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Pilot Raises $60 Million To Help SMBs Modernize Finances

PYMNTS

The round, headed up by Sequoia Capital , doubled the company’s total funding to $120 million, the release stated. Pilot will use the money to help boost its back-office services that remove distractions in order to help companies focus more on business, the release stated.

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Financial Conferences this Fall Showcasing New Ideas and Innovation

William Mills

Between September and October, we’ll see a host of new companies, ideas and innovation, and we’ll hear from the “experts” on those issues we need to pay attention to in 2017. While many claim to have a better platform or process, very few companies can take an idea to mainstream successfully. MBA Annual. Money 20/20.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. Moreover, as more and more companies raise large equity rounds, they’re also choosing to delay public offerings. As a result, banks are facing dropping IPO profits.

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $330 Million Week Ending Jan 15

Fintech Labs Insights

The year continues its blistering pace with 28 companies worldwide raising new funds this week, the biggest number since we began tracking in July 2014. Year-to-date fintech companies have raised $450 million in new equity, 67% more than the $270 million raised in the first half of January 2015. Millennial saving & investing app.

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Innovation in the Asset Management industry

Tefkin

Traditional asset management companies are increasingly facing competition on both sides of the performance scale. Companies such as Betterment (disclosure, Anthemis is an investor & I am a customer) make investing in a diversified portfolio of ETFs easy and provide additional services such as automated rebalancing and tax optimisation.

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What Big Real Estate Is Saying About WeWork

CB Insights

Surprisingly, a fair majority of these conversations paint the company in a positive light, expressing enthusiasm for WeWork as a tenant. Others grudgingly admit WeWork as a competitor, or have recalibrated their enthusiasm for the company over time. Some tout the company’s positives as a tenant.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

CB Insights

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. We dive into major food companies and their investments. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” the Future of food report. table of contents.