PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

Shopify announced it has launched a new retail hardware collection to improve in-person shopping for some of the world’s fastest-growing brands and their customers. Digitally native brands want to build loyal audiences through retail locations, and we’ve designed the best products to help them achieve this success.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

True Food Kitchen , in one case, has created its menu around recipes that Dr. Andrew Weil inspired with anti-inflammatory ingredients and is mulling raising new private capital, Bloomberg reported. percent in the United States in 2018 to $167 million per Technomic data. Its sales increased 22.3 percent sales growth last year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

12), the two brands were standouts in a day-long eCommerce event that brought in a total of $38.38 billion tally is more than six times the amount that was brought in via online sales on Black Friday last year in the United States. The Alibaba -sponsored event also featured live-streamed marketing of 1,000 brands.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2018

Kroger is doubling down on its human capital coming soon — the massive grocery chain has announced it will be hiring some 11,000 employees across its various supermarket brands. Of the 11,000 roles on offer, almost 2,000 will reportedly be management positions.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

Rent-A-Center ‘s decision to sell itself to Vintage Capital comes amid a continuing expansion of so-called “alt lending” options for consumers, which could make it more difficult for the chain to reinvent itself as it becomes a private company under its new ownership. Vintage also owns rent-to-own operation Buddy’s Home Furnishings.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Brands (which now has a 3 percent stake in Grubhub), and has been expanding its market share in the United States, notching presence in more than 100 new markets last year. As has been reported, the firm has a partnership in place with Yum!

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

The move pushes Visa ever further away from cards and toward its goal of becoming, as management has often described it, a “network of networks.”. The company already has scale, having integrated with 15,000 financial institutions in Canada and the United States and recently made forays into Ireland and Spain.

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PYMNTS

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.”. based startup called Duffel.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

For now, at least, tensions between the United States and Iran have been dialed down a bit, if only in terms of missiles and firepower. 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.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In some ways, Belk department store is the last of a dying breed — and not just because it is a department store in the United States in the year 2017. Small and regional — outside of the Southeastern United States, most people haven’t heard of it. It’s even capitalizing on the department store drain that is ongoing.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2020

However, management noted on the conference call following results that volumes were up 10 percent, excluding the impacts of China and the U.K. In the conference call with analysts after results were announced, CEO Alfred Kelly said that in the quarter, holiday spending was similar to what had been seen in previous years in the United States.

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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.

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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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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. Companies are moving cash off the balance sheet and investing in areas like wages, capital expansion and innovation. 2 Accenture Research on S&P Capital IQ data. percent between 2014 and 2016.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are changing the way they manage their workforces in the age of Amazon: Walmart , for instance, is testing multiple versions of a new team structure called the “Great Workplace” in some of its locations. At the same time, it was reported that Walmart plans to employ $11 billion in capital expenditures this year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Its war chest has recently swollen with a recent $250 million funding round co-led by Coatue Management and DST Global. That followed a $535 million round led by SoftBank , Sequoia Capital and GIC earlier this year, bringing the food delivery company to a $1.4 billion valuation. And that big valuation has come with big expansions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

small hotel rooms are the rule, not the exception, and even here in the states the idea has been floating around since 1989 when the Microtel brand began first offering its half-sized, half-priced hotel rooms in Rochester, New York. In many locations outside the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. Now that cannabis is recreationally legal in eight states and medically legal in another 19 states, it may not be too much longer until it’s legal through the entire United States.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

All of the items in a Five Below are $5 or less (hence the name), and the customers it draws in are those looking to spare their budget, but still purchase items of a certain branded quality. But one store in particular has managed to capture a special share of attention, because of its location.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Shortly after 9/11, Time magazine declared the age of irony officially over, but by 2006, NPR was pretty sure it was alive and well in the United States – and by 2012, The New York Times said it was still firmly with us, but probably bad for us. I think the auction house knew it was going to happen. I think the whole thing was created.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

And hackers have managed to hit about 1,200 InterContinental Hotel locations in the U.S. — While BJ’s doesn’t have quite the scale, scope or name recognition of its rivals Costco and Sam’s Club, among the wholesale shoppers of the northeastern United States, the brand maintains a fairly devout following. Ready to jump in?

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2018

There have been a number of great commercial jingles in the history of commercials — tunes so catchy that they stick, almost forever, and remind us of brand names simply by nature of being so catchy. That jingle also managed to be oddly, and unfortunately, prophetic.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Innovations from 1995 to 2014 (with launch dates) Note: Ranking as of Jan 2014 Wells Fargo is first in the world to offer Web-statement access (launched May 1995) Security First Network Bank launches first full-service Internet bank brand (Oct 1995, disbanded 2002) PayPal launches first online optimized payment system (Nov 1999, bought by eBay in 2003) (..)

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Mastercard got pulled into its latest round of interchange fee lawyers looking for a quick buck, and contributing to the miracles-are-real file, Aéropostale managed to avoid liquidation and will live to sell another day. Dunkin’ Donuts operates more than 8,000 locations across the United States. Need to know more?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

On the upside, this year’s Best Picture presenters, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, managed to make the most of their second chance and got the winner’s name right the first time around. This new round of capital will help us further our mission of connecting communities around the world through last-mile delivery,” CEO Tony Xu said.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 22, 2014

In 1984 a record high 18,000+ banks existed in the United States. Between the end of 2010 and 2013, one new bank opened in the United States. . While we may see an uptick in the number of new bank charters from the near zero we have today, too many other industries with less regulation will attract capital.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

We recently spoke with community bank CEOs from across the country to gain insights on how they’re proactively positioning to manage risks and take advantage of growth opportunities in the coming year. Building a defensive balance sheet and maintaining our low to moderate risk profile is the key to managing through the upcoming challenges.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Then, there was the announcement of Square Capital’s partnership with Upserve , a restaurant management system (the same one that also acquired Breadcrumb from Groupon in May) to extend working capital to restaurants. Its pitch to the family is to use their local Mastercard branded credit or debit card to make those payments.

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CB Insights

APRIL 29, 2020

We round up all of our coronavirus-related content, ranging from telehealth startups to watch, to fintech financing trends, to tech solutions that could help companies manage through the crisis — and beyond — here. Funding, Venture Capital, & CVC. Funding, venture capital, & CVC . Venture Capital Funding Report Q1 2020.

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MyBankTracker

JULY 27, 2020

The three major exchanges are: Hong Kong Stock Exchange: Over 2,400 companies are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with a total market capitalization of over $38.2 Shanghai Stock Exchange: The Shanghai Stock Exchange was established, and is the second largest stock exchange in the world in terms of capital raised.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

CPG corporates like PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, and Campbell, for example, have invested in and acquired a number of brands focused on healthy snacking , while personal care incumbents like P&G and Unilever have backed natural and organic beauty brands. As consumer demand rises, businesses are buying into the trend.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

capital appreciation and dividends. The lion''s share of their growth, profitability, and capital have come since their re-branding to Open Bank in 2010. through its subsidiary BNC National Bank, offers community banking and wealth management services in Arizona, Minnesota, and North Dakota from 14 locations. Well done!

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

Thousands of firms are born each year – all promising the next greatest advancement in managing money – but only a fraction of a fraction end up going the distance. In the United States, for example, a stunning number of bankruptcies are tied to medical debt. The Neo-Bank Future. The need, she said, is there.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

Walmart is experimenting with a New York lab to tap into AI; it acquired Polymorph Labs for an unreported amount with the aim of leveraging its technology to make advertising easier for smaller brands, and recently purchased startup Aspectiva , a firm that observes shoppers’ browsing behaviors and aids in making product recommendations.

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MyBankTracker

APRIL 5, 2021

With each of these services, Acorns aims to make managing your money automatic. You can’t do much customization, making Acorns Later best for people who don’t want to actively manage their portfolio. Customers can withdraw cash from more than 55,000 ATMs across the United States, fee-free. Acorns Invest.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 23, 2018

Today, JPMorgan (JPM) is using its capital and scale to build an entirely digital bank. Branded cards. As of the end of July, JPMorgan Chase’s career website had 2,314 open technology jobs, 148 product manager roles, and 63 digital jobs. . Chase offers 5 branded cards, 3 no-fee cards, and 2 Chase Sapphire cards.

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