKinsey & Co. to research the market. has reportedly performed a competitive analysis of Craigslist, which currently dominates the rental market in many cities. McKinsey & Co.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Finally, looking at Canadian “fintech” (financial technology) specifically, funding was up substantially in the first half of the year. The 2019 Canadian fintech market map. Startups headquartered in Ontario dominate the table, with over 40 fintech companies from this market map headquartered in the Greater Toronto Area.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Gett purports to bring together the worlds of ride-hailing companies and corporate fleets, incorporating needs for booking, riding, invoicing, analytics and more so companies can order ride-hailing services. Gett is disrupting and transforming a fragmented market delivering ever-critical cost optimization and client satisfaction.”.

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Bobsguide

APRIL 19, 2022

3 platform to optimize costs of the bank’s ongoing, comprehensive technological transformation. Murex , the global leader in trading, risk management and processing solutions for capital markets, has accompanied Pekao on the transition to the unified integrating platform, slated to be delivered in 2022.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

Switzerland alternative lending company Tradeplus24 is entering the Australian market through a collaboration with Trade Ledger , the companies announced. Technology can remove barriers to more sophisticated underwriting that currently exists due to the document-intense nature of trade, he said. Reports Friday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Perry, and new fund Bramalea Partners, launched by Andrew Boyd, former head of global equity capital markets at Fidelity Investments. Chromo Capital co-led the deal. Also participating were Perry Capital, founded by Richard C. Loadsmart’s financial adviser on the deal was Goldman Sachs, while Paul Hastings handled the legal work.

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