South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example. The Banking Innovation Playbook – Step 1: Find a Niche Kim looked at the market and knew he needed traction in at least a single segment where he could create a brand and a following for Gentle Monster. Leveraging social media, Gentle Monster started to get traction.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 15, 2023

It turns out that confidence is more valuable than capital. While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. The ratio would provide a bank’s current core capital position to risk-adjusted assets.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

and Andrew Pforzheimer, former CEO of the Barcelona and Bartaco brands. Greg Golkin, managing partner at Kitchen Fund, is named as president. His fund has invested in brands including Sweetgreen, Curry Up Now and The Hummus & Pita Co. Listed as co-CEOs are David Pace, chairman of the board at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Domio , a startup that designs and rents apartment hotels, has raised $100 million in funding to expand both nationally and globally to 25 markets by 2020, according to reports on Tuesday (Dec. The company’s Series B round was led by GGV Capital. The funding round closed in late summer. It is currently in 12 markets.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

Amazon has its eyes on expansion for its Whole Foods brand in closed Sears and Kmart stores, according to a report by Yahoo! For example, Whole Foods managers went to a site in Utah that used to be a Kmart. The recent woes of Sears and other struggling retailers are seen as an opportunity for the online retail giant.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Kenny Tsang , managing director at cross-border payments service provider PingPong , told Karen Webster that merchants must be ready — and must execute well. Tsang said that with holiday shopping pulled forward, the biggest issue many sellers will face is how to manage their inventory. Small And Nimble > Big And Slow.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2019

Credential and digital identity management solution company Dashlane announced Thursday (May 30) it raised $110 million in funding and appointed Joy Howard as chief marketing officer. Existing investors Rho Ventures, FirstMark Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated in the round.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Alternative lender Prospa has raised new venture capital that comes with a prestigious label for the company. The Series B round is the largest-ever venture capital investment into an Australian FinTech startup, according to reports. Reports Wednesday (Feb. 22) said Prospa secured A$25 million (about $20 million) from AirTree Ventures.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A recent round of bank merger announcements and the marquee Capital One/Discover deal illustrate this mantra’s popularity. Management must invest in the resources necessary for best-in-class digital sales capabilities, and then they need to terrorize their team to hit aggressive growth goals through this channel.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) released results Tuesday (Aug. The combined company, according to management, saw 6 percent growth to $3.2 A detail of the pro-forma 2018 revenue contribution by segment shows 49 percent derived from banking, 32 percent from merchants and the remainder from capital markets.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2020

Apparel brand Gap recently announced a reversal of its initial decision not to pay vendors for canceled orders. Reports in Sourcing Journal said the company, which owns Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta as well as its Gap brands, has now vowed to pay vendors in full for canceled orders. Australia and Malaysia.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Corelle Brands has been around for a while — like 100 years. By today’s standards, it looks anything like an innovative brand. Corning didn’t invent heat-resistant glass when it rolled out its branded version of Pyrex. At the conclusion of the deal, both firms will be owned by Cornell Capital, which bought Corelle in 2017.

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In two days, you can hear from Chase, US Bank, Capital One, BMO, M&T, PNC, Citizens, Truist, Huntington, and more, a feat that can only be done at a conference of this caliber. A bank can build a brand that will slow margin shrinkage down, but it will not stop it. We sat through almost every presentation and took pages of notes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. In the process, they are capitalizing on a chance to drive loyalty and enhance the brand.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Almost every bank and brand we spoke with will increase their investment in these two areas for 2023. During the two weeks, there were over a hundred significant cyberattacks by nation-states on national and regional banks that you could watch unfold in near real-time (bel0w) at Gartner and Money 20/20. Big Idea – Trends.

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Bobsguide

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Zions Bancorporation is one of the nation’s premier financial services companies with total assets exceeding $65 billion. Zions operates under local management teams and distinct brands in 11 western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. Honorable Mentions – while this was a quiet year for M&A, we tip our hat to Atlantic Union’s acquisition of American National Bank and Eastern Bank’s acquisition of Cambridge Bank.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

the restaurant operator with brands such as Morton’s Steakhouse and Joe’s Crab Shack, has warned that customers who used credit cards at more than 60 of its locations may have been exposed. China Capital Crunch: There are reports that a “ capital winter ” is brewing in the country — defined as a slowdown in fund flows.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Capital One Halts BNPL Transactions On Its Credit Cards. Capital One Financial Corp is putting a stop to buy now, pay later (BNPL) transactions on its credit cards, calling the dealings “ risky ,” for both consumers and banks. But while digital shopping is transforming brands all over the world, catalogs aren’t vanishing completely.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Banks, financial institutions (FIs) and other members of the financial world are, thus, dealing with a rising flood of identity theft and application fraud, as bad actors look to capitalize on the email addresses, Social Security numbers, credit details and other information they have on hand. Around the Digital Fraud World.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The two firms today announced a new partnership as the private equity-owned food brand is looking to expand its customer base and upgrade its delivery services for customers. “As As a brand, we are relentlessly focused on reaching our guests on their terms,” says Darin Dugan, Chief Marketing Officer at Jimmy John’s. “In

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Bryant formed the Bryant Stibel venture capital firm in 2013 with Jeff Stibel, founder of Web.com. Bank’s Adam Kruis, senior vice president and manager of working capital consulting, and Jennifer Swenson, vice president of corporate payment systems, discuss how the bank ensures smooth implementation of virtual card solutions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The $20 million funding round for Australian alternative lending platform Prospa has set a record, according to reports, as the largest FinTech venture capital funding in the country. challenger bank Monzo, one of the nation’s few digital-only banks, raised nearly $25.5 Travel Expense Management. Soundtrack Your Brand.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

have capitalized on a sea change in how we pay. based merchants sell across borders, but that percentage lags behind other nations such as Germany and the United Kingdom, where half of merchants that sell goods and services online do so across borders. In eCommerce, the readiness is all, to steal a line from Shakespeare. Villegas said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

A chief financial officer and his or her team can not only spend hours managing B2B payment operations, but employees can also introduce risk into every step along the way. Sub-Brands. Software that manages invoices has existed for decades, but Tipalti takes an alternate approach: Its offering automatically processes the payments. “If

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

In this week’s Hacker Tracker , PYMNTS was joined by Andrew Douthwaite, VP of Managed Services for VirtualArmour , who shared insights on some of the biggest news hitting the cybersecurity space this week. Bad actors are constantly looking to capitalize on any bugs that are revealed and act quickly to cause as much damage as possible.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

UberMedia , a company known for transforming “mobile behavioral data,” announced on Wednesday (July 13) that it was launching a new product, Optimal GeoSpace, which the brand says will erect a “virtual fence around individual retail shopping areas, enabling retail marketers to fully capitalize on the actual footprint of a customer.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The headlines as of late – the ones focused on the impacts of the tariffs and trade wars between the two nations – have seemingly focused on the U.S. As the National Bureau of Statistics estimated, the Purchasing Manager’s Index slipped to 49.5, consumers as much as $1,000, at least as estimated by JPMorgan. off from 49.7

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Bobsguide

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Arun Thukral, Managing Director and CEO, AXIS Securities, said, “Our aim is to deliver simplified user interface to retail investors. AXIS Securities Limited, a subsidiary organization of AXIS Bank Limited, offers retail broking services under its flagship brand Axis Direct – www.axisdirect.in.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

“In some cases, excess demand for certain goods has been overburdening suppliers’ production capacity and draining them of working capital,” she said in the statement. The decision drew praise from Mike Cherry, national chairman of the U.K. Federation of Small Businesses.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

The company sources all of its food directly from 1,500 fishermen and farmers across the nation, using an app to negotiate with its suppliers. FreshToHome’s brand proposition has been to provide 100 percent fresh food with 0 percent chemicals — not an easy thing to achieve in India at a large scale.

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Accenture

MAY 22, 2019

I am excited to have Tim O’Donnell join our Payments team as a managing director and draw on his insights in developing this blog. Today, we are seeing a slowdown in commercial deposit growth broadly with flat or negative growth in pockets as deposits shift to the national banks. 2 Accenture Research on S&P Capital IQ data.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

Despite that increase in profitability, banks need to be mindful of how they manage their branch and customer base to increase profitability further. Likely, it might be a combination of the above, but setting a branching strategy should dictate capital allocation, branch layout, marketing, and staffing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

For weeks the FinTech industry has been managing fears and anxieties over the future of the novel alternative finance space. Find out which alt lenders secured $77 million in venture capital, as well as the other startups across the U.S., Metropolitan Managing Partner Paul Lisiak acknowledged this challenge in a statement.

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MARCH 11, 2020

For example, as reported by Forbes, auditor Grant Thornton wrote that “management believes” it can meet its financial obligations through February 2021. According to Carvana Chief Brand Officer Ryan Keeton, opening new markets brings an uptick in overall business. “We New Markets.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 4, 2020

All the capital flowing into the digital fintech space is helping to solve banking industry challenges. As the industry’s appetite for digital technology grows, the capital that’s been flowing into mostly digital-focused fintech is solving real industry challenges right now. SoFi/Galileo: This $1.2 customer impact.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

liquidators Gordon Brothers Retail Partners LLC and Hilco Merchant Resources LLC and licensing firm Authentic Brands Group, swooped in at the last minute to win ownership of the struggling retail chain in a bankruptcy auction with a joint offer of $243.3 But a consortium of retail property landlords, including Simon Property Group Inc.,

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